Decks clear for Rs.260 cr road to IGI airport

In a bid to clear the perennially traffic congestion on the Dhaula Kuan-IGI road stretch on NH-8, NHAI has recently secured eco clearance to kick start the mega project entailing an investment of Rs.260 crore. As a matter of fact, the nodal road building agency had proposed to build two flyovers, underpasses and foot over bridges intended to make the stretch traffic-signal free. The process, which the highways authority had started in January 2017, came to fruition recently with the Supreme Court giving the go ahead signal for the work and officials confirmed that the construction work will start very shortly. The NHAI had awarded the work in September, but was awaiting for the green clearance to the contractor but Delhi forest department took about 10 months to clear the proposal also a separate set of proposals seeking clearance from the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) also cleared the proposal.