NHAI begins soil testing for Delhi-Mumbai expressway in Faridabad

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the soil testing on the Faridabad-Sohna bypass road, which is an extension of the Delhi-Mumbai expressway to DND Flyway in Delhi. In Faridabad, work started near Chandawali Bridge and Sector 37, which are near the proposed interchange without disturbing the traffic. A third spot has been identified at Kaili Mod in Ballabhgarh. NHAI has planned the construction of a new ring road from DND Flyway to Sohna and an interchange to connect the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway with the Delhi-Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway at a cross-section of Sohna, Palwal, Manesar and Nuh. The project has been awarded to a Gujrat-based construction company, which will execute it in a phased manner. NHAI will build the 59-km-long highway in three packages - Package 1 includes an 8-km long, six-lane flyover from DND to Jaitpur along the Yamuna, while the second package of 25-km from Jaitpur to Ballabhgarh will be a six-lane, signal-free stretch. Both stretches will have six-lane service roads for local traffic. The third package from Ballabhgarh to Sohna, which will be 26km long, will have six lanes with an interchange linking the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway with KMP Expressway. The project is destined to be completed within the next three years.