The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to float tender for widening the existing four-lane road to six-lane at an investment of ₹649 crore shortly. The project would be taken up under Phase V of the National Highway Development Project and executed under the Union government‘s Bharatmala Pariyojana. The work would be taken up from 37 km to 71 km of the NH, which has a total length of 2,807 km between Chennai and Delhi. The proposed six-lane road will have wayside amenities too. It was built earlier under the Golden Quadrilateral project to connect the four metros – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Now, the project has been taken up under engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode with a completion period of 24 months. The proposed road will have 8.75 metres width on either side with paved shoulders, besides seven metre service lane on either side of the highway, sources claimed.
