NHAI unveils smart cities along Delhi-Mumbai highway
The government is contemplating building smart cities along the Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway currently being built on a new alignment, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, and that a Cabinet note has been floated on this score. The ₹1 lakh crore flagship Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project is scheduled to be completed within three years and is expected to cut down the travel time between Delhi and Mumbai to just 12 hours. In the project, the government has saved about ₹16,000 crore on land acquisition front alone because of a new alignment and will pass through backward and far-flung tribal areas of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. A large number of roadside amenities and other projects can easily be taken up along the highways, ushering in development of the areas. The road construction activities have been planned at a faster pace now - at least thrice the rate of construction earlier and projects worth ₹15 lakh crore are being taken up in two years. Most of the 406 stalled road projects worth ₹3.85 lakh crore have been rolled out, barring ₹40,000 crore worth of projects that had to be terminated. The minister said that there are multiple opportunities in logistics parks, smart cities, smart villages, cold-storage, road construction, and developers can think of starting an economic activity. In addition, the ministry is also planning to convert about 2,000 commercial places like bus stations into bus ports and has stressed the need for pre-cast bridges and constructions.
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02 May 2020
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