Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on February 12, 2023 at 3 PM. The 246 km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore and is expected to reduce the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur from 5 hours to around 3 hours. The 1,386 km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest and most advanced expressway and will half the travel time between Delhi and Mumbai from 24 hours to 12 hours. In a tweet, PMO mentioned, PM Modi's emphasis on the building of excellent road infrastructure as an engine of growth, development and connectivity in "New India" is being realised by the construction of a number of ongoing world class expressways across the country.
The 1,386 km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest and most advanced expressway once fully operational.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on February 12, 2023 at 3 PM.
While the Delhi-Dausa Expressway has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore, the entire cost of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be around Rs 98,000 crores.
The expressway will pass through six states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.
The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is expected to reduce the travel time between the political and financial capitals of India from 24 hours to 12 hours.
It is a 8-lane access-controlled Greenfield Expressway with scope for future expansion upto 12-lane Expressway.