Dwarka Expressway: India's First Single-Pillar Flyover To Ease Delhi-Gurugram Travel — Key Points

Dwarka Expressway will be India's first elevated urban expressway and the first single-pillar flyover with eight lanes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the much-awaited Haryana section of the Dwarka Expressway among 112 National Highway projects spread across the country worth about Rs. One lakh crore. The eight-lane highspeed expressway will help ease the traffic on the Delhi-Gurugram route.

He will also inaugurate other major projects include the 9.6 km long six lane Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II)- Package 3 from Nangloi - Najafgarh Road to Sector 24 Dwarka section in Delhi; three packages of Lucknow Ring Road developed at cost of about Rs. 4,600 crores in Uttar Pradesh; Anandapuram - Pendurthi - Anakapalli section of NH16 developed at a cost of about Rs. 2,950 crores in the state of Andhra Pradesh. 

Kiratpur to Nerchowk section of NH-21 (2 packages) worth around  Rs. 3,400 crores in Himachal Pradesh; Dobaspet - Heskote section (two packages) worth Rs. 2,750 crores in Karnataka, along with 42 other projects worth Rs. 20,500 crores in different states across the country will also be inaugurated by Modi. 

Here are some of the features of the expressway. 

• The 19-kilometre long Haryana section of the right-lane Dwarka Expressway has been built at a cost of around Rs 41,000. 


• It includes two packages of 10.2 km long Delhi-Haryana Border to Basai Rail-over-Bridge (ROB) and 8.7 km long Basai ROB to Kherki Daula.


• The expressway will also provide direct connectivity to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and Gurugram Bypass.


• The expressway which will help ease the traffic congestion between Delhi and Gurugram on NH-48. It will cut the travel time by at least 20 minutes for 90,000 commuters who take this route every day, according to an NDTV report. 


• This will be India's first expressway built on single pillars and has several underpasses and service roads along the 18-km stretch. 


• As per an India Today report, around 19 kilometres of the highway's stretch falls in Haryana while remaining 10 kilometres would fall under the limits of Delhi. 


• The expressway will start from Shiv-Murti on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway, and end near the Kherki Daula Toll Plaza, passing through Dwarka Sector 21 in Delhi, Gurugram border, and Basai.


• Upon completion, the expressway would provide direct connectivity to the upcoming India International Convention Centre (IICC) in Dwarka Sector 25 in Delhi, according to a India Today report.