Centre’s nod to transform Nuh-Alwar freeway stretch right into a four-lane highway | Delhi Information

On November 3, 2008, then Union minister S Jaipal Reddy laid the muse for the four-lane highway mission.

In a publish on X, Gadkari mentioned, “This nationwide freeway part connects Gurugram, Sohna, and Nuh industrial areas. As a result of motion of heavy automobiles from Rajasthan to northern states, there’s heavy visitors on this route. Making this part four-lane will scale back heavy visitors and supply higher connectivity, which can promote financial improvement on this space.”

The present single-lane highway has been a bottleneck, claiming round 3,000 lives during the last 12 years, sources claimed.

Nuh Congress MLA Aftab Ahmed on Tuesday claimed it was the UPA authorities that had initiated works to transform route 248A right into a nationwide freeway in 2014. “However the BJP governments on the Centre and the state dropped this four-laning mission in 2018 saying that the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will care for the wants of the individuals,” he added.

The Congress had raised the difficulty repeatedly within the Haryana Meeting, Ahmed mentioned, including that he had written to the ministry in December concerning the Nuh-Firozpur stretch.

Ahmed, in the meantime, added that he met the Union Street Transport Secretary on Monday relating to a number of highway tasks about which he had beforehand written to Gadkari. These included calls for for constructing inter-changes on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway’s Ujina and Punhana stretches and a brand new bypass for Nuh metropolis. “The assembly was optimistic because the calls for are justified,” he mentioned.