Route, Completion Date & Construction Status: Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
The Delhi Mumbai Expressway, a 1,380-km controlled access motorway, was designed by the Indian government to connect two keys economic centres of the nation and reduce travel time between the two cities from 24 hours to 12 hours. The highway is expected to open on January 26, 2023, and the project's cornerstone was placed in March 2019. The eight-lane Delhi–Mumbai motorway would pass through five states & various greenfield sites that will be transformed into warehousing hubs in order to travel the distance between Delhi and Mumbai.
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The government also intends to construct a separate e-highway on the DelhiMumbai Expressway that will enable commercial vehicles like trucks and buses to drive at a speed of 120 kmph in order to address concerns about vehicular pollution. The country's logistics expenses are predicted to be reduced by 70% as a result of the e-highway. The Delhi–Mumbai motorway, which would be the longest section, is almost finished. Compared to 90,000 kilometres in March 2014, the nation's network of national highways currently spans over 1.40 lakh kilometres.
On February 12, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the first section of the motorway between Sohna, Haryana, and Dausa, Rajasthan. The first day of traffic will be February 14, 2023. The 246 km section will cut the present five-hour journey from Delhi to Jaipur to only three hours. The portion would be immediately connected to the Mumbai-Delhi Expressway from DND to Jaitpur, from Jaitpur to Ballabhgarh, and from Ballabhgarh to Sohna at a cost of around Rs 12,150 crore.
Segment of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
The Rs 98,000 crore Delhi Mumbai motorway, which is being built, would travel across five states: Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. The motorway will start in Gurgaon and travel through the states of Gujarat, Jaipur, and Sawai Madhopur before ending at Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. The greenfield motorway will assist in reducing the distance between Delhi and Mumbai from 727 to 572 kilometres.
The 160 km Sohna-Dausa stretch will travel through the districts of Gurugram, Palwal, and Nuh in Haryana. It will include 47 villages in the Nuh district in addition to 11 villages in the Gurugram district and 7 villages in Palwal.
Route of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway in Haryana
Starting from Bhirawati hamlet in Sohna, the motorway will begin at NH919 there. Before exiting the state at Kolgaon village, Ferozpur Jhirka, it would run side by side with the Delhi-Alwar line in Haryana.
Flyover interchange on NH919 (Sohna-Palwal) near Bhirawati Village, Sohna.
Cloverleaf intersection on the Western Peripheral Expressway (KMP Expressway) close to Khalilpur village.
Flyover interchange MDR132 on the Nuh-Hodal link, east of Ujina.
MDR135, which connects Bhadas and Hashin in Bhadas.
MDR131, flyover junction on the Moolthan-Hodal segment, west of Pinangwan.
East of Ferozepur Jhirka on NH22 is a flyover interchange.
South of Ferozpur Jhirka on the boundary between Haryana and Rajasthan is the village of Kolgaon.
Route of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan
Interchanges at NH45, NH14, and NH44 in Alwar.
NH25A's Rajgarh interchange.
On the Manoharpur-Dausa route, at the NH148 intersection.
junctions at NH21 and NH23 in Jaipur.
Intersection on the NH552 south-west of Sawai Madhopur
interchange at NH29 and Indragarh.
NH34, NH52, and NH27 interchange at Kota.
Rawatbhata interchange on NH9.
Neemuch interchange on NH31A.
Route of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway in Madhya Pradesh
East of Bhanpura-Neemuch is an interchange.
Southeast of Garoth.
Mandsaur has NH31 and NH14 interchanges.
Jaora.
Banswara and Ratlam.
Thandla.
In Madhya Pradesh, construction on a 106 km stretch has already been finished, as well as the By November 2022, all work will be concluded.
Gujarat's route for the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
Chhayan village's Dahod
Godhra
Vadodara
Surat
Navsari Maharashtra's route of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
Valsad
Vapi-Silvassa
Virar (Palghar district) (Palghar district)
Badlapur and Amane (Thane district)
Navi Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT)
With a branch to the Jewar Airport and one to Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru Port, the Delhi-Mumbai motorway will connect the national capital's metropolitan areas across the Delhi-Faridabad-Sohna leg of the corridor.
Features of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: sustainable infrastructure
Wildlife overpasses
India's first animal bridges and animal overpasses will be found on the future motorway, which will also be the country's longest new greenfield highway. These will be created so that the new infrastructure won't have an impact on the wildlife area. These animal overpasses would be located in the Ranthambore wildlife corridor and Mukundra wildlife sanctuaries in Rajasthan, with a total length of roughly 2.5 kilometres.
Eco-friendly features
Additionally, it is anticipated that the greenfield Delhi–Mumbai motorway will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 850 million kg. In addition, less traffic congestion will result in an annual fuel savings of around 32 crore liters. Solar energy will be used to run the expressway's lighting system. Two million trees will cover the road, and every 500 metres, rainwater will be collected and used for drip irrigation to hydrate the trees.
E-highway
There are proposals to build an electronic highway, which should lower the cost of logistics. This eight-lane motorway will only have four lanes for electric vehicles. For security, a 1.5-meter-high wall will be built on both sides of the road. Instead of on highways, toll booths will be installed in slip lanes.
Phases of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway project
The Delhi-Mumbai highway project, which spans 1,350 kilometres and six states, will be built out in four stages with a total of 52 development packages. Each bundle ranges in length from eight to 46 kilometres.
59 kilometres of the DND-Faridabad-KMP section (Number of Packages: 03 –1 in Delhi and 2 in Haryana)
Section of 844 kilometres from Sohna to KMP and Vadodara (Number of Packages: 31 – 3 in Haryana, 13 in Rajasthan, 9 in MP and 6 in Gujarat)
354 km stretch between Vadodara and Virar (Number of Packages: 13 – 10 in Gujarat and 3 in Maharashtra)
92 km of the Virar-JNPT segment (Number of Packages: 05 – 05 in Maharashtra)
Delhi–Mumbai Expressway Timeline
January 2019: Land acquisition for the Haryana segment was finished in January 2019. Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan have yet to purchase land.
March 2019: Nitin Gadkari, a government minister, lay the foundation stone in March 2019. The remaining 148 kilometres of the contract will be awarded over the course of six months.
September 2019: Beginning of civil work in September 2019. 2020 has been chosen as the project's deadline.
February 2020: The deadline has been moved from February 2020 to January 26, 2023.
June 2020: The final 33 km of the project's detailed project report (DPR) won't be ready until June 2020. While 162 miles have not yet had a contract issued, 497 kms are currently being built.
February 2021: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated during the introduction of the Union Budget 2021 that the contracts for the remaining 260 kilometres would be given before March 2021.
February 12, 2023: The Sohna-Dausa segment of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will open on February 12, 2023.
Cost of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
The Delhi Mumbai Expressway is a showpiece greenfield project under out under the Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-1 initiative that connects two significant metropolises. There are 52 construction packages being used to complete the highway project. Out of the 1,380 kilometres, contracts for more over 1,200 kilometres have already been issued and are in the process, according to a government announcement.
The cost of building the Delhi–Mumbai highway project, including the price of purchasing the land, is approximately Rs. 1,000,000 crores. To finance the motorway project, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) established DME Developers (DMEL), an SPV that will be entirely owned by the Authority. The SPV received a AAA rating from CRISIL, CARE, and India Ratings, according to recent information from the NHAI.
In a recent statement, the NHAI claimed that the SPV had raised Rs 9,731 crores to help partially finance the project. State Bank of India provided the largest portion of the investment, contributing Rs 5,000 crores. Punjab National Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, and Axis Bank are other SPV investors. With roughly Rs 10,400 crores, a 160 km long segment of the Delhi–Mumbai motorway that passes through Haryana would be built. According to the government, the motorway will benefit almost 73 villages and reduce vehicle pollution in Delhi-National Capital Region by 27%. Over Rs 12,150 crore was spent developing the Sohna-Dausa route.
