The first stretch of the big-ticket Delhi-Mumbai expressway is now open to the public, making Delhi and Jaipur closer by road.
Quick numbers
The journey will now take 2.5 hours to 3 hours from the current 5 hours as the Sohna (Haryana)- Dausa (Rajasthan) stretch will likely be opened for traffic from Tuesday.
The stretch between Sohna and Dausa is 246 km while the entire Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will stretch 1,380 km.
The Sohna-Dausa stretch will serve as an alternative to the busy Delhi-Jaipur Expressway.
Areas covered
The project cost more than Rs 12,150 crore.
The Sohna-Dausa stretch will cover 160km in Haryana and pass through Gurugram, Palwal and Nuh districts.
It will cover 11 villages in the Gurugram district, seven villages in Palwal and 47 villages in the Nuh district.
Faster journey
This stretch will be directly connected with the Mumbai-Delhi Expressway — from DND to Jaitpur, from Jaitpur to Ballabhgarh and from Ballabhgarh to Sohna.
Like the other parts of the expressway,this is an eight-lane access-controlled expressway which can be expanded to 12 lanes in the future depending on traffic.
Records of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway
2.5km 4-lane length PQC laid in 24 hours, the world record for the highest quantity of PQC laid.
50km single lane length, the world record for the highest quantity of dense bitumen laid in 100 hours.
The expressway will be the first in Asia to feature safe corridors for the movement of wildlife.
