Western Peripheral Expressway still distant
9 Jun 2012 8:20 AM GMT
The Western Peripheral Expressway project has a new deadline. On Friday, Harayana and Delhi governments have set 31 May next year as the deadline to complete the construction of the 135 km long expressway that would connect Kundli in north of Delhi with Palwal in Haryana.
The expressway, which already missed several deadlines, is expected to decongest various city roads as it would serve as a bypass for vehicles, which pass through Delhi on the way to other states.
The new timeline for completion of the mega project costing around Rs 2,700 crore was finalised at a meeting held on Friday between Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
‘It was decided to complete the project by May 2013. We resolved all issues coming in the way of completing the project,’ Dikshit said after the meeting. The expressway would link a number of highways passing through Delhi, besides crisscrossing various towns and cities in Haryana. It would connect NH-1 at Kundli and NH-2 at Faridabad via NH-10 and NH-8.
The Delhi government has already paid over Rs 621 crore as compensation for land acquisition for the expressway. The land acquisition cost for the project is being shared by Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. As per agreement, Delhi would incur 50 per cent of land acquisition cost while Haryana and Uttar Pradesh would pay 25 per cent each.
The land acquisition budget increased from Rs 167 crore to Rs 1,110 crore, officials said, adding that the Delhi government may need to pay more money as compensation.
In the meeting, it was decided that 52-km stretch between Manesar and Palwal would be opened for traffic within next 100 days as 90 per cent of the work has been completed, the officials said.
The expressway, which already missed several deadlines, is expected to decongest various city roads as it would serve as a bypass for vehicles, which pass through Delhi on the way to other states.
The new timeline for completion of the mega project costing around Rs 2,700 crore was finalised at a meeting held on Friday between Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
‘It was decided to complete the project by May 2013. We resolved all issues coming in the way of completing the project,’ Dikshit said after the meeting. The expressway would link a number of highways passing through Delhi, besides crisscrossing various towns and cities in Haryana. It would connect NH-1 at Kundli and NH-2 at Faridabad via NH-10 and NH-8.
The Delhi government has already paid over Rs 621 crore as compensation for land acquisition for the expressway. The land acquisition cost for the project is being shared by Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. As per agreement, Delhi would incur 50 per cent of land acquisition cost while Haryana and Uttar Pradesh would pay 25 per cent each.
The land acquisition budget increased from Rs 167 crore to Rs 1,110 crore, officials said, adding that the Delhi government may need to pay more money as compensation.
In the meeting, it was decided that 52-km stretch between Manesar and Palwal would be opened for traffic within next 100 days as 90 per cent of the work has been completed, the officials said.
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