PM Modi to inaugurate Gurugram section of Dwarka Expressway on March 11: Five facts about it

The Expressway also contains a unique 34-meter-wide elevated lane supported by single pillars that span 9 kilometres.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to inaugurate the Dwarka Expressway on March 11 and perform a road show that will begin in Delhi and end in Gurugram, Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh announced on March 2.

The Union Minister of Planning stated in an official announcement that the Prime Minister will visit Gurugram for the second time in one month. Here are the five facts about the Dwarka Expressway.

• The Haryana section of the expressway, which costs Rs 9,000 crore, is 18.9 kilometres long and runs from the border to Kherki Daula. The 10.1-kilometre section in Delhi is currently under construction.
• While addressing a rally in Rewari On February 16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Dwarka Expressway will ease the communication between Gurugram and Delhi's IGI Airport and the project will include four types of road transport: tunnel, underpass, flyover, and flyover above flyover.
• The Dwarka Expressway is being built in four phases, with segments stretching from Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur to Bijwasan (5.9km), Bijwasan ROB to the Delhi-Haryana border in Gurgaon (4.2km), the Delhi-Haryana border to Basai ROB (10.2km) in Haryana, and Basai to the Kherki Daula cloverleaf interchange (8.7km).
• Being one of its kind in India, the Dwarka Expressway will feature an elevated eight-lane access-controlled expressway.
• The Expressway also contains a unique 34-meter-wide elevated lane supported by single pillars that span 9 kilometres.