NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday gave an assurance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to complete the Delhi-Meerut Expressway by this March end, barring one rail over bridge (ROB).
\nReviewing the progress of the project for the third time in the monthly review meeting under PRAGATI initiative, Modi asked the officials whether they will adhere to this new deadline.
\nThe completion of the greenfield link from Dasna to Meerut has been delayed due to land acquisition related issues. The PM had earlier reviewed the project twice since the work started in 2015.
\n\u201cThe PM observed that earlier some or other reasons were cited for delay in completion of the project. He asked whether now the project will get completed by March end. The PM also asked whether any issue is still pending before the Uttar Pradesh government with regard to this project. The officers said now all issues have been resolved,\u201d said a source.
\nNHAI officials have maintained that 98% work on this 82 km access-controlled expressway has been completed. One of the two ROBs will be completed in the first half of March. The other ROB is likely to be completed by December this year. \u201cOnce the first ROB is completed, traffic can be allowed on this stretch. The NHAI is giving finishing touches to the works,\u201d said a government source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday gave an assurance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to complete the Delhi-Meerut Expressway by this March end, barring one rail over bridge (ROB). Reviewing the progress of the project for the third time in the monthly review meeting under PRAGATI initiative, Modi asked the officials whether they will adhere to this new deadline. The completion of the greenfield link from Dasna to Meerut has been delayed due to land acquisition related issues. The PM had earlier reviewed the project twice since the work started in 2015. \u201cThe PM observed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}