Nitin Gadkari says UER-II being developed as a part of Delhi Decongestion Plan with construction in five different packages costing Rs 7716 Crore
20 lakh tons of plastic garbage sourced from the Ghazipur Landfill to be utilized
as part of project: Gadkari
Union Minister
for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inspected the progress of the Urban
Extension Road Project (UER-II) in Delhi with Lt Governor of Delhi Vinay Kumar
Saxena, Member of Parliament Hansraj Hans, Parvesh Varma , Leader of
Opposition, Delhi Ramvir Singh Bidhuri , BJP Senior Leader Vijender Gupta and
other high officials today.
Briefing the media Gadkari said, “we are developing
UER-II as a component of the Delhi Decongestion Plan. The project involves the
construction of UER-II in five different packages with cost of Rs 7716 Crore.
He said as part of this project 20 lakh tons of plastic garbage sourced from
the Ghazipur Landfill is being utilized.”
He added that the
ministry also targets to completely utilise the landfill in construction to
free Delhi of these two garbage hills
Gadkari said
NH-344M (Package 1-3) will serve as an additional Western Ring Road in Delhi,
lessening the travel duration from 2 hours to 20 minutes to IGI Airport,
offering an alternative route for traffic from West/South Delhi, and Gurgaon
heading towards NH-44, Chandigarh, Punjab & J&K. It also connects to
the proposed IICC in Dwarka, improving traffic flow in Delhi, he added.
The minister said NH-344N (Package 5) is a spur to the Bahadurgarh bypass,
connecting NH-344M (near Village Dhichaon Kalan) in Delhi to NH-10 (near
Bahadurgarh) which eases congestion on NH-
Many of these
routes were in plans in 1980. The project was managed in way that reduced the
numbers of houses to be removed from 4000 to just 200 and they were also
compensated well as per the minister. The minister also announced that no tree was
but, but they were transplanted in the DDA land.
The minister
also spoke about other roads in advanced stages of construction and will
reduces distance from Delhi. He time taken would be 2 hours for Jaipur, Haridwar
and Dehradun, 4 hours for Amritsar, 6 hours for Katra, 8 hours for Srinagar and
12 hours for Mumbai and there will be lot of interconnectivity including that
from Asia’s biggest Airport at Jewar.