Dwarka Expressway
national highway in India
NH 248-BB, also known as Dwarka Expressway, is an existing 27.6 km (17.1 mi) long operational, 16-lane, including 8-lane elevated grade separated and 8-lane service road, expressway connecting Dwarka in Delhi to Kherki Daula Toll Plaza at Gurgaon in Haryana. The expressway takes off from km 20 milestone of NH-48 at Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur adjacent to the IGI Airport in Delhi and terminate at km 40 of NH-48 near Kherki Daula Toll Plaza in Gurgaon in Haryana. The Dwarka Expressway serves as an alternate road link between Delhi and Gurgaon to ease the traffic congestion on the Delhi–Gurgaon Expressway section of NH-48.
The Dwarka Expressway corridor has seen rapid residential and commercial development in recent years, especially in sectors of Gurgaon such as 83, 84, 85, and 86.
History
Conception
The entire project, costing ₹7,500 crore, began being planned in 2006. After the land acquisition started in 2007-08, the expressway was established when the construction contract was awarded to JSR Construction Private Ltd and India Bulls Private Ltd on 1 April 2011, with a scheduled completion date of 31 March 2012. Contract was awarded in 2011 and 14 km out of the original 18 route were completed by 2016. Several more kilometre project routes was added to the scope of the project as an extension, by altering the originally planned route to the current alignment.
Land acquisition issues delayed the project for several years. After the Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of the petitions by the land owners in May 2015, the partially completed project was acquired by National Highways Authority of India and road was renamed National Highway 248-BB in June 2016, and the scope of the project was expanded by including the proposed Central Peripheral Road (CPR) and 6.3 km long section of Urban Extension Road-II (UER II) as part of the expressway.
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