Haryana Public Works (Building and Roads) Minister, Rao Narbir Singh on Wednesday said the Kundli Manesar Palwal expressway would be opened for public next month.
This mega project would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for which we have asked for his availability and time, he said.
The Minister said, “The KMP expressway was expected to be completed by 2010 before the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. With the efforts of Chief Minister Manohar lal, the work on the KMP expressway not only started but it was also decided to make it six lane instead of four lane.”
Rao Narbir Singh said that 135 kilometer long Kundli Manesar Palwal expressway would cover five districts of Haryana namely Sonepat, Jhajjar, Gurugram, Mewat and Palwal. Completion of this expressway would not only benefit the northern Haryana but also would ease the traffic in the national capital area, he said.
It would join the national expressway-II linking Ghaziabad and Noida of Uttar Pradesh, and would provide fast speed connectivity to the ports of southern states with south Haryana districts of Gurugram, Faridabad and Palwal, the Minister said.
Rao Narbir Singh also said that greenfield national highway project would be utilized from Sohna to Firozepur Zhirka, and Kurukshetra, Ambala gateway to Narnaul via Kalanaur Charkhi Dadri Road.
He said that it is the beginning of an era of revolution in Railway Over Bridge (ROB) and Railway Under Bridge (ROB) with the start of construction of 63 ROB and RUB started during 45 months tenure of the present Government. Out of these, 32 have been dedicated to the people of the state and work on 31 is in progress, the Minister added.
He further said that there are 592 manned railway crossings in Haryana out of which ROB and RUB work was completed for 190 crossings by the present Government which gave a new look to the road network of the state. The Government has planned that there would not be no unmanned railway crossings by 2020, Rao Narbir said.
He added that the repair work of roads in the state has been done with complete transparency in all the 90 constituencies of Haryana.