Thiru Baalu Opens Flyover At Rajeev Chowk On Delhi-Gurgaon Section Of Nh-8 Reviews Progress Of The Project

Thiru Baalu Opens Flyover At Rajeev Chowk On Delhi-Gurgaon Section Of Nh-8 Reviews Progress Of The Project

The Union Minister of Shipping Road Transport & Highways Thiru T.R. Baalu today opened the flyover at Rajeev Chowk across Gurgaon Sohna Road on the Delhi-Gurgaon Section of National Highway No. 8 on trial basis for public. The length of the flyover including approaches is about 1100 m. It is expected that the project highway from Palam to km 42.000 would be completed by December 2006 and from Rao Tula Ram Marg to Palam by June 2007.

The Minister reviewed the progress of the project of the Delhi-Gurgaon Section of NH-8 which is being upgraded to8/6 lane facility by National Highways Authority of India on Built Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. Thiru Baalu asked the Ministry and NHAI officials to effectively coordinate with the other agencies to ensure that the project is completed expeditiously.

The project is starting from junction of NH-8 with Rao Tula Ram Marg and ends at km 42.00 of NH-8 in Haryana. The total length of the Project Highway is 27.7 km. Out of this, 22.33 km would be widened to 8 lanes and balance 5.37 km would be widened to 6 lanes.

The project also includes nine flyovers/over bridges to provide signal free flow of traffic on the main National Highway. Besides this, there will also be signal free access to Domestic and International terminals of the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Adequate provision has also been made for safe passage of Pedestrians by providing four pedestrian subways and two foot over bridges at different locations.

Upon completion, the Express Highway will be operated at International standards with facilities like highway patrolling, 24 hours project surveillance, incident management, relief for accident victims, crane services, medical assistance and any other type of help required by the stranded motorists.

Concession for implementing the project has been awarded to M/s Jaypee-DSC Ventures Ltd. at the total project cost of Rs.550 crore on a negative grant of Rs.61 crore. With value additions amounting to about Rs.150 crore, the revised cost of the project is likely to be about Rs.700 crore.