After the inauguration of the first phase of the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, all eyes are on the 109-km Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway. By January 2024, India’s first high-speed multimodal corridor linking the country’s road and rail networks should be finished.
Dholera, which till recently was a dormant city in Gujarat, is now being developed as India’s first greenfield smart city. It has been planned in such a way that the new smart city will be connected by all modes of transport – roads, metro, seaport and airport.
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Dholera, which is now part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), has already attracted the attention of investors. A new state-of-the-art airport is also coming up 80 km away from Ahmedabad. This will ease traffic at the already congested Ahmedabad airport.
Apart from the Ahmedabad Dholera Expressway, the over 1220 km long Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway will be another highlight point. Once completed, it will be the second longest expressway in the country connecting four states: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat along with major economic cities as well as refineries including Amritsar, Bhatinda, Bikaner, Sangaria, Sanchore, Samakhiali and Jamnagar. stretch. The construction work for this is going on as per the plan. A stretch will also be ready for use,’ a person familiar with the project told India Narrative.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team have put it on a war footing to upgrade and improve the country’s infrastructure. Several expressways are coming up crossing states across the country, changing the profile of India by boosting connectivity.
The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is the biggest project undertaken by the National Highways Authority of India, connecting the national capital with the country’s financial capital will be important as the country presses the pedal on economic growth.
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, under whose aegis the expressway has come up, said that like heliports, ‘drone ports’ can also be developed on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.
Multimodal connectivity under the mega plan PM Gati Shakti is one of the major focus areas for the Modi government. It aims to provide last-mile connectivity, which in turn will ease the movement of people as well as goods.
The launched multi-trillion PM Gati Shakti infrastructure program has attracted the attention of several global investors, especially after Apple decided to start manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India. Several multinational companies are monitoring the progress of Gati Shakti as the government shifts its focus to revive economic growth.
With IANS inputs