The newly constructed National Highway-152D from Ambala to Narnaul is now open and accessible to the public. The highway is part of the Ambala-Kotputli corridor which passes through about 112 different villages in eight districts of Haryana namely Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Jind, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri and Mahendragarh. It further passes through Narnaul bypass and then NH-148B which meets Delhi-Jaipur highway at Paniala mode near Kotputli.
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said that this National Highway will write a new chapter in the development as it will prove to be a boon for the daily commuters. The Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds the portfolio of the Public Works Department, said the highway would significantly reduce the travel time from Ambala to Jaipur.
“This will lead to a major diversion of the traffic of NCR, which will also solve the problem of pollution. Also, it will provide the shortest, fastest and safest route from Ambala to Kotputli on the Jaipur Highway and will speed up the entire state of Haryana. pace of all-round industrial development and economic development,” he said.
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Chautala said that the National Highway is a six-lane access control greenfield corridor constructed under Bharatmala project, which is about 227 km long from Ismailabad (Gangeri) in Kurukshetra district to Narnaul (Haryana).
Chautala said the entire corridor is equipped with an advanced traffic management system. He said that keeping in view the convenience of the people, roadside facilities have also been constructed at six places in this ambitious project, where toilet facilities for the people, trauma centre, petrol pump, kiosk restaurant, dhaba, children park etc. Huh.
Adequate arrangement for truck and trailer parking has been made. Apart from this, provision has also been made for interchange at 16 places, while there are two main toll plazas and eight ROBs, Chautala said.
He said that about 2,000 hectares of land has been acquired for this highway project, on which compensation of about Rs 3,000 crore has been given to farmers and about Rs 6,000 crore has been spent on its construction work.
(with inputs from PTI)