These are strategically important for swift movement of defence forces along with agricultural, industrial and socio-economic progress of the region, the highways ministry said.
In a series of tweets, the Road Transport and Highways Minister also said he has sanctioned the widening and strengthening work of NH-334A to two lanes with a budget of Rs 227.06 crore in Uttar Pradesh.
Built at a cost of Rs 42,000 crore, the Expressway starts from Chand Sarai village in Lucknow. It will pass through Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur.
"The problem is there is China which has fully developed its infrastructure, so tomorrow if we have to transport big trucks, machinery then it would need at least 10-metre wide roads otherwise we wouldn't be able to do it," Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
During the event, the Prime Minister will also dedicate over 223 km of completed & upgraded road projects, constructed with an estimated cost of over Rs 1180 crore at different NHs for boosting connectivity to Pandharpur. The event will take place via video conferencing, it said.
"Gadkari is a great example of how a people's representative can work for the development of the country," Sharad Pawar added.
The group has now launched a new firm - SUNSUL Technology - that will focus on innovation in the green energy sector.
Addressing the annual session of industry body PHDCCI, Gadkari further said that the govt is working to develop an ethanol economy.
Speaking to reporters at the Z-Morh tunnel site, Union Minister Gadkari said his ministry is also building 20 tunnels of a total length of 32 km in Jammu and Kashmir and 11 tunnels of a total length of 20 km in Ladakh.
Nitin Gadkari also batted for adopting a low-cost broad gauge metro line to connect Pune with other western Maharashtra districts and proposed to rope in private travel operators to operate them.
Nitin Gadkari said that politics is considered as satta karan (power politics ) but this is not the true meaning of politics.
Gadkari, who is helming Road Transport and Highways Ministry, also said that while many infrastructure projects in Afghanistan have been completed by India, some are yet to be completed.
The expressway will connect the urban centres of Delhi through the Delhi-Faridabad-Sohna section of the corridor along with a spur to Jewar Airport and Jawaharlal Nehru Port to Mumbai.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he gets Rs 4 lakh every month as royalty from YouTube, as viewership of his lecture videos posted on the platform has increased during the pandemic period.
As per the official release by the Transport and Highways Ministry, the expressway is being developed at a cost of Rs 98,000 crores. The 1,380 kilometres long Delhi Mumbai expressway will be the longest expressway in India.
Drawing an inference with regard to rise in travel costs due to toll charges, the minister said, "If you want to use an air-conditioned hall, you have to pay for it. Otherwise, you can arrange a marriage on a field as well."
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said it was like a dream coming true watching Barmer emergency airstrip finally being inaugurated.
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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has developed a 3-km section of Satta-Gandhav stretch of NH-925A, as an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) for the Indian Air Force.
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