Work begins on Katra (J&K) – Delhi Express Road Corridor; to be completed by 2023

Aug 12, 2020

New Delhi: Jammu to Delhi travel time will come to just about six hours when Katra (J&K)-Delhi Express Road Corridor is ready. The work on the project has started and it is to be completed within three years.

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said here stated that once this Express Road Corridor becomes functional, people will prefer to travel to Delhi by road instead of undertaking journey by train or by Air. The hallmark of this road corridor is that it will connect the holy cities of Katra and Amritsar, and at the same time offer connectivity for some other major important religious shrines between the two destinations, he said.

After completion of the survey by M/s Feedback Consultants Ltd, the process of acquisition of land is nearly complete and the work on the ground has started. Estimated to cost over Rs. 35,000 crores, the mportant cities through which this Expressway Corridor will pass include Jammu and Kathua in J&K, and Jalandhar, Amritsar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana in Punjab, he said.

Simultaneous widening of the National Highway between Pathankot and Jammu is also being undertaken, to upgrade it from 4 – lane to 6 – lane, which will also prove to be a great boon for the commuters between Jammu, Kathua and Pathankot.

–India News Stream