New Delhi: Estimating that the completion of the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Dehradun Expressway in the near future will have to pass through NDMC and Central Delhi areas, Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari have directed NHAI to conduct viable studies for two new Gindi, from Gyarah Murti or Tocktora Stadium to Talkingum.The minister has directed that these corridors should be “included” in the dialects for the high corridor from Ina to Mahipalpur Nelson Mandela Road in Vasant Kunj, according to the minutes of a meeting that Gadkari presided over on June 4 and was attended by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena and CM Rekh Gupta.The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), who earlier invited dialects for the INA-Nelson Mandela Marg link, has received bids from consultancy firms to prepare a detailed project report (DPR). “We can include the provision of carrying the feasibility study Nitin Gadkari for two proposed links,” an official said. A comprehensive detailed report would be more helpful for better management of traffic, “an official said.On June 5, TOI first stated that NHAI would conduct a technical study to find out the possibility of a tunnel of a tunnel from Gyarah Murti, which is on a proposed height road spread to Nelson Mandela Marg in Vasant Kunj. The CM’s office had said that a feasibility study would be done for a tunnel connecting Sarai Kale Khan to the IGI airport.According to the meeting minutes, when the INA-Nelson Mandela Marg link proposal came for discussion, Gadkari “expressed concern” that the project would not completely solve the traffic crowd in NDMC and Central Delhi regions. Currently, the Delhi-Maryut and Delhi-Dehradun Expressway end on Ring Road near Sarai Kale Khan. The DND-SOHNA link of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will also open by the end of this year.The minister insisted that all these roads are fully operational, “There will be more traffic flows in the already crowded NDMC region and central Delhi”, as the ring road faces huge traffic snarl through day. It was in the context that he instructed that viability studies should be done for two new links.
