The beginning of New India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday, with the new stretch set to reduce the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to around three and a half hours.
The Cost Of Expressway
Developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore, this first completed section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
Modi will launch road development projects worth more than Rs 18,100 crore from Dausa and will visit Karnataka on Monday to inaugurate the 14th edition of Aero India 2023 at the Air Force Station, Yelahanka in Bengaluru.
The Developing Nation
The PMO said Modi’s emphasis on the building of excellent road infrastructure as an engine of growth, development, and connectivity in “New India” is being realized by the construction of a number of ongoing world-class expressways across the country.
Details
The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest with a length of 1,386 km. It will reduce the travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12 per cent, from 1,424 km to 1,242 km, while the travel time will be cut by 50 per cent, from the current 24 hours to 12 hours, it said.
The expressway will pass through six states Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara, and Surat.
It will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 ports, eight major airports, and eight multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport, and JNPT port.
It will have a catalytic impact on the developmental trajectory of all adjoining regions, thus contributing in a major way to the economic transformation of the country, the PMO said.
More Projects of Modi’s ‘Make in India’
During the programme, Modi will also lay the foundation stone of 247 kilometers of national highway projects to be developed at a cost of more than Rs 5,940 crore.
About the prime minister’s programme in Bengaluru, the PMO noted that the theme of Aero India 2023 is “The Runway to a Billion Opportunities”.
In line with Modi’s vision of “Make in India, Make for the World”, the event will focus on displaying indigenous equipment, and technologies and forging partnerships with foreign companies, it said.
The prime minister’s emphasis on self-reliance in the Indian defense sector will also be displayed, as the event will showcase the country’s progress in design leadership, growth in the UAVs sector, defense space, and futuristic technologies.
Further, the event will promote the export of indigenous air platforms like Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Tejas, HTT-40, Dornier Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), the PMO said.
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The event will also help in integrating domestic MSMEs and start-ups in the global supply chain and attract foreign investments including partnerships for co-development and co-production, it said.
The event will witness participation from more than 80 countries. Ministers of about 30 countries and 65 CEOs of global and Indian OEMs are likely to participate in Aero India 2023.
Aero India 2023 exhibition will witness the participation of more than 800 defense companies including around 100 foreign and 700 Indian, the PMO said.
