- Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on September 17, 2021, announced that Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway is being constructed as the world’s longest highway in India.
- The project is expected to be completed by March 2022.
- Gadkari made these announcements on day two of the two-day aerial survey of the Delhi-Mumbai Express after inspecting the Bharuch section of the expressway on September 17.
- Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, and Sushma Swaraj had laid the foundation stone on March 8, 2019.
- The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will have India’s first 8-lane bridge that is being built across the Narmada river near Bharuch, Gujarat, tweeted Gadkari.
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