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Delhi-Katra travel time to come down to 6 hrs
The Morning Standard
|October 20, 2023
UNION Minister for Road Transport and Highways (MORTH), Nitin Gadkari, inspected the ongoing work on the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra (DAK) Greenfield Expressway and the Amritsar Bypass projects in Punjab on Thursday.
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Once the expressway is completed, the travel time between the national capital and Amritsar will be reduced to just four hours, and one could reach Katra from Delhi in six hours. A major feature of this corridor is the cable-hung bridge over the Beas River, which will be Asia's longest, at 1,300 metres.
Interestingly, the National Highways Authority of India had recently moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court as it faced difficulties in acquiring possession of the land for this prestigious project.
This story is from the October 20, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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