Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: India's Longest Highway To Be Fully Operational From THIS Date | Details

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway may take a little longer to complete than expected. The longest highway in India is expected to be finished with construction by the end of this year, however, it might take least another year to be fully operational. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, July 31, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stated that the highway will be finished by October of the next year.

"The revised scheduled completion date is October, 2025," he said. Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, states that the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is 80 percent complete. Just 1,136 km of the expressway's whole length—which is 1,386 km overall—had been built as of June. According to Gadkari, work is currently being done on the remaining parts, which contain 27 spurs.

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway's completion date has previously been postponed for a number of reasons. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is in charge of carrying out the project which began in 2018 and was supposed to be finished in five years.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the first section of the 209-kilometre highway between Dausa, Rajasthan, and Sohna, Haryana, on February 12 of last year.

The expressway between Delhi and Mumbai is currently only partially functioning. It is expected to cut the travel time between the two cities in half when it is finished. Gadkari claims that it will only take 12 hours to complete the journey.

Currently, a car trip from Delhi to Mumbai takes about 24 hours. Additionally, it would shorten the three-hour travel time between Delhi and places like Jaipur.