• By Nidhi Giri
  • Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:33 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway Status: Work on 1,156 km stretch of the 1,386-km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway has been finished, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, April 2. “Out of this, 756 km has been operationalised," it said. The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is being developed with an 8-lane configuration with provision to expand to 12-lanes in the future, with a design speed of 120 km/hr.

In July 2024, the ministry had informed the Rajya Sabha that as of June 2024, the physical progress of the work is 82 per cent and cumulative length of 1,136 km has been constructed.

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The ministry, last year, also shared that the revised scheduled completion date of the project was October 2025.

Once completed, the 1,386-km expressway will be the longest in India. Last year, News18 reported that even before completion, the partially opened Mumbai-Delhi Expressway is the longest in India, surpassing all the existing e-ways in the country.

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The expressway passes through and connects cities in and around Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra with each other and national capital Delhi. The estimated cost of the project was about Rs 1 lakh crore.

This new expressway is expected to halve the commute time between Delhi and Mumbai, from nearly 24 hours to 12 hours, and shorten the distance. Currently, Mumbai and Delhi are connected with NH-48 which is longer (1,440 km) as well as congested.