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Expressways bracket Faridabad

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Eastern peripheral expressway

  • Tender floated by NHAI
  • Bidding completes by the end of 2008
  • 80% land acquisition
  • Work starts July 2009
  • to be built on build-operation-transfer basis (BOT)
  • Begins from NH-1 in Kundli (Haryana), crosses Yamuna river near Mawikalan, river Hindon near Sharfabad, NH-58 near Duhai, NH-24 near Dasna, NH-91 near Beelakbarpur, Kasna-Sikandrabad road near Sirsa, re-crosses Yamuna near Fajjupur Khadar, Atali-Chinsa near Maujpur and meets NH-2 beyond Palwal.
  • It will pass through five districts — Sonipat, Faridabad in Haryana and Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Estimated cost: 2676 crore
  • Distance: 135km
  • Timeline: 2012

Western peripheral expressway

  • Completed by end of 2009
  • The 135.6-km
  • four-lane
  • Rs 2,545 crore
  • NH-1 near Kundli (Sonipat) →NH-10 at west of Bahadurgarh, →crossing NH-8 at Manesar (Gurgaon) and ═joining NH-2 near Palwal (Faridabad).

(Source: Times of India)

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