Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said that 60 per cent of the projects under the greenfield Delhi-Mumbai Expressway have already been awarded, Moneycontrol reported.
Gadkari provided this update during an investor gathering in Singapore.
To be built at an estimated cost of Rs 60,000 crore, the proposed Delhi-Mumbai expressway, which is expected to be completed by three years, will reduce the road distance between the two cities from 1,450 km (through extremely busy NH8) to approximately 1,250 km and consequently bring down the travel time significantly from the current 24 hours to 12 hours.