Delhi and Haryana Chief Ministers Inaugurated Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway

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Delhi and Haryana Chief Ministers Inaugurated Delhi Faridabad Elevated
Highway
17:42 IST

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The much awaited Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway (dfskywayTM)
connecting Delhi and Haryana was inaugurated today by Smt Sheila
Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi and Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief
Minister of Haryana. The function was presided over by Shri Kamal
Nath, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H),
Government of India in the presence of Shri R P N Singh - Minister of
State MoRT&H, Shri Ramesh Kumar - Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
from South Delhi, Shri Avtar Singh Bhadana – Member of Parliament (Lok
Sabha) from Faridabad, Shri R.S. Gujral – Secretary, MoRT&H, Shri
Brijeshwar Singh - Chairman of National Highways Authority of India
and Shri Ajit Gulabchand - Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan
Construction Company (HCC). The elevated highway has been completed
nearly a month ahead of its stipulated date of December 22, 2010.

The Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway (dfskywayTM), popularly known as
the Badarpur Elevated Highway Project was commissioned by the National
Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and has been designed, engineered
and constructed by the HCC Group with an investment of nearly Rs.600
crore. The project will significantly improve travel time by over 40
minutes (with large fuel savings) between the rapidly developing city
of Faridabad and Delhi, and will serve as a boon to both residents and
interstate traffic alike, on the Delhi-Faridabad-Mathura-Agra route
(National Highway 2).

“HCC is committed to delivering responsible infrastructure to the
country. I congratulate my team of engineers who has completed this
project ahead of schedule despite numerous challenges. Equally
importantly, the water conservation and ground water recharge
initiatives undertaken in this project make it one of the first water
positive infrastructure facilities in the country”, said Mr Ajit
Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, HCC.

Mr Brijeshwar Singh, Chairman, NHAI said, “We are happy about the
early completion of this Public Private Partnership, which is another
commendable project to HCC’s credit. The elevated highway will offer
immense respite to the commuters between Delhi and Haryana and will
also play a significant role in the development of Faridabad as a
commercial hub”.

In this project the commuters shall be able to use the facility of
daily pass and monthly pass which will allow commuters of the Delhi
Faridabad Elevated Highway uninterrupted travel without the ordeal of
paying toll multiple times in a day thereby saving additional time and
fuel cost.


The National Highways Authority of India was constituted by an act of
Parliament, the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. The
Authority was operationalised in February, 1995 It is responsible for
the development, maintenance and management of National Highways
entrusted to it and for matters connected or incidental thereto.. Out
of total 70548 Km length of National Highways in the country, 54464 Km
is under National Highway Development Programme under various phases.
NHAI is implementing NHDP in 49253 Km length out of which 14436 Km has
already been completed. The length of 8903 Km is under improvement.





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