Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inspected the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway project and announced that the travel time from Delhi to Amritsar will be reduced to four hours and to Katra to six hours once the expressway is operational.
The 669-kilometer expressway is being built at a cost of Rs 40,000 crore. It will pass through Haryana, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir. The expressway will connect major religious places like the Golden Temple, Sultanpur Lodhi Gurdwara, Goindwal Sahib Gurdwara, Khandur Sahib Gurdwara, Gurdwara Darbar Sahib (Tarn Taran), and the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.
In Punjab, the expressway will pass through industrial areas like Patiala, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, and Gurdaspur. A special feature of the corridor is the Asia’s longest 1,300-meter cable-stayed bridge over the Beas river.
The expressway is expected to boost economic activity in the region and create new employment opportunities.
