TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present a “big gift” to Delhi’ites by inaugurating several highways in the next six months to free the city from traffic jams and pollution, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday.
In the last two years, the Modi government has provided Rs. 40,000 crore for infrastructure development in Delhi, Mr Gadkari said while addressing a two-day executive meeting of the Delhi BJP.
“Six months from now on, PM Modi will give a big gift to the people of Delhi by inaugurating several highways that will free the city from traffic jams and pollution,” the Union Road Transport and Highways minister was quoted as saying in a Delhi BJP statement.
The expansion of NH-24 heading towards Meerut with an expenditure of Rs. 6,000 crore will use the waste dumped at the Ghazipur landfill site, providing a big relief to locals, the minister said. Earlier this month, a portion of the mountain of garbage at the landfill had collapsed killing two people.
“The Modi government has also sanctioned thousands of crores of rupees for the Dhaulakuan-Jaipur, Mukarba Chowk-Panipat roads, Dwarka Expressway and North-West corridor,” Mr Gadkari said.
