The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded sixteen projects worth Rs 655 crore.
The awards cover 16 projects for widening the national highways of a total length of 209 km into four and six
lanes. Of these 16 projects, 14 have been identified for immediate implementation.
The projects basically cover the east-west and north-south corridors.
The 14 projects are as follows:
Widening of the Delhi border to Samlakha section of National Highway 1 in Haryana into six lanes.
Widening of the of Delhi-Karnal section of National Highway 1 into six lanes.
Widening of the Agra-Gwalior section of National Highway 3 in Uttar Pradesh into four lanes.
Widening of the Agra-Dholpur section of National Highway 3 in Rajasthan into four lanes.
The other projects for widening into four lanes are the Agra-Gwalior section of NH-3 in Madhya Pradesh, the Nagpur-Hyderabad section of NH-7 in Andhra Pradesh, the Hyderabad-Bangalore section of NH-7 in Andhra Pradesh, the Salem bypass on Bangalore-Madurai section of NH-7 in Tamil Nadu and the Abu Road-Dessa section of NH-14 in Gujarat.
The Lucknow-Kanpur section of NH-25 in Uttar Pradesh will be widened into four lanes in two segments.
Some of the other projects are the widening of NH-31 in Bihar and West Bengal into four lanes and the widening of the Dalkhola-Islampore subsection 2 of NH-31 in West Bengal into four lanes.
One of these contracts relates to the remaining work of widening of the Karur Bypass, which is included in the east-west and
