Union Minister Harsh Malhotra lays foundation for flyovers, FOBs on Delhi-Jaipur Highway, enhancing safety and connectivity

Union Minister of State for Road, Transport and Highways and Corporate Affairs Harsh Malhotra on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) laid the foundation stone for four new flyovers nine Foot Over Bridges (FOBs) at strategic locations on Delhi-Jaipur Highway (National Highway-48) and other engineering works, at an estimated cost of ₹282 crore, along with the Union Minister State for Statistics and Planning Rao Inderjit Singh.

He said he was grateful to contribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s vision of “Viksit Bharat”, where world-class infrastructure was not a dream but a reality.

The Minister said that projects would ensure a safer and smoother travel experience for the residents and commuters of Gurugram, Rewari, and adjoining regions, especially service professionals.

The four flyover projects at Panchgaon Chowk, Rathiwas, near Hero Company, and Sahlawas were aimed at eliminating at-grade conflicts and addressing accident-prone blackspots. It would also solve the long-standing challenges of traffic congestion, waterlogging, and road safety along the NH-48 corridor from Kherki Dhaula to the Haryana-Rajasthan border, Mr. Malhotra added.

The Minister highlighted that FOBs at nine strategic locations — Shikhopur, Manesar, Binola, Rathiwas, Malpura, Jaisinghpurkhera, Sidhrawali, Kharkhara and Khijuri — along the Gurgaon–Kotputli–Jaipur section of NH-48 would be equipped with ramps and stairways to ensure accessibility for all, including two-wheelers where necessary.

Also, to enhance safety and usability during night hours, the bridges would feature dedicated lighting systems, which would, in turn, significantly reduce pedestrian-related accidents and fatalities while improving overall highway safety and connectivity.

These projects would be a stepping stone for prosperity in the region, which would not only ensure road safety but would also propel social and economic well-being, said the Minister.

Mr. Malhotra stated that as part of the strategic decongestion of Delhi-NCR, projects worth ₹80,545 crore covering 1,679 km were completed, an additional ₹7,084 crore worth of infrastructure was under implementation, and ₹23,850 crore worth of projects were in the planning stage.

This include extensions of the Delhi–Amritsar–Katra and Delhi–Dehradun Expressways via UER-II, the eastern extension of UER-II to Noida, Ghaziabad, and Faridabad, a five km road tunnel from Dwarka Expressway to Nelson Mandela Marg, a 20 km elevated corridor from AIIMS to Mahipalpur Bypass extending to Gurgaon–Faridabad Road, and a 0.5 km interchange at Kalindi Kunj near Okhla Barrage.