{"id":3282,"date":"2023-02-12T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:57:31","slug":"delhi-mumbai-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/delhi-mumbai-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Mumbai Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H1<\/strong>:\u00a0 <strong>About Delhi-Mumbai Expressway:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will be <strong>India\u2019s longest expressway<\/strong> with a length of <strong>1,386 km.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This expressway will <strong>reduce the travel distance<\/strong> between Delhi and Mumbai by 12 percent <strong>from 1,424 km to 1,242 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Travel time <\/strong>between Delhi Mumbai will be <strong>reduced from 24 hours to 12 hours.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is being <strong>built at<\/strong> an estimated cost of <strong>Rs 98,000 crore by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The expressway will p<strong>ass through six states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra<\/strong> and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>8-lane access-controlled Greenfield Expressway<\/strong> with scope for <strong>future expansion upto 12-lane<\/strong> expressway.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first expressway in Asia<\/strong> and only the second in the <strong>world to feature animal overpasses <\/strong>to facilitate unrestricted movement of wildlife.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first expressway that is developed with a 21-meter median on principles <\/strong>of forgiving highways allowing inward expansion.<\/li>\n<li>The expressway <strong>facilitates Rain Water Harvesting<\/strong> in 500m interval at over 2,000 plus water recharge points.<\/li>\n<li>It will also have an <strong>automated traffic management system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which are the states through which Delhi-Mumbai Expressway passes?<\/h3>\n<p>It will pass through six states including Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/pm-modi-unveils-first-leg-of-delhi-mumbai-expressway-today-here-are-the-details-8439518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi unveils first leg of Delhi-Mumbai expressway today: Here are the details<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi-Mumbai Expressway  will be India\u2019s longest expressway with a length of 1,386 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}