Delhi-Meerut Expressway Approved

The laying of Delhi-Meerut Expressway has been approved by the Union ministry of surface transport, it is learnt. The Meerut Expressway, via Hazrat Nizammudin in Delhi, Dasna and Bhojpur to Meerut, is expected to be ready by the year 2013.
The Expressway is likely to cost Rs 1,250 crore.

Its approval was confirmed by Ghaziabad district magistrate R.Ramesh Kumar last week.

With the proposed Expressway, traffic snarls from Modi Nagar to Meerut would become a thing of the past.

The commissioner of Meerut division has called for a report about land acquisition in and around Bhojpur village of Modi Nagar Tehsil.

The details of forests, temples, tubewells, etc in villages Vidhapur, Patti, Kalcheena, Umarala, Bhadjan , Chidyala, have also been called for, it is learnt.

The letter issued from the surface transport ministry received in Tehsil headquarters also mentions that government officials are now busy in connection with the Commonwealth Games.

The work on Meerut-Delhi Expressway will be taken in hand in 2011 after the Commonwealth Games.

Source: tribuneindia.com