Up to date on: Aug 17, 2025 03:11 pm IST
Why the City Extension Street-II (UER-II) and two new sections of Dwarka Expressway, opened by PM Narendra Modi on Sunday, matter to individuals and economic system
Key highway routes reducing visitors congestion and journey time opened on Sunday within the Delhi-Nationwide Capital Area (NCR) — the City Extension Street-II (UER-II) and two sections of the Dwarka Expressway. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated these on Sunday.
What’s UER-II and why it issues
The City Extension Street-II (UER-II) will ease visitors on Delhi’s Interior and Outer Ring Roads, apart from congestion factors similar to Mukarba Chowk and Dhaula Kuan, and on the NH-09.
- Measuring 75.7 kilometres, UER-II is basically designed as Delhi’s third Ring Street. It’s going to thus present direct entry to Bahadurgarh and Sonipat in Haryana from west and south Delhi.
- For commuters on the Delhi-Chandigarh route, and additional, this may minimize journey time. For business, this may show to be a significant increase, bringing down price of transport throughout the Nationwide Capital Area and past. Actual property stands to realize, too, it can spur demand for warehouses and retail areas, HT has reported.
- In response to the Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI), these 4 packages of UER-II join Mahipalpur close to the Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) Airport to Alipur in North Delhi, linking up with routes to Haryana, Punjab and additional.
- It’s a part of a hall that may in future join 5 main NCR expressways: Delhi-Dehradun, Delhi-Meerut, Noida-Larger Noida, DND-Faridabad, and Yamuna Expressway. Of the UER-II, 54.21 km is in Delhi and 21.5 km in Haryana. The mission price is ₹6,445 crore.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari shared a video, too, explaining a number of the factors:
How will Dwarka Expressway’s newly-opened sections assist?
Phases three and 4 of the Dwarka Expressway had been additionally opened by PM Modi on the operate in Rohini on Sunday afternoon.
- These phases make up a ten.1-km route in Delhi which improves Delhi-Gurugram connectivity; and features a 5.1-km tunnel connecting to IGI Airport. Earlier, Packages 1 and a pair of, protecting the Haryana part had been inaugurated by PM Modi in March 2024.
- The Delhi part of the expressway will comprise a four-level interchange, with two of them constructed underground. It’s going to additionally guarantee multi-modal connectivity to Yashobhoomi, DMRC Blue and Orange strains, and the upcoming Bijwasan railway station, apart from the Dwarka cluster bus depot.
- From Sonipat, Rohtak, Bahadurgarh and Gurugram, it cuts the journey time to the Delhi airport considerably. A 34-lane toll plaza may also be constructed as part of this expressway, mentioned a PTI report.
- A stretch from Shiv Murti intersection to the Street Beneath Bridge (RUB) at Dwarka Sector-21, and one other from Dwarka Sector-21 to the Delhi-Haryana Border, will additional join with the City Extension Street-II (UER-II).
- “This may also deliver world-class infrastructure to our doorstep. For residents, it means safer roads, higher high quality of life, and rising property values; for the area, it indicators the beginning of a brand new period of progress and alternative,” mentioned Sunil Sareen, deputy convener of the Dwarka Expressway Group Improvement Authority (DXPGDA).
- Vital actual property exercise has already been triggered. Knowledge from analysts reveals practically 45,000 housing models had been launched alongside the hall over the previous decade, with 20,000-22,000 already accomplished.
