Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the corridor on April 14 with an inauguration at Ganeshpur in Saharanpur, a public meeting at Mahindra Ground, and a visit to the Maa Daat Kali Temple, with about six helipads prepared for the trip.
- The six-lane highway, built at an estimated Rs 12,000–13,000 crore, is reported at about 210 km from near Delhi’s Akshardham to Dehradun, passing Baghpat, Baraut, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, and Saharanpur.
- Once traffic starts, officials expect the Delhi–Dehradun drive to drop to roughly 2 to 2.5 hours, helped by a 100 kmph cap for cars and new bypasses that remove choke points.
- The alignment includes a 12-km elevated wildlife corridor over Rajaji, a 370-metre tunnel near Daat Kali temple, two 200-metre elephant underpasses, and additional animal passes to reduce animal–vehicle conflict.
- NHAI lists seven interchanges, two railway overbridges, ten bridges, and fourteen wayside amenities, which are meant to pull traffic off older routes like the Delhi–Meerut Expressway and support tourism and freight into Uttarakhand.