CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor (from Eastern Peripheral Expressway Junction to Dehradun) will be built at a cost of around Rs. 8, 300 crore. The project will be executed under Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of eleven development projects. The eleven projects include the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor (from Eastern Peripheral Expressway Junction to Dehradun) which will be built at a cost of around Rs 8300 crore.

Detailed explanation-3: -Delhi – Dehradun Expressway – Information & Status Update The project’s detailed project report (DPR) was prepared by MSV International Inc. in 2019. Nitin Gadkari laid the project’s foundation stone on 26 February, 2021, and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid its foundation stone again on December 4, 2021.

Detailed explanation-4: -GHAZIABAD: An expressway that will bring down the time taken to travel between Delhi and Dehradun from 5 to two and a half hours is likely to be ready in a year, or by March 2024 in the “worst-case scenario”, a senior official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said.