Centre’s nod to convert Nuh-Alwar highway stretch into a four-lane road

On November 3, 2008, then Union minister S Jaipal Reddy laid the foundation for the four-lane road project.

In a post on X, Gadkari said, “This national highway section connects Gurugram, Sohna, and Nuh industrial areas. Due to the movement of heavy vehicles from Rajasthan to northern states, there is heavy traffic on this route. Making this section four-lane will reduce heavy traffic and provide better connectivity, which will promote economic development in this area.”

The current single-lane road has been a bottleneck, claiming around 3,000 lives over the last 12 years, sources claimed.

Nuh Congress MLA Aftab Ahmed on Tuesday claimed it was the UPA government that had initiated works to convert route 248A into a national highway in 2014. “But the BJP governments at the Centre and the state dropped this four-laning project in 2018 saying that the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will take care of the needs of the people,” he added.

The Congress had raised the issue repeatedly in the Haryana Assembly, Ahmed said, adding that he had written to the ministry in December about the Nuh-Firozpur stretch.

Ahmed, meanwhile, added that he met the Union Road Transport Secretary on Monday regarding several road projects about which he had previously written to Gadkari. These included demands for building inter-changes on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway’s Ujina and Punhana stretches and a new bypass for Nuh city. “The meeting was positive as the demands are justified,” he said.