The expressway is to link Delhi-Amritsar-Katra (in Jammu), cutting the travel time on the 706-km Amritsar-Delhi stretch by four and a half hours from its present seven hours, Gadkari said.
Following the intervention of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday, companies of Border Security Force (BSF) reached Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Tarn Taran.
Richards’ parents — father K D Verma of Apra village in Jalandhar and mother Gayatri Devi of Chayam Mohalla, had migrated to Canada around 50 years ago.
“Sumit was allotted civil engineering at IIT Roorkee, I was allotted architecture in IIT Khargapur, but we could not arrange the fee,” said Amit, the elder of the two.