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The Green Highway was built at a cost of Rs 11,125 crore and will significantly reduce travel time and improve connectivity between major cities as well as industrial corridors.  (photo: News18)

The Green Highway was built at a cost of Rs 11,125 crore and will significantly reduce travel time and improve connectivity between major cities as well as industrial corridors. (photo: News18)

The country’s prime minister will allocate the six-lane green highway segment, which stretches 500 km from Jagdawali village in Hanumanagarh district to Khatlawas village in Jalore district.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a six-lane section of the highway from the Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor on July 8. It will allocate to the country a 500-kilometer section in Rajasthan, which stretches from Jagdawali village in Hanumangarh district to the country. Khatlawas village in Jalore district.

The access-controlled section of green fields will not only facilitate the smooth transportation of goods, but also promote tourism and economic development. (photo: News18)

The expressway, which is part of the 1,256-kilometre Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor, was built at a cost of Rs 11,125 crore and will significantly reduce travel time and improve connectivity between major cities as well as industrial corridors. The access-controlled section of green fields will not only facilitate the smooth transportation of goods, but also promote tourism and economic development.

The entire project contains five green sections spanning more than 900 km. (photo: News18)

The entire project, which is being built at a cost of Rs 80,000 crores, is part of the Bharatmala Paryugana Phase 1 programme. It spans four states, including Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Gujarat.

Here is all you need to know about the economic corridor between Amritsar and Jamnagar:

  • The economic corridor is expected to be ready by December 2025, and will reduce the distance between Amritsar and Jamnagar from 1,430 km to 1,256 km, and reduce travel time between the two cities from 26 hours to 13 hours. However, last year, union minister Nitin Gadkari said the project would be ready by September 2023.
  • Much of the economic corridor will contain access-controlled six-lane alignments for 900km, while the remaining 300km will involve upgrading existing national highways. Greenfield Highways are designed to avoid populated areas and bring about development in new areas. This also reduces land acquisition costs as well as construction time
  • The project has been divided into eight sections, but polling state of Rajasthan is likely to be the biggest beneficiary of this economic corridor as 50 percent of the route (just over 600 km) passes through six districts of the state: Srijangangarh, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Barmer and Jalore
  • Delhi will also be connected to the Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor via the Delhi-Katra Highway, which will connect this region with Jammu and Kashmir. In Bathinda, it will also be linked to the Ludhiana-Bathinda-Ajmer expressway and the Pathankot-Ajmer economic corridor.
  • The project starts from Tibba village in Kapurthala district and ends at Jamnagar. It connects Pathinda, Chautala, Rasisar, Deogarh, Sanchur, Santalpur and Mallya along the way. Of the eight sections, five are green areas and three are brown areas.

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