Current context: The Delhi-Meerut Package-3 is to be inaugurated by Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways on 30th September.
a. Dasna to Hapur
b. Hapur to Meerut
c. Sarai Kale Khan to Ghazipur
d. Ghazipur border to Dasna
- The Delhi-Meerut Package-3 will connect Dasna in Ghaziabad to Hapur in UP.
- The package is built with a cost of Rs1989 crore and will stretch to 22 kilometres.
- The package includes the construction of a major bridge across the upper Ganga canal, which was a big challenge.
- The Delhi-Meerut Expressway (82 kilometre-long) connects Delhi with Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh.
- The project will help in decongesting National Capital Region and a considerable reduction in pollution level.
- The Delhi-Meerut Expressway project is being implemented in four packages:
- 6-lane expressway/ 8-lane NH 24 from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Ghazipur border.
- 6-lane expressway/ 8-lane NH 24 from Ghazipur border to Dasna in UP.
- 6-lane NH 24 from Dasna to Hapur in UP, which is being inaugurated.
- Greenfield 6-lane expressway from Hapur to Meerut.
Question:
Q.1 The recently launched Delhi-Meerut Package-3 will connect?
b. Hapur to Meerut
c. Sarai Kale Khan to Ghazipur
d. Ghazipur border to Dasna