Delhi and Haryana Chief Ministers Inaugurated Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway

The much awaited Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway connecting Delhi and Haryana was inaugurated by Smt Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi and Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana. The function was presided over by Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H), Government of India in the presence of Shri R P N Singh - Minister of State MoRT&H, Shri Ramesh Kumar - Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from South Delhi, Shri Avtar Singh Bhadana – Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Faridabad, Shri R.S. Gujral – Secretary, MoRT&H, Shri Brijeshwar Singh - Chairman of National Highways Authority of India and Shri Ajit Gulabchand - Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC). The elevated highway has been completed nearly a month ahead of its stipulated date of December 22, 2010.

The Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway, popularly known as the Badarpur Elevated Highway Project was commissioned by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and has been designed, engineered and constructed by the HCC Group with an investment of nearly Rs.600 crore. The project will significantly improve travel time by over 40 minutes (with large fuel savings) between the rapidly developing city of Faridabad and Delhi, and will serve as a boon to both residents and interstate traffic alike, on the Delhi-Faridabad-Mathura-Agra route (National Highway 2).

“HCC is committed to delivering responsible infrastructure to the country. I congratulate my team of engineers who has completed this project ahead of schedule despite numerous challenges. Equally importantly, the water conservation and ground water recharge initiatives undertaken in this project make it one of the first water positive infrastructure facilities in the country”, said Mr Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, HCC.

Mr Brijeshwar Singh, Chairman, NHAI said, “We are happy about the early completion of this Public Private Partnership, which is another commendable project to HCC’s credit. The elevated highway will offer immense respite to the commuters between Delhi and Haryana and will also play a significant role in the development of Faridabad as a commercial hub”.

In this project the commuters shall be able to use the facility of daily pass and monthly pass which will allow commuters of the Delhi Faridabad Elevated Highway uninterrupted travel without the ordeal of paying toll multiple times in a day thereby saving additional time and fuel cost. The details of the single entry fee, multiple entry fee and monthly passes are presented in the table below:



The National Highways Authority of India
was constituted by an act of Parliament, the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. The Authority was operationalised in February, 1995 It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of National Highways entrusted to it and for matters connected or incidental thereto.. Out of total 70548 Km length of National Highways in the country, 54464 Km is under National Highway Development Programme under various phases. NHAI is implementing NHDP in 49253 Km length out of which 14436 Km has already been completed. The length of 8903 Km is under improvement.