The revised completion date for the 1,380-km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project is October 2025.


With an intention of linking two economic hubs of the country, the government of India planned the Delhi Mumbai Expressway, a 1,380-km controlled access highway, which would cut down the travel time between the two major cities from 24 hours to 12 hours. The foundation stone for the project was laid in March 2019 and is expected to be completed by October 2025. The Delhi Mumbai expressway, which will be India’s largest greenfield expressway, is near completion. The eight-lane Delhi Mumbai expressway will cover the Delhi Mumbai distance by passing through five states and several greenfield sites, which will be developed into warehousing hubs. It will offer connectivity to major economic centres in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The stretch from Sohna in Haryana to Dausa in Rajasthan was inaugurated on February 12, 2023, while the 845-km Delhi- Vadodara section was opened on October 2, 2023. 

Section 1: DND-Faridabad-KMP route: 59 km

The Delhi Mumbai expressway will start from the Delhi Noida Driveway (DND) flyway in Delhi and pass through areas such as Shaheen Bagh, Okhla, Kalindi Kunj. Sohna in Haryana will serve as an entry-exit point. The traffic from the entry/exit point will merge at the KMP expressway in Nuh and move further towards Vadodara and Mumbai.

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the first stretch of the expressway from Sohna in Haryana to Dausa in Rajasthan on February 12, 2023, reducing travel time from Delhi to Jaipur from five hours to just three hours. Covering 246 km, the section will reduce travel time from Delhi to Jaipur to just three hours from the current five hours. Developed at the cost of over Rs 12,150 crore, the section will be directly connected with the Mumbai-Delhi Expressway from DND to Jaitpur, from Jaitpur to Ballabhgarh and from Ballabhgarh to Sohna.

Delhi Mumbai Expressway to connect Jewar Airport

The NHAI has allotted Rs 537 crore for connecting the upcoming Noida International Airport with Yamuna Expressway and the Delhi Mumbai Expressway. A 750-metre road will be built to directly link the Jewar Airport with the Yamuna Expressway. Moreover, a 31-km expressway link is being constructed to link the airport with the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway through Ballabhgarh in Haryana. The NHAI is planning to build an interchange at the 30-km point on the Yamuna Expressway, where it will intersect with the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The proposed link road between Jewar and Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will provide connectivity between the Noida Airport and the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. 

Delhi Mumbai Expressway to reduce travel time from Maharani Bagh to Sohna

The upcoming Delhi-Mumbai expressway is expected to reduce the travel time from 2.5 hours to only 25 minutes. The six-lane highway and two newly developed bridges over the Agra and Gurgaon canals will ease traffic along the route, especially the Mathura Road that sees heavy traffic congestion. The elevated corridor will cover densely populated localities of Delhi such as Yamuna Khadar, Okhla Vihar and Batla House, moving parallel to the Yamuna riverbank. According to a TOI report, a downward ramp has been constructed near Maharani Bagh, which will pass through Ashram entrance to the DND flyover. This will facilitate seamless traffic flow to Faridabad, Palwal and Sohna.