New Delhi, April 13 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 210-kilometre Delhi-Dehradun Expressway on April 14 in Dehradun, along with Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari. This will reduce the travel time from six hours to two and a half hours.

The project built at a cost of Rs.11,868.6 crore was initially slated for completion by December 2024. It passes through Baghpat, Baraut, Shamli, and Saharanpur. The project's foundation stone was first laid by Gadkari on February 26, 2021, and PM Modi laid another foundation stone on December 4, 2021.

The first 32-km stretch of this project from Delhi, including Akshardham through Geeta Colony, Shastri Park, Mandola Vihar in Ghaziabad, to Khekra in Baghpat had b...