Overview
- Delhi’s Public Works Department said consultants have submitted the detailed project report and officials are now examining it ahead of financial and environmental clearances, with on-ground work targeted in roughly six months.
- Phase 1 is likely to cover an 11.5 km link from Kashmere Gate ISBT to Ashram or the DND Flyway, though a 9.5 km Azadpur–ISBT section is also being weighed to start where land and utility hurdles are fewer.
- The six-phase build adds a second deck over 55 km of the Mahatma Gandhi Ring Road, with ramps and loops extending the elevated network to about 80 km, and the government pegs the cost at around ₹7,000 crore.
- Designs include new elevated corridors, reworked junctions, underpasses, and safer paths for walking and cycling, with links to the Delhi Metro and major bus hubs to cut bottlenecks across the city.
- Engineers flag tough constraints such as third-level spans reaching 15–20 metres to clear existing flyovers and Metro lines and likely land and utility shifts on packed stretches like Narela, while a 5 km Majnu Ka Tila–Salimgarh Fort segment has initial approval pending environmental clearance and tendering.