Trans–Haryana Expressway

The Trans–Haryana Expressway or Ambala–Narnaul Expressway (NH 152D) is a 227 km long and 6-lane wide access-controlled expressway in the Indian state of Haryana.[1] This expressway connects Gangheri village on (NH-152) in Kurukshetra district (near Ismailabad) with Surana village on Narnaul Bypass (NH-148B) in Mahendragarh district. It passes via Kaul, Pundri, Assandh, Dhatrath, Kalanaur, and Charkhi Dadri.[2] It's straight-line greenfield alignment will reduce the distance from the state capital Chandigarh to Delhi, Narnaul, and Jaipur, while decongesting NH44 and NH48.[3]

Trans–Haryana Expressway
Ambala–Narnaul Expressway
Trans–Haryana Expressway in red
The Expressway near Bhiwani in Haryana
Route information
Maintained by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Length227 km (141 mi)
ExistedJune 2022–present
Major junctions
North endGhangheri village, Kurukshetra district, Haryana
South endSurana village, Mahendragarh district, Haryana
Location
CountryIndia
StatesHaryana
Highway system

The alignment intersects with at least 15 National Highways including NH-9 and several State Highways including SH6, SH9, SH8, SH11, SH12, SH14, SH10, SH16A, SH20, SH24 and SH26.[4] Area around it is being developed as an industrial corridor. Land acquisition is complete and construction work is expected to be completed by June 2022.

Ambala-Narnaul Expressway is a part of the Ambala-Kotputli Economic Corridor. Ambala-Kotputli Economic Corridor consists of 4 different road projects, namely

  • 39 km section of NH-152 from Ambala to Ismailabad
  • 227 km long Ambala-Narnaul Expressway
  • 14 km section of Narnaul Bypass
  • 30 km section of NH-148B from Narnaul Bypass to Paniyala Mor (NH-48).
  • Construction Status- Some patches of the expressway are ready to drive. It is sought to ready by end of April 2022.
  • 1. Section between Gangheri and Dhand(intersection with kaithal Karnal road) is ready to drive.
  • 2. Section between Charkhi Dardri and Kharkara(intersection with NH9) is also ready to drive
  • 95 percent civil work is completed of whole expressway only some bridges touch up is pending.

Details

Costing ₹5,108 crore, it will have 70 metre right of way, 122 bridges and underpasses and 1,36,000 trees would be planted on either sides is being developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under Bharatmala project.[2][4] Grenfield alignment will reduce the Ismailabad to Narnaul distance by 35 km from the existing 265 km route to 230 km new route.[5] Construction will create 1,500 full-time jobs for 3 years and 120 ongoing jobs will be created for the Toll Plaza staff.[4] To reduce the environmental impact the fly ash will be used from the Tau Devilal Thermal Power Plant at Panipat, Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar and Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station at Hisar.[4]

Route alignment

It passes through the areas lying in the following 8 districts of Haryana:[6]

1. Kurukshetra district

  • Gangheri, NH152D will interchange with the exiting NH152 (Ambala-Pehowa) at Gangheri which is 8 km south of Ismailabad and 8 km north of Pehowa
  • Pehowa, interchange with SH6 (Pehowa to Kurukshetra-Yamunanagar) east of Pehowa

2. Kaithal district

  • Kaul, interchange with SH9 (Pehowa to Karnal) at Dand just north of Kaul
  • Pundri, interchange with SH8 (Kaithal to Karnal) 3 km east of Pundri

3. Karnal district

4. Jind district

  • Jind city,
    • northeast: interchange with SH12 (Jind to Assand-Karnal) 25 km northeast of Jind near Badhana-Popran
    • northeast: interchange with Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway west of village Ratoli
    • east: interchange with SH14 (Jind to Panipat) 15 km east of Jind at Jamni near Pilu Khera
    • southeast: interchange with SH11 (Jind to Gohana-Sonipat) 15 km east of Jind
    • Kila zafargarh, interchange with NH352 (Jind-Julana to Lakhan Majra-Rohtak) 4 km south of Julana

5. Rohtak District

6. Bhiwani district

  • Baund Kalan, 20 km east of Bhiwani
  • Sanwar, 20 km southeast of Bhiwani

7. Charkhi Dadri district

8. Mahendragarh district

Construction

The NHAI has divided the construction work of 227 km long Ambala–Narnaul Expressway into 8 packages. Package-1 is a Joint Venture (JV) of JiangXi Construction Engineering, Ceigall India and Shiv Build India; Package-4 is a JV of JiangXi Construction Engineering and Shiv Build India and Package-7 is a JV of Gawar Construction and Shivalaya Construction Company. The list of contractors is as follows:

Sr. No Package Length in km Contractor
1. Ismailabad (Kurukshetra)–Dhand (Kaithal) 23 JiangXi – Ceigall – Shiv Build JV
2. Dhand (Kaithal)–Rajound (Kaithal) 33 Gawar Construction
3. Rajound (Kaithal)–Kheri (Jind) 24 Galfar Engineering & Contracting
4. Kheri (Jind)–Julana (Jind) 28 JiangXi – Shiv Build JV
5. Julana (Jind)–Kharkara (Rohtak) 23 Gawar Construction
6. Kharkara (Rohtak)–Charkhi Dadri 34 Gawar Construction
7. Charkhi Dadri–Kanina (Mahendragarh) 35 Gawar – Shivalaya JV
8. Kanina (Mahendragarh)–Narnaul 27 Gawar Construction

Status updates
  • Dec 2018: The required 1,826 hectares of land has been acquired at the cost of ₹529.29 crores.
  • Jul 2020: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone on 14 July 2020 via webcast.[8][9]
  • Sep 2020 Ambala-Narnaul-Kotputli corridor will be connected with Delhi–Mumbai Expressway.[10]
  • Mar 2021 An under-construction flyover of Package-2 collapsed at Dulyani near Pundri, Kaithal.[11]
  • July 2021: It will be completed by the end of June 2022.
  • March 2022: About 95 percent construction work is completed. 1. Section between Gangheri and Dhand is ready to drive at 130 kmph easily. 2 Section Between Kharkara(intersection with NH9) and Narnaul is ready to cruise. 3. Some patches between Pundri and Karkara patch (especially Bridges over canals and intersection with other National Highways are pending)
  • May 2022: It is most likely to open by may 2022.

See also

References
  1. 230 km long highway to be constructed from Ismailabad to Narnaul, Dainik Jagran, 05 July 2018.
  2. New NH to be constructed, Daily Pioneer, 11 December 2018.
  3. "Delhi to Chandigarh in 2 hours by 2023". Times of India. 16 July 2020.
  4. Pre-feasibility report
  5. Better connectivity: Government to build five new greenfield road corridors, The New Indian Express, 20 July 2018.
  6. "Eight districts to be connected by Ismailabad-Narnaul Highway". Dainik Bhaskar. 20 May 2020.
  7. Cargo Airport to boost the real estate market of Bhiwadi, Business Standard, 10 October 2018
  8. "Shri Gadkari inaugurates and lays foundation stones of new economic corridor projects worth about Rs 20,000 crore in Haryana". Press Information Bureau. 14 July 2020.
  9. "Gadkari inaugurate, lays foundation stone for 11 National Highway projects worth 20,000 crores in Haryana". The Hindu. 14 July 2020.
  10. "Ambala-Narnaul-Kotputli corridor will be connected with Delhi-Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway". Dainik Jagran. 9 September 2020.
  11. "Under-construction flyover on expressway collapses near Kaithal". Times of India. 1 March 2021.
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