Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 17: National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) today demolished several shops along the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway (NH) at Kunjwani for expansion of the existing highway.
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Officials of NHAI along with Revenue Department officials today launched a demolition drive along the NH at Kunjwani as a part of under-construction Delhi – Amritsar – Katra (DAK) expressway project.
During the drive, around 10 shops raised along the National Highway were demolished with the help of an earth-moving machine. As per officials, these shops were raised on the land that belongs to NHAI.
Delhi – Amritsar – Katra Expressway’s Detailed Project Report (DPR) and alignment studies were prepared by Feedback Infrastructure in 2019 and land acquisition started in January 2020.
Phase 1 involves the construction of a 397.7 km greenfield expressway between Delhi – Ludhiana – Gurdaspur and a 99 km spur connecting Nakodar – Amritsar while Phase 2 will connect Gurdaspur – Pathankot – Jammu – Katra and will be a Brownfield expansion of the existing NH-54 (old NH-15) and NH-44 (old NH-1) highway.
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