Highway projects worth ₹5,000 crore are under way to decongest the National Capital Region, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.

Transport Minister Gadkari was addressing a gathering while laying the foundation stone of a ₹3,580-crore highway project here.

The over 59-km-long highway project will start at Ring Road-DND junction and passing through Kalindi bypass and Faridabad-Ballabhgarh bypass, it will finish at the interchange of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at KMP.

Gadkari said work on the 59-km project will begin within two months and the entire project will be completed in two years, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways quoted Gadkari as saying in a statement.

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