Road To Recovery: NHAI Infuses More Money For Smoother Gurgaon-Jaipur Ride

People who live in the national capital region and visit nearby places in Haryana and Rajasthan as their weekend getaways, do not find the ride as smooth as it used to be. The Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch of the National Highway-8 (NH-8) now acts as a speed breaker. Behind this is the National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) failure to carry out road widening and maintenance work. The rule that maintenance is far more difficult than building something does not have any exception, it seems. The road-widening work that began in 2009 kept seeing delays, as money crunch hit the highways authority. 

Now, the NHAI board, according to media reports, has given its approval to infuse fresh funds to carry out the work. The authority will release Rs 300 crore for this purpose. The money will be used to finish three flyovers, foot over-bridges and installation of crash barriers along the entire 225- km stretch, apart from building service roads.

While the move has come as a breather for contractors engaged in the work, it will also help increase the value of the property along the stretch. According to subsequent reports by the PropTiger DataLabs, properties in the NCR form the highest part of the unsold inventory across nine major cities of the country. A better-functioning highway between the Rajasthan capital and the Millennium City may be a good start to attract buyers towards this stock.