Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway is a long, four-lane wide (expandable to eight) access-controlled under-construction expressway in

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. It will connect

Sardar Patel Ring Road The Sardar Patel Ring Road is a 78 km long ring road encircling the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is a toll road built by the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA). Built at a cost of ₹3.55 billion, it was opened in ...

near

Sarkhej Sarkhej is a suburban neighbourhood in the city of Ahmedabad. It is primarily known for the Sarkhej Roza, an architectural complex located 8 km south from the city centre. One of the most important roads of metropolitan Ahmedabad, Sarkhej� ...

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

with Adhelai village in

Bhavnagar district Bhavnagar District is a Districts of India, district of southeastern Gujarat, India, on the Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra peninsula. It is also known as Gohilwar as a major portion of Bhavnagar district was ruled by Gahlot, Gohil Rajputs. The a ...

via

Dholera Special Investment Region Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) is a Greenfield project, Greenfield industrial planned city in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district, around 100 kilometers to the south-west. A legal framework known as the Special Investment Region Act 2009 was m ...

(DSIR). The proposed

Dholera International Airport Dholera International Airport is a greenfield airport project in Gujarat, India. It will be built near Navagam in the Dholera taluka of Ahmedabad district. The project site is spread over 1,426 hectares about 80 kilometers from Ahmedabad and aroun ...

near Navagam, about from Dholera SIR will also lie in the route. The Ahmedabad–Dholera greenfield expressway is a part of the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and is expected to be ready by 2024.

Construction

The

NHAI The National Highways Authority of India or NHAI (Hindi: भारतीय राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग प्राधिकरण) is an autonomous agency of the Government of India, set up in 1995 (Act 1988) and i ...

has divided the construction work of Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway into four packages. Its total construction cost (excluding the cost of land) is about ₹3,196

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s. The list of contractors is as follows:

Status updates

* April 2020: Tenders floated for construction of expressway by the

. * August 2020: Tenders awarded in EPC mode to Sadbhav Engineering (Package 1 and 2), GHV India Pvt. Ltd. (Package 3) and Dineshchandra R. Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd. (Package 4). * April 2022: Work in progress

References

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