Panipat Elevated Corridor is an Indian elevated six-lane expressway located in

Panipat Panipat () is a historic city in Haryana, India. It is 95 km north of Delhi and 169 km south of Chandigarh on List of National Highways in India, NH-1. The three major battles fought in First Battle of Panipat, 1526, Second Battle of ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

. The entire stretch has been developed into an elevated six-lane access-controlled highway to by-pass the city of Panipat. The expressway was built to ease the traffic on NH-1 (now NH-44, also known as the

Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. ...

) between

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

and

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...

. It is long. This INR 4.22 billion build-operate-transfer (BoT) project has been executed by L&T Panipat Elevated Corridor Limited (L&T PECL), in a time period of 28 months at a cost of INR 325 crores.Panipat Elevated Expressway
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National Highways Authority of India 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 ...

had allotted a 20-year concession period (which started in January 2006) to L&T PECL to finance, design, build, operate and maintain this facility.

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{{Indian Highways Network Expressways in Haryana Transport in Panipat

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