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 near Sarkhej in

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled 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 ...

with Adhelai village in Bhavnagar district via

Dholera Special Investment Region Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) is a Greenfield project, greenfield industrial planned city near Dholera in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district, around 100 kilometers to the south-west. spread over more than 920 km2, it is a new industria ...

(DSIR). The proposed Dholera International Airport 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 () is an autonomous agency of the Government of India, set up in 1995 (Act 1988) and is responsible for management of a road network of over 50,000 km of National highways out of 1,32,499 ...

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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