The Union government is looking at two options to make the Delhi-Jaipur expressway as a viable project. The Union highways ministry may either allow the developer to collect the toll from the adjacent Delhi-Gurgaon and Gurgaon-Jaipur highway stretches or, the expressway could also be built via the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route, using funding from multilateral agencies, if necessary.
To speed up the much delayed project, the government has set up an inter-ministerial committee. The Union Department of Economic Affairs will look into whether the government can get the amount of money required to finance the project through EPC route, said a senior highways ministry official.
The concession for the Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch will expire in March 2022 while that of the Delhi-Gurgaon stretch will expire in January 2023.
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