<span style="color: #222222;">National Highway Authority of India, NHAI has developed a four-lane wide section from Phagwara to Rupnagar in Punjab to give a major boost to the road infrastructure in the State. In a series of tweets, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said, the project is being executed in Hybrid Annuity Mode at a cost of one thousand 367 crore rupees spanning a length of over 80 kilometers. He said, the section connects major cities Amritsar – Jalandhar – Chandigarh and extends mobility to Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ropar, and Mohali.<br />''<br />''The Minister said the alignment lessens the travel time from Jalandhar to Chandigarh to almost half and provides direct access to Khatkarkalan, which is the ancestral home of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Mr Gadkari said, resonating with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to build sustainable infrastructure, this Green Highway is fully saturated with healthy flowering plants throughout the stretch.</span><br />