Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of ambitious Delhi-Meerut Expressway project on Thursday. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said the Centre Government is committed to ease the traffic problems of Delhi and is taking a slew of steps. He said presently there is only one route, NH-58 between Delhi and Meerut on which the traffic remains jammed at several places, thus causing a lot of inconvenience to people. <br/><br/>Mr. Gadkari informed that the project will cost 7566 Crore Rupees and will include construction of 74 Km long Delhi-Dasna-Meerut 14 lane Expressway and upgradation of 22 Km long Dasna-Hapur section of NH-24 in three phases. <br/><br/>The alignment of Delhi-Meerut Express will start from Nizammudin Bridge from Delhi and will continue on existing NH – 24 upto Dasna. From Dasna there will be completely a new alignment upto Meerut. The alignment will terminate on inner ring road or Meerut bypass near Railway crossing at Meerut. The Prime Minister last month launched three important highway projects worth 10,166 Crore Rupees to decongest Delhi.