<b> <br />''</b>Surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari today said that Prime minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Eastern peripheral expressway and Delhi-Meerut expressway on 15th March. 135-km long Eastern Peripheral Expressway will help decongest Delhi traffic. The Eastern Peripheral Expressway envisages signal-free connectivity between Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gautam Budh Nagar (Greater Noida) and Palwal.&nbsp;''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Speaking at Asian infrastructure Investment Bank meeting in New Delhi, the minister said,&nbsp; building highways picked up and touched 21.46 km a day in the April-January period of 2017-18 compared with 18.30 km per day in the same period last fiscal. He expressed hope that the target of building highways at a pace of 40-kilometre a day will be achieved by next year. Mr Gadkari said, by monetisation of road projects, 1.25 lakh crore rupees can be generated.&nbsp;''<div class="adL"><br />''</div></div>