<span style="color: #222222;">Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today directed the officers to ensure that work for starting construction of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra National Expressway is put on fast-track mode. He was chairing the review meeting of the officers of the Public Works Department at Chandigarh.<br />''<br />''He said that this is an ambitious project, which once completed will save time, money and energy of commuters travelling from Delhi to Punjab and Jammu-Kashmir especially those desirous of paying obeisance at Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.<br />''<br />''Bhagwant Mann said that the 254-kilometer-long highway will be constructed at a cost 11,510 crore rupees and will pass through nine districts of the state viz. Jalandhar, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Patiala, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur.</span><br />