Addressing the event through video-conferencing, Gandkari said he had promised the people of Uttarakhand that the NH-58 (in photo above) project would be completed before the Kumbh Mela and that his ministry did this successfully HARIDWAR: Union road, transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday announced a six-lane express highway economic corridor between Delhi and Dehradun via Haridwar that will reduce the travel time. He said once the work on this economic corridor is completed in 2024, the travel time between Delhi and Dehradun would be reduced to around two hours from around 5 hours at present. The Dehradun-Delhi expressway will be 210 km long, and the estimated cost of the project is around Rs 13,000 crore. Gadkari also dedicated four major highway projects to the public ahead of the Kumbh Mela and virtually laid the foundation stone for three other mega highway projects in the state at the VIP ghat in Haridwar.