From: Jagdalpur | Length 650 km | |
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Biju expressways
Biju Expressway is an expressway under construction, measuring 650 km. It will start at Chandili (border village in Koraput district) and touch border towns/market centres such as Kotpad, Boriguma, Nabarangpur, Papadahandi, Ambapani, Gadbhanga, Dharmagarh, Sinapalli, Bhella, Nuapada, Paikamal, Padampur, Sohela, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh before ending at Rourkela.
Total cost of the project is around ₹3,630 crore (US$540 million). It will be completed in phased manner. In the first phase of the project, 254 km road will be converted to four-lanes and 402 kilometers to be two-lanes. In the second phase, 258 km will be made four-lane.
First phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by May 2017, the second phase completion target has been fixed by the end of 2019. Once completed it will reduce travel time from 13 hrs to 6 hrs.
307 km of the total length would be developed into four lane standard while the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will develop another 183 km. The 160-km road from Sambalpur to Rourkela (SH-10) will be made four lane through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
