Expressways of India


Expressways are the highest class of roads in India. In India, expressways are controlled-access highways where entrance and exit is controlled by the use of ramps that are incorporated into the design of the expressway, whereas National highways are at-grade roads. Some roads are not access controlled, but are still officially called expressways, such as the Biju Expressway.
The majority of the investment required for constructing expressways comes from the Central Government. Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are the only states which are investing in building expressways through dedicated expressway corporations.
The National Expressways Authority of India operating under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will be in-charge of the construction and maintenance of expressways. The National Highways Development Project by the Government of India aims to expand the country's current expressway network and plans to add an additional 18,637 km of greenfield expressways by 2022 apart from existing national highways.
Bharatmala, a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India with a target of constructing 83,677 km of new highways over the next five years, was started in 2018. Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34,800 km of highways at an estimated cost of ₹5.35 lakh crore by 2021-22.

Characteristics

Currently, approximately 1,642.5 km of expressways are operational in India.
All the expressways are six or more-lane controlled-access highways where entrance and exit is controlled by the use of slip roads.
India has one of the lowest densities of expressways in the world.

List of expressways

Operational

Only operational length is shown. Total length listed in this table is. AC- Access controlled
NameStatesLength YearOSM
Agra–Lucknow Expressway Uttar Pradesh2017
Ahmedabad–Vadodara Expressway
Gujarat2004
Bangalore Elevated TollwayKarnataka2010
Belghoria ExpresswayWest Bengal2012
Chennai BypassTamil Nadu2010
Delhi–Faridabad SkywayDelhi, Haryana2010
Delhi–Gurgaon ExpresswayDelhi, Haryana2008
Delhi–Meerut Expressway Delhi, Uttar Pradesh
2018
Delhi–Noida Direct Flyway Delhi, Uttar Pradesh2001
Eastern Freeway Maharashtra2013
Eastern Peripheral Expressway
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana2018
Elevated Road AmritsarPunjab2014
Guntur-Vijayawada ExpresswayAndhra Pradesh
Himalayan ExpresswayPunjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh
Hindon Elevated RoadUttar Pradesh2018
IT Expressway Tamil Nadu2008
Jaipur Elevated RoadRajasthan2014
Mumbai–Pune Expressway Maharashtra2002
Noida–Greater Noida Expressway Uttar Pradesh2012
Outer Ring Road, Chennai Tamil Nadu2014
Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad Telangana2018
P.V. Narasimha Rao Expressway Telangana2009
Panipat Elevated ExpresswayHaryana2008
Western Freeway Maharashtra
2009
Western Peripheral Expressway Haryana2018
Yamuna Expressway Uttar Pradesh2012
TOTAL1459.4 km 2020

Under construction

Total length listed in this table is.
NameStatesLength
Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway*Gujarat
Airoli–Katai Naka FreewayMaharashtra
Amritsar–Jamnagar ExpresswayPunjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat
Bangalore–Mysore Infrastructure Corridor*Karnataka
Bundelkhand ExpresswayUttar Pradesh
Chennai Port–Maduravoyal ExpresswayTamil Nadu
Coastal Road Maharashtra
DND KMP ExpresswayDelhi
Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway*Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir
Delhi–Meerut ExpresswayDelhi, Uttar Pradesh
Delhi–Mumbai ExpresswayHaryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
Dwarka ExpresswayDelhi, Haryana
Jaipur super ExpresswayHaryana, Rajasthan
Faridabad–Noida–Ghaziabad ExpresswayDelhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh
Ganga Expressway*Uttar Pradesh
Ambala–Narnaul Expressway Haryana
Gorakhpur Link ExpresswayUttar Pradesh
Kanpur–Lucknow Expressway*Uttar Pradesh
Loknayak Ganga PathBihar
Lucknow Outer Ring RoadUttar Pradesh
Ludhiana Elevated corridorPunjab
Mumbai Trans Harbour LinkMaharashtra
Mumbai–Vadodara Expressway
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Mumbai–Nagpur ExpresswayMaharashtra
Peripheral Ring Road*Karnataka
Purvanchal ExpresswayUttar Pradesh
Raipur–Vishakhapatnam Expressway*Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
Sohna Elevated CorridorDelhi NCR
Varanasi Ring RoadUttar Pradesh
Wazirabad–Mayur Vihar Elevated Expressway*Delhi NCR
TOTAL7,807.8 km

Planned/proposed

Planned/proposed under Bharatmala