The travel time from Katra to Delhi will now be reduced to around six and half hours and from Jammu to Delhi to just about six hours when the Katra- Delhi Express Road Corridor becomes operational which will be ready by 2023.
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The hallmark of this road corridor is that it will connect the holy cities of Katra and Amritsar.
Katra- Delhi Express Road Corridor will also offer connectivity for some other major important religious shrines between the two destinations, he said.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that Katra- Delhi Express Road Corridor is estimated to cost over ₹35,000 crores.
The important cities through which this Expressway Corridor will pass include Jammu and Kathua in J&K, and Jalandhar, Amritsar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana in Punjab.
Dr Jitendra Singh, who is a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) representing Katra Vaishno Devi, had been pursuing this project since 2015.
