The DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway is an under construction (partially operational), , eight-lane-wide (expandable to 12-lane), access-controlled, greenfield expressway connecting India's national capital New Delhi to its financial capital Mumbai, which cuts down the 24 hours Delhi-Mumbai travel time to 12 hours. DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway connects the Sohna Elevated Corridor, Delhi to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Maharashtra via Dausa, Kota, Ratlam, Vadodara and Surat. It passes through the Union territory of Delhi (12 km) and the states of Haryana (129 km), Rajasthan (373 km), Madhya Pradesh (244 km), Gujarat (426 km) and Maharashtra (171 km). The main length of the expressway from Sohna to Virar is 1,198 km, it's two extensions on either ends, (59 km) and VirarâÂÂJNPT (92 km), increase its length to 1,350 km. It also has two greenfield spurs, 32-km long 6-lane FaridabadâÂÂJewar Expressway and 67 km long 4-lane BandikuiâÂÂJaipur Expressway, taking the network length to 1450 km.
On 20 March 2018, the contract was awarded by the NHAI for the 24 km-long Package-1 of the VadodaraâÂÂVirar section in Gujarat to IRB Infrastructure,m and construction work commenced in December 2018. In March 2019, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone for the DNDâÂÂKMP section on 1 March 2019, and the SohnaâÂÂVadodara & VirarâÂÂJNPT sections on 8 March 2019.
In October 2021, the NHAI began design work of the 30 km long side spur connecting the Noida International Airport in Jewar, Uttar Pradesh, with Ballabhgarh (Faridabad), Haryana on this expressway.
The total project value, including the land acquisition cost, is around â¹1,00,000 crores (~US$13.1 billion). The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has formed a wholly owned special-purpose vehicle (SPV), named DME Development Limited (DMEDL), to finance the construction and operation of the DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway by diversifying its resource base to develop a sustainable and self-liquidating approach to raise finances. The toll on the projects housed in the SPV is collected by NHAI and the SPV gets the annuity payments without any construction and tolling risks.
The entire 1,350 km long DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway is divided into 4 sections with a total of 52 construction packages/tenders.
The NHAI had awarded the construction work in 52 packages to around 20 construction companies. Around 15,000 hectares of land were acquired for this project. Status as of 28 March, 2026.
DELHI-VADODARA SECTION
VADODARA-VIRAR-JNTP Spur SECTIONS
DND-Faridabad-KMP Spur SECTIONS
At the Delhi end, the DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway has two main entry/exit points: DND Flyway, Maharani Bagh in Delhi and Alipur village, north of Sohna in Haryana. Traffic coming from both ends and moving towards Vadodara / Mumbai will merge at the double trumpet interchange with KMP Expressway at Khalilpur village (Nuh district) of Haryana. The greenfield alignment is as follows:
This section forms eastern semi-circle around Mumbai.
The expressway will have multiple side spurs in the future, which will help commuters to connect with other major cities which are not directly connected on the main route.
The various special features of the DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway are as follows.
Land for an additional four lanes is reserved in the middle of the road for future expansion from 8 lanes to 12 lanes, along with the space for utilities, plantation and public transport on both sides. This expressway, along with Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (Western DFC) is a vital backbone of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
The expressway will have Wayside Amenities at 93 places having facilities like ATM, hotels, retail shops, food courts, charging stations for electric vehicles and fuel stations. It will also be the first expressway in India to have helipads and fully equipped trauma centers at every 100 km for accident victims. Although this is planned, actual implementation and building of wayside amenities has been very slow, and it is usually advised to stock up on food, water and fuel before entering the motorway.
On 25 March 2021, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said in Lok Sabha that there is a plan to develop a stretch of this expressway as an e-highway (electric highway) where trucks and buses can run at a speed of 120 km/hour, which will bring down the logistics cost by 70% as heavy vehicles will run on electricity instead of diesel. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the construction of this project, and is expected to be completed by March 2022. It will also have 4 dedicated lanes for electric vehicles in the entire expressway, out of 8 lanes.
It is being developed as an environment-friendly expressway with a tree cover of 20 lakh trees, watered with drip irrigation along the entire stretch with a rainwater harvesting system at every 500 metres. Expressway will be lit using a mix of power supply from state grids and Solar energy.
A combined length of 2.5 km of this 8-lane wide expressway will have run under 5 natural-looking wildlife crossings on the stretches identified as the known wildlife corridors between tiger reserves. One of these crossings will be a tunnel in Mukundara Hills National Park, which will be the country's second 8-lane wide tunnel, after Samruddhi Mahamarg. This will be the second expressway in India to have wildlife crossings, after Samruddhi Mahamarg. The crossing over the expressway will have 8 meters tall noise barrier walls on either side, and the uncovered stretch of expressway passing through the wildlife corridor will have 6-foot tall walls on both sides of the expressway to prevent animals and pedestrians from entering to minimize the impact of traffic zipping past at speeds up to 120 km/hour. This expressway runs through Aravalli Wildlife corridors especially affecting corridors in four Tiger Reserves of Rajasthan, namely Sariska Tiger Reserve, Mukundara Hills National Park, Ranthambore National Park and Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary, all of which are important Tiger reserves of India. There is overcrowding at Ranthambore, and tigers have migrated to other sanctuaries and reserves via the Aravalli wildlife corridor, for example, at least 3 tigers have migrated out of Ranthambore to Ramgarh since 2013.
Wildlife experts have expressed concerns as there are not sufficient wildlife crossings on this very wide 8-lane expressway, especially between Sariska and Ranthambore reserves as well as Sariska reserve and leopard habitat forests of Delhi-Gurugram-Faridabad-Nuh in Delhi NCR. This area is also a part of the leopard corridor of NCR. Additional wildlife crossings are needed at several locations, such as on the alignment near Faridabad (alignment near Nimot-Kot-Dhouj forested hills), hills east of Bhadas (hill from Devla Nagli to Rithat to Khanpur Ghati), hills near Firozpur Jhirka (crossings near Kheri Kalan, Regarh, Bhakro Ji, Bas Burja), Naugaon, Dohli, near Alwar and Sariska (Ghata-Chirawanda-Kalakha), Nangal Todiyal, Bandikui, Dausa, Chhateda, etc.
The DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway will be directly connected with various other expressways like the DelhiâÂÂNoida Direct Flyway (DND Flyway) in Delhi, Western Peripheral Expressway (which will connect it to the DelhiâÂÂKatra Expressway) in Haryana, Eastern Peripheral Expressway (which will connect it to the DelhiâÂÂDehradun Expressway in Haryana.
Paniyala (between Narnaul-Kotputli)-Alwar-Barodameo 86.5 km long 6-lane access-controlled National Highway, will also connect DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway to the Trans-Haryana Expressway via the NH-148B. Paniyala-Alwar-Barodameo Highway (Barodameo interchange on DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway), 86 km 6-lane highway costing â¹2876.42 crore including land acquisition, with 23 10m wide and 3m high wildlife underpasses for leopards and tigers of Sariska Tiger Reserve and 46 vehicle underpasses, started construction in March 2024 which by February 2025 was 15% complete and had already acquired 60 km of required total 86 km land, has target completion date of 2026.
NH-248A Nuh-Alwar National Highway, is being upgraded from single-lane to 3-lane highway with paved shoulder, with construction starting from September 2025 and 24 months expected completion by September 2027.
Alwar-Agra Expressway (Barodameo-Agra spur from DelhiâÂÂMumbai Expressway), proposed mix of greenfield and brownfield upgrade, commenced DPR preparation in 2025 which proposed 3 route options including via Bharatpur to Agra where it will connect to Agra-Gwalior Expressway.
NH-530B Deeg-Govardhan-Govardhan-Mathura was upgraded in 2025 to 4-lane highway with paved shoulders as part of wider Deeg-Govardhan-Mathura-Bareilly national highway.
"NH-148NG KotaâÂÂIndore Expressway" (190 km 6-lane access-controlled highspeed highway upgrade) will connect it to HyderabadâÂÂIndore Expressway (via Nanded-Akola-Omkareshwar-Indore), which will intersect MumbaiâÂÂNagpur Expressway at Akola.
It will connect to AhmedabadâÂÂVadodara Expressway and at Ahmedabad it will connect to AhmedabadâÂÂDholera Expressway. At Surat, it will connect to SuratâÂÂChennai Expressway.
It will be connected with MumbaiâÂÂNagpur Expressway (near Amne, northeast of Mumbai), MumbaiâÂÂPune Expressway (near Navi Mumbai International Airport at Vichumbe, southeast of Mumbai) and NH-66 Mumbai-Goa Expressway (near Vichumbe, southeast of Mumbai).