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New Delhi:The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has urged the Supreme Court to allow the cutting of over 800 trees in the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) for the development of a six-lane, access-controlled highway between Agra and Gwalior...
Moving two applications before a special Supreme Court bench, which monitors development activity in the TTZ area, the highways development agency, working under the road and transport ministry, said that the proposed highway would improve connectivity between Gwalior and Agra via Dholpur and Morena...
The NHAI said the greenfield highway would improve road safety along the existing link between Agra and Gwalior National Highway-44 (NH-44) while helping to save travel time, fuel and transportation costs...
The highway would require more than 504 hectares of private, agricultural and forest land, including the diversion of 2.82 hectares of reserved forest area in the National Chambal Sanctuary in the Morena district.. proposed highway will feature eight major and six minor bridges, six flyovers, one road-over bridge above a railway line, several underpasses, and box crossings...
The new green field six-lane corridor connecting Agra to Gwalior was accordingly conceptualised and proposed with the objective of decongesting the existing Agra-Gwalior section of NH-44 and, once developed, will lead to better inter-state connectivity thus, helping in better freight volume and movement pattern on the highway, the application submitted...
