Context: Recently, the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSME Shri Nitin Gadkari has reviewed the proposed Chambal Expressway Project.

About Chambal Expressway Project

• It is a Rs 8200 crore Project passing through Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
• It envisages connecting Bhind (Madhya Pradesh) to Kota (Rajasthan).
• It also will provide cross connectivity with Golden Quadrilateral’s Delhi-Kolkata corridor, North-South Corridor, East-West Corridor and Delhi-Mumbai -Expressway.
• It may be added the 404 km (approx) project provides alternate route from Kanpur to Kota through MP & then it will join Delhi Mumbai Corridor.

Source: The Hindu