Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will arrive in the city on Saturday. He will land at Dumna Airport to 11.25 am. From the airport, the Union Minister will proceed to Madan Mahal, where at 12 noon he will inaugurate Madhya Pradesh’s longest Damoh Naka-Madan Mahal flyover along with several national highway projects. Following the ceremony, Gadkari will leave the venue at 1.30 pm and reach the residence of State PWD Minister Rakesh Singh at South Civil Lines by 1.40 pm. Later, he will attend a function in Civic Centre from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm.

 

The Union Minister is scheduled to depart for Nagpur by a special flight from Dumna Airport at 4 pm. Extensive preparations have been made for the grand inauguration ceremony of State’s longest and country’s first-of-a-kind flyover, on Saturday. Union Minister Gadkari along with Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav will inaugurate the much-awaited corridor. It is built at a cost of around Rs 1,100 crore and has a distinction of first-of-its-kind in India. To its uniqueness, the flyover has a single-span cable-supported bridge of 192 metres, built directly across the live Madan Mahal railway station.

 

It span represents a rare feat of urban engineering. The project introduces an integrated elevated rotary above the station a multi-arm junction suspended in the air. This unusual combination of an over-station cable-supported span with an aerial rotary is first in the country. The corridor also integrates three steel bowstring bridges, each around 70 metres. It will shorten journey between Damoh Naka to Madan Mahal by about 35 minutes.