India, July 10 -- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning a major eastern extension of the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II), widely known as Delhi's third Ring Road, to ease pressure on key arterial roads such as the Ring Road, Outer Ring Road, Kalindi Kunj, and Sarai Kale Khan by routing traffic through northeast Delhi into Ghaziabad and ultimately Noida, officials aware of the development said on Wednesday.

The new six-lane highway will begin at Alipur in North Delhi-currently the northern endpoint of UER-II-and run through Tronica City in Ghaziabad, connecting to the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway near Mandaula. From there, it will wind through Ghitora and Farukhnagar, link up with the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, and end a...