India, March 11 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Gurugram leg of the Dwarka expressway, a mammoth project that will link hitherto poorly connected neighbourhoods in the National Capital Region (NCR), and decongest the area.

The 29-km expressway is being built in four packages - two in Gurugram (19km, from Bajghera at the Delhi-Haryana border to the cloverleaf flyover at Kherki Daula in Gurugram) that were thrown open on Monday, and two more in Delhi (10km, from Shiv Murti at Mahipalpur to Bajghera) that are still under construction. According to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials, around 10% of the work in the Delhi segment remains.

Currently, one has an uninterrupted drive from the cloverleaf...