India, June 26 -- Travel time between Delhi and Jaipur is likely to reduce by about an hour as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) plans to open a 67-km-long spur from the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, connecting Bandikui with Jaipur through a four-lane access-controlled road from the middle of July, officials said.

This 67-km-long high-speed corridor will help commuters travelling between Delhi, Gurugram and Jaipur to avoid the congested NH 44 and it will also reduce the distance between these cities by 12 kilometres. Currently, people going to Jaipur from Delhi have to exit the Delhi-Mumbai expressway at the Bandhrej toll plaza in Dausa district, from where they have to take the congested Jaipur-Agra highway (NH 44), which slows...