India, Aug. 14 -- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to put up about 15km of fence on both sides of the Delhi Meerut Expressway (DME) stretch in Ghaziabad to reduce pedestrian fatalities and accidents, the officials said.

The proposal to fence the DME stretch in Ghaziabad was put forward by the Ghaziabad traffic police before the NHAI officials recently. And, the NHAI officials said that a proposal to this effect has been sent to their headquarters.

"We expect the proposal to be approved in a fortnight. Thereafter, the work to erect a fence on both the outer sides of the DME, will commence. It will be funded by NHAI, and the work is expected to be completed in about 5-6 months. The move will be beneficial as man...