Rajiv Chowk Flyover Tenders Target March 2027

GURUGRAM: Two more elevated links are planned at Rajiv Chowk to separate the heavy traffic moving between Delhi, NH-8 and Sohna Road, with the National Highways Authority of India expected to invite tenders by March 2027. The schedule was placed before a district coordination meeting this week as agencies worked through a remaining land issue.

One flyover will begin on the Delhi-side service road and carry vehicles towards Sohna. The second will take traffic arriving from Sohna Road towards Delhi. These are directional links rather than a single bridge over the junction, and their value will depend on whether they remove turning traffic from the surface-level conflict points without creating a new merge bottleneck farther ahead.

Officials said land belonging to the telecommunications department must be resolved before tendering. That detail explains why the target sits in 2027 even though the broad alignment is already under discussion. Once the land position is clear, the bid documents will still need final engineering, cost and construction-stage traffic arrangements for one of Gurugram's busiest transport nodes.

Rajiv Chowk carries more than through traffic on the expressway. It connects the old city, the district courts and mini-secretariat side, Sohna Road and multiple residential and commercial sectors. A disruption in one movement quickly spills into service lanes and approach roads. Building two ramps while keeping that system moving will be as important as the permanent design.

The junction is being rethought again

NHAI has also proposed closing the underground non-motorised transport passage at Rajiv Chowk, citing low use and safety problems when the facility waterlogs during the monsoon. Any closure would require a credible surface alternative. A junction cannot be described as streamlined if vehicles save time while pedestrians and cyclists are left to cross fast, wide approaches without protection.

The same coordination meeting widened the conversation beyond the flyovers. Officials were told that most of the Gurugram-Pataudi-Rewari highway work is expected by September, with two major structures continuing into next year. Authorities also discussed continuous footpaths within roughly 500 metres of the two planned Sector 29 Metro stations, an acknowledgement that road and transit projects need a usable walking connection.

Another direction concerned 436 bigha of land along both sides of the Gurugram-Faridabad Road that has returned to the municipal corporation following Supreme Court orders. The land is to be used for additional green cover. That instruction sits in contrast to the hard infrastructure at Rajiv Chowk, but both decisions shape the same urban corridor and should be planned rather than executed as isolated projects.

For now, March 2027 is a tender target, not a completion promise. The next milestones are resolution of the land issue, publication of a detailed bid and disclosure of how traffic and pedestrian movement will be maintained during construction. Gurugram has enough experience with major junction projects to know that an elevated road can redistribute congestion. The test for these flyovers is whether the full approach network works better once the ramps land.