A stretch of elevated road that commuters have waited years for finally opened on Tuesday, 29 September 2026 — and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta says it is only the beginning. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, guided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for infrastructure projects worth over ₹1,941 crore across the national capital, with the long-pending Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3 as the centrepiece.

Barapullah Phase-3: signal-free from Mayur Vihar to AIIMS

The headline project is the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, a corridor that finally stitches together Mayur Vihar Phase-1 in east Delhi with AIIMS in the south — entirely signal-free. For the millions of commuters, patients, and students who grind through this route daily, that is not a small upgrade. It is a fundamentally different journey.

CM Gupta described the opening in her post as a new chapter — 'dilli ke vikas ki yatra mein ek aur mahatvapurna adhyay' (another important chapter in Delhi's development journey). The elevated corridor, part of a multi-phase transport master plan that dates to the early 2000s, had been delayed across successive governments. Its completion now removes one of east Delhi's most stubborn bottlenecks.

Mukarba Chowk, Modi Mill flyover, and Loni underpass round out the package

Three additional projects flesh out the ₹1,941-crore bundle. The Mukarba Chowk Underpass targets chronic congestion on the northern corridor linking outer Delhi to the ring road network. The Modi Mill–Savitri Cinema Flyover addresses a pressure point in south Delhi's dense arterial grid. And the Loni Underpass eases movement on the city's northeastern fringe, where Delhi bleeds into the NCR.

Together, the four projects represent a concerted bet on grade-separated infrastructure — elevated roads and underpasses that physically separate through-traffic from local movement — as the primary tool for cutting congestion in a city of over 20 million people.

'Viksit Delhi' and the BJP's urban infrastructure push

The political framing is deliberate. CM Gupta anchored the announcement to the #ViksitDelhi and #SevaSankalpAbhiyan hashtags, tying Delhi's road network directly to the national 'Viksit Bharat by 2047' narrative. The BJP, which returned to power in Delhi earlier in 2026 after a decade in opposition at the state level, has made urban infrastructure a signature deliverable — positioning central funding routed through the Home Ministry as proof of a 'double-engine government' dividend.

Senior ministers and legislators present at the event included BJP Delhi unit chief and Union Minister of State Harsh Malhotra, cabinet colleagues Pravesh Sahib Singh, Ashish Sood, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Ravinder Indraj Singh, and Kapil Mishra, along with Dr Pankaj Kumar Singh and MLAs Tarvinder Singh Marwah and Ravinder Singh Negi.

The real test, of course, will come in the weeks after the ribbon-cutting — whether travel times actually fall on the Mayur Vihar–AIIMS stretch, and whether the underpasses deliver relief at Mukarba Chowk and Loni. Delhi's commuters have seen grand promises before. This time, the concrete is already in place.