Highway projects worth Rs 5,000 crore are under way to decongest the National Capital Region, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari reportedly conveyed. Transport Minister Gadkari was addressing a gathering while laying the foundation stone of a Rs 3,580-crore highway project. The over 59-km-long highway project will start at Ring Road-DND junction and passing through Kalindi bypass and Faridabad-Ballabhgarh bypass, it will finish at the interchange of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at KMP. The work on the 59-km project will begin within two months and the entire project will be completed in two years. The project will decongest Delhi with reduction of traffic in Ashram-Badarpur-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh region. The project would be in addition to nine other projects being implemented for decongesting the National Capital Region.