Western Peripheral Expressway
Kundli–Manesar–Palwal Expressway
Also known as KMP Expressway
136 km
Open
Haryana
Expressway
Route
Western Peripheral Expressway runs 136 km from Kundli, Haryana to Palwal, Haryana.
Crosses Haryana.
Through Kundli, Bahadurgarh, Manesar, Sohna and Palwal.
Why it matters
Before this road existed, a truck going from Punjab to Rajasthan or Gujarat had to grind through Delhi's streets, adding hours to the trip and a great deal of smoke to the capital's air. The KMP, together with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway, lets that traffic go around Delhi instead. It has also turned the Haryana towns along it — Kundli, Kharkhauda, Manesar, Sohna — into fast-growing factory and warehouse belts, because a plot beside the expressway is now within reach of every highway leaving Delhi.
History
The KMP Expressway loops around the west side of Delhi, from Kundli near Sonipat down to Palwal, passing the big factory town of Manesar. Like its eastern twin, it was planned after the Supreme Court asked for ways to keep trucks out of Delhi. It was one of the country's slowest big road projects: work began in the mid-2000s, land disputes and a change of contractor dragged it out for more than a decade, and the courts had to push the Haryana government repeatedly to finish it. The Manesar–Palwal part finally opened in 2016 and the Kundli–Manesar part on 19 November 2018, completing the road. Unlike most expressways it was built by the Haryana state government through HSIIDC, not by NHAI, and Haryana has since used it as a spine for new industrial towns and townships along its length.
Good to know
- Forms the western half of a roughly 270 km expressway ring around Delhi, with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway as the other half.
- Built and run by the Haryana government through HSIIDC, not by NHAI.
- The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway begins at a junction with the KMP near Sohna.
- Lets long-distance trucks skip Delhi entirely, cutting traffic and pollution in the capital.
- About 135.6 km of 6-lane access-controlled road, all of it inside Haryana.
- Took well over a decade to build — the plan dates from the mid-2000s but the last section opened only in November 2018.
- Toll is charged by the distance you actually travel and collected through FASTag.
- It meets NH 44 at both ends — Kundli in the north and Palwal in the south — and crosses NH 9 at Bahadurgarh and NH 48 near Manesar.
Timeline
- 2016Manesar–Palwal section opens to traffic
- 2018Kundli–Manesar section inaugurated (19 November), completing the expressway
Key junctions
- Kundli — the northern end, meeting NH 44 towards Sonipat, Panipat and Chandigarh
- Bahadurgarh — crossing of NH 9, the Delhi–Rohtak–Hisar road
- Manesar — meets NH 48, the Delhi–Jaipur highway, beside Haryana's biggest industrial town
- Sohna — the point where the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway branches off southwards
- Palwal — the southern end, meeting NH 44 towards Mathura and Agra
On the road
End to end takes roughly two hours and the traffic is mostly trucks, so keep to the left unless overtaking. Fuel pumps, toilets and food places are thin on the ground compared with a national highway, and lighting is patchy at night, so fill up before you get on. Tolling is distance-based through FASTag, which means a short hop costs only a little. The Sohna–Palwal stretch, being the oldest, has the roughest surface.
More details
- Lanes
- 6 lanes, access-controlled