News: NHAI Installs No-Entry Signs After 70,000 Challans-06-09-2026
Between January and July, traffic police wrote up around 70,000 challans for no-entry violations on the Dwarka and NH-48 expressways, and NHAI has begun fitting no-entry and speed-reduction signs where Gurugram’s highways and elevated corridors begin and end, officials said on Saturday. Another 5,945 challans came citywide in August.
The goal is firmer enforcement of bans on two- and three-wheelers, non-motorised vehicles, tractors and hydraulic trailors on "access-controlled" stretches of the Delhi-Gurugram (NH-48) and Dwarka expressways. A January 2024 NHAI order under Section 35 of the Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002 covers NH 48 from Km 14+300 to Km 42+000 and the Dwarka expressway from Shiv Murti to Kherki Daula.
No-entry boards now stand at two openings. "Slow down" and "accident-prone area" markings will go up on Gurugram-Sohna road within a week, with similar steps at spots on all three highways picked using crash records and field inspections. In July, traffic police told the district road safety committee that no-entry signs sat at intermediate points on the main carriageway, and NHAI was told to examine it.
NHAI must also fit four- to five-foot iron grills on the Sohna Road median against unsafe crossings. A senior NHAI official, requesting anonymity, said signs are up under fixes at 13 locations, the rest on Sohna Road are in process, and taller grills there were unfeasible. Grills on Dwarka expressway sections linking sectors have been going in since August.
On August 31, DCP (Traffic) Prateek Gehlot told 202 personnel at a general parade meeting to deploy strategically against overloaded trucks and two-wheelers on restricted stretches of NH-48, Dwarka, KMP and Delhi-Mumbai expressways.
