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- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 418-feet national flag at Attari-Wagah border.
- This is the tallest flag in country. The BSF personnel will benefit from the surveillance system that has been installed atop the flag.
- Earlier, there was a 360-foot flag. This flag was installed in March 2017.
- Pakistan then hoisted a taller flag (400 feet) in August 2017.
- Shri Gadkari inspected the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Greenfield Expressway and Amritsar bypass.
- In Punjab, five Greenfield and economic corridors are being built at a cost of ₹29,000 crore.
- The 669-km Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Greenfield Expressway is being built at a cost of ₹40,000 crore.
- With its construction, the distance between Delhi to Katra will be reduced by 58 km.
- This expressway is being built for 137 km in Haryana. The length of this expressway in Punjab is 399 km. Out of this, the work is going on in 120 km.
- The expressway will pass through Patiala, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Gurdaspur in Punjab.
- Asia’s longest 1,300-meter cable stayed bridge over the Beas is a major feature of this corridor.
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