The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MORT&H), Govemment of India has decided to take-up the development of various National Highway corridors to 4 laning with paved shoulders with provision of capacity augmentation under National Highway Development Program (NHDP) - III under the Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) in the different states. The Project Conidor i.e. section of NH-52 from Darah-Jhalawaar-Teendhar from Km 9+860 to Km 58+740 (Design Chainage) is one such corridor identified by the Authority. The development of Project highway includes design and construction of the Project Highway as described as here under as per the agreement.
The old National Highway 12 runs through two big states of India viz the State of Rajasthan and and the State of Madhya Pradesh. Its total length was 897.00 km out of which the length in State of Rajasthan was 408.700 km. Recently MoR&TH has revised the key node for network development opportunity of National Highways in the country. With such revision, the old NH-12 in the State of Rajasthan has become the part of the New National Highway-52. The New NH-52 originates from its junction with NH-7 near Sangrur in the State of Punjab and connects Narwana, Hisar in the State of Haryana which will connect further important cities like Fatehpur, Jaipur, Tonk, Kota, Aklera in the State of Rajasthan, Rajgarh, Biora, Dewas, Indore, Sendhwa in the State of Madhya Pradesh, Dhule, Aurangabad, Beed, Osmanabad, Solapur in the State of Maharastra, Bijapur, Hubli in the State of Karnatka and terminates at its junction with NH-66 near Ankola in this State.