The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), has abandoned the two-lane to four-lane national highway project between Kota and Jhalawar in Rajasthan due to certain issues.

The Ministry of Environment & Forests' (MoEF's) refusal had come some time back, but hectic parleys and requests finally failed to pave the way for the project. The state forest department had informed the MoEF that the project would involve felling of trees and would also run through the Darrah wildlife sanctuary and affect the tiger reserve there badly.

The Darrah National Park - also called the Rajiv Gandhi National Park - consists of three wildlife sanctuaries of Darrah, Chambal and Jaswant Sagar.

NHAI proposed a four-lane highway stretch of 88.06 km. Of the total, 54 km road alignment was impacting 273 ha of forest cover. The project has been 'foreclosed' as the construction work on 70 per cent of the proposed alignment cannot be taken up due to refusal by MoEF. The project was announced in 2009.

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