Continuing the spate of launching mega projects before Uttar Pradesh assembly elections slated early next year, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to start work on the six-lane Ganga Expressway in December and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lay its foundation in Shahjahanpur on December 18.
A large rally has been organised at Roza railway grounds in Shahjahanpur the same day.
The 594 km-long Ganga Expressway will start from Meerut and go up to Prayagraj, touching Hapur, Bulandshahr, Budaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli and Pratapgarh districts. The six-lane expressway could be expanded to eight-lane later and is being developed at a cost of Rs 36,290 crore.
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Talking about the foundation-laying programme of Ganga Expressway, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “It is an ambitious project that would create vast opportunities for development and employment. About 96 per cent of land for laying the mega project has been acquired for its development. There would be petrol pumps, eating joints and other civic amenities on the expressway. Besides, the government is trying to make heliports at a few spots as well. On both sides of the expressway, industrial clusters would be developed in different districts. An airstrip will also be constructed in Shahjahanpur on the Ganga Expressway.”
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated Purvanchal Expressway at Sultanpur and work is going on at the Bundelkhand Expressway.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) and UPIEDA Chief Executive Officer Awanish Awasthi said that one side of the Bundelkhand Expressway would be open for traffic on December 31 this year and both sides of the expressway would become functional by April next year. Similarly, he said, traffic on one side of Link Expressway connecting Gorakhpur with Purvanchal Expressway would start from next June.
