Chief Secretary Rajive Kumar directed officials to initiate appropriate action to inspect the proposal of Ganga link Expressway to develop internal traffic system of Kanpur City area on the line of Worli Sea link, Mumbai.
The UPSIDC will act as the nodal agency for the project for collecting suggestion from various departments and has been asked to prepare a DPR and present it to the government.
Keeping in view the dense population of Kanpur city, Kumar directed concerned departments to provide better traffic system to the people on a priority basis. The top official presided over a meeting on the proposal of developing Ganga link Expressway (Inner-Ring Road) with concerned departments on Wednesday.
Advisor to UPSIDC for Kanpur, Neeraj Srivastava said that the city being densely populated, the traffic was slow and congestion was a permanent problem and hence elevated roads would be useful in providing seamless traffic and ensure road safety.
Chief Executive officer, UP Industrial Expressway Development Authority, Avneesh Kumar Awashthi, Secretary, PWD, Sameer Verma, Secretary, Urban Development, G.S. Priyadarshi, Managing Director, UPSIDC, Ranbir Prasad, IG of Kanpur Range Alok Singh, District Magistrate of Kanpur, Surendra Singh, Vice President of Kanpur Development Authority, Saumya Agarwal, Advisor to UPSIDC, Kanpur Area, Neeraj Srivastava, Municipal Commissioner, Kanpur City, Santosh Kumar Sharma and other senior officers of NHAI and PWD were present during the meeting.