Chief Secretary Deepak Singhal directed officials to organise a meeting for framing a vision document for development of lucknow-Agra Expressway and Purvanchal Expressway as special economic hubs within 10 days.
The two expressways will comprise of agriculture and horticulture hubs, tourism, dairy, industrial areas.
The Chief Secretary was reviewing the progress of lucknow-Agra and Purvanchal expressways here on Monday.
Singhal asked officials to ensure regular monitoring and implementation as per daily target of the remaining work of lucknow - Agra Expressway and to complete it within the scheduled timeframe.
He said that in addition to ensuring inauguration of the 302 Km long expressway in October, all public utilities and facilities should be made available on the expressway.
He said that repective DMs should ensure registry of land for the 348 Km long Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway within the next one month by paying four times the cost of land to farmers as per rules on the basis of mutual agreement. He also directed for third party inspection for quality of the under-construction expressway.
The top bureaucrat asked Divisional Commissioners and District Magistrates to present a vision document for making the expressway into an industrial expressway in view of the probable industrial requirements in future.
Principal Secretary (Information) and Chairman of UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority inspected the lucknow- Agra expresswayon Sunday by travelling . a distance of 63 kms on the under construction highway and is scheduled to be inaugrated by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on October next.
Sehgal directed the construction agency to complete the remaining work in the next 40 days and instructd that 5 lakh saplings be planted along the course of the expressway from lucknow to Agra.
Sehgal also inspected the air-strtip on the expressway. He also inspected the automatic computerised paver machine laying the air strip there. The machine lays 500 to 800 meters of air strip per day and the work is scheduled to be completed by the end of September.