UP selects seven lowest bidders for showcase expressway project

Purvanchal Expressway is one of most ambitious infrastructure projects of the state government, which it plans to promote before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Another proposed project — Bundelkhand Expressway — is in preliminary stage.

Purvanchal Expressway has been divided into eight “packages”, or segments, to connect Lucknow, Barabanki, Faizabad, Ambedkarnagar, Amethi, Sultanpur, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur. Lowest bidders for each of the eight packages are: NCC Ltd for package 1, Apco Infratech (package 2), Larsen & Toubro Ltd (packages 3 and 5), PNC Infratech (package 4), Gayatri Projects (package 6), Afcons Infrastructure (package 7) and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (package 8).