Yogi plans expressway to every region of UP by 2022

The Uttar Pradesh government is focusing on completing several expressways before the next assembly elections in 2022. In 2017, the election pitch of the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav centred around Agra-Lucknow Taj expressway.

Similarly, in 2007 the then chief minister Mayawati’s achievement was Yamuna Expressway. The Yogi Aditya Nath government is working on four large projects which could be the highlight of his government before elections in 2022. First project on the priority list is the Purvanchal Expressway, a 341 km long expressway from Lucknow to Ghazipur, passing through Amethi, Ambedkar Nagar, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Azamgarh and Mau.


As per the government data, 96% of the land acquisition has been completed. On Sunday, UP chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey and UP Expressway's Industrial Development Authority CEO Awanish Awasthi instructed concerned authorities to c o m - plete the re- maining land acquisition by June 15.


“We are targeting to open the main carriageway for public by August 2020,” says Awanish Awasthi. There would be 89-km link way on the expressway to connect it to Gorakhpur for which E-bids would be announced soon. Another project on the line is Bundelkhand expressway which would connect the backward districts of Bundelkhand such as Banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun to Agra Lucknow expressway in Etawah.


Around 79 per cent land acquisition has been completed for this 296 Km expressway and e-bids are going to take place in the current month. Currently the target is to complete the project by 2021. On January 29 this year, Nath announced Ganga Expressway from Meerut in West UP to Prayagraj.


The 600 KM expressway will connect districts such as Meerut, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Sambhal, Badaun, Farrukhabad, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh to Prayagraj. The survey for the project is slated to being in coming months.