Lucknow-Kanpur expressway is now National E-way 6

LUCKNOW: The under-construction expressway between Lucknow and Kanpur, already declared a National Highway, has been notified as NE6 in The Gazette of India released on December 15.
Giving this information to TOI here, Diwaker Tripathi, constituency representative of defence minister Rajnath Singh who is also the city MP, said that the NHAI on Friday officially gazetted the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway as national expressway six.
He said that there were only five national expressways in the country. “Lucknow-Kanpur e-way is the UP’s first national e-way and credit for this unique distinction goes to Rajnath Singh who had been in touch with the Union surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari for implementation of infrastructure projects in his constituency.
The work on Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway, which would be elevated on pillars, may start from March, he said and added that the project cost is likely to be Rs 4,700 crore, including the expenses to be incurred on the land acquisition.
In the past six years of his term as MP in the NDA government, Rajnath Singh has dedicated several developmental projects to the tune of Rs 29,000 crore.
With the construction of the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway, Unnao district which had been neglected for decades after being sandwiched between Lucknow and Kanpur, would also get developmental projects and manufacturing units of the defence industrial corridor would get adequate land in this tiny district, Tripathi added