LUCKNOW: With another infrastructure project - the
Ganga expressway - all set to get financial sanction in the annual budget for financial year 2020-21, Uttar Pradesh will be the only state to have seven expressways, the in the country.
Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (
UPIEDA) CEO Awanish Awasthi confirmed that the new budget for will have financial sanction for the Ganga expressway, construction of which might take off this year.
The proposed Ganga Expressway, to be around 628 km long, and longest in the country when completed, would start from Meerut and end at Allahabad.
Awasthi said that unlike the past project of similar concept in the Mayawati regime, when it was struck down on environmental issues, the proposed Ganga expressway of the present BJP government, does not have any such concern as it was not passing through the banks of the Ganga.
Chief minister
Yogi Adityanath has been pushing the Ganga expressway hard and it is being marketed as his dream project and could take off by the end of this year or next year.
The Expressway is likely to pass through Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh and end at Allahabad.