Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the eight-lane, 354-km long Purvanchal Expressway in Amazgarh during his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh.
The expressway links Lucknow to Ghazipur. The expressway will also connect several important towns such as Amethi, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, and Mau.
Delhi will also be connected via the expressway once it is complete to several major towns and cities of Uttar Pradesh, as per a tweet by PMO earlier. “Poorvanchal Expressway is going to take to new heights, hopes and aspirations of UP. The expressway will cost more than Rs 23,000 crore. All the villages and cities that fall between Lucknow & Ghazipur will see a good change,” Modi said in a rally in Azamgarh today.
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The Expressway is expected to be complete in 36 months that will connect the Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow to the Ghazipur city in the eastern part of the state. It will further reduce the travel time between the two cities to 4 and a half to five hours. The expressway is estimated to cost about Rs 23,000 crore. It will also be linked to the Varanasi via a separate link road.
The events also sparked major controversy as former Chief Minister and opposition chief of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Akhilesh Yadav claimed his own government’s project was relaunched. “This was originally Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway, but the word Samajwadi has been dropped,” Yadav was quoted as saying in a press conference by news agency PTI.
However, UP CM Yogi Adityanath attacked the SP president Yadav and said that the expressway does not belong to Samajwadi Party or Congress, it belongs to the people.
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