Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to inaugurate the ambitious mega project of Purvanchal Expressway under Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) in the state’s Sultanpur district on Tuesday.
The Purvanchal Expressway, which has been constructed at a cost of about ₹22,500 crore, starts from Chandsarai village, located near the existing Lucknow-Sultanpur Road (NH-731), in Lucknow district. It ends at Haidaria village on National Highway 31 in Ghazipur, 18 km from the UP-Bihar border, in Ghazipur district.
Its total length is 340.824km and it is a fully access-controlled six-lane expressway, which can be upgraded to eight lanes.
