The upcoming 594-km-long Ganga Expressway, as grand in its conception as the river along which it will be developed, is finally off the drawing board, having received an environmental clearance from the state-level environment assessment authority recently. Work on the Rs 36,000-crore greenfield expressway, which would connect Meerut in the western part of Uttar Pradesh to Prayagraj in the east, is all set to begin by the end of December, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone for the project.
The tender process for executing the project on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode is in its final stages and the project is likely to be awarded in the coming days. Adani Enterprises, Ashoka Buildcon and IRB Infrastructure Developers are the three companies that have bid for the six-lane, access-controlled expressway project.
