Ganga Expressway gets cabinet approval
: In a push to infrastructure development, the state cabinet on Thursday gave a go ahead to the 594-km Meerut to Prayagraj controlled-access Ganga Expressway, which is to come up at an estimated cost of ₹36, 230 crore. It also approved a proposal to develop Lalitpur airstrip into an airport in Bundelkhand region of the state.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over the meeting of the state cabinet that approved the Greenfield six-lane expressway project, expandable to 8-lane, having a maximum permissible speed limit of 120 km per hour.
Briefing media persons, minister for MSMEs and government spokesman Siddharth Nath Singh said the network of expressway projects coming up in the state would give a push to achieving the objective of making Uttar Pradesh a trillion-dollar economy.
