Uttar Pradesh is set to get another expressway. Hindustan Times’ sister publication Livehindustan reported that National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has appointed a consultant for preparing detailed project report (DPR) for 500-kilometre-long Gorakhpur-Shamli expressway.
The final router of the proposed expressway will be known only after the DPR is finalised. But Livehindustan reported that it will pass through 20 districts, including Sant Kabirnagar, Basti and Siddharth Nagar.
This will be third expressway to start from Gorakhpur, Livehindustan reported. Currently, a link expressway to connect the Purvanchal Expressway is being constructed in the region. Livehindustan added that 40 per cent work on this link road is completed. A DPR is being prepared for another 519-kilometer-long road which will link Gorakhpur to Siliguri in West Bengal, it further said.
