Indian road congress: Road infra in Uttar Pradesh will be on a par with US by 2024-end: Gadkari
UNION MINISTER for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said he has made a promise to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that road infrastructure in the state would be on par with that in the US before the end of 2024.
Addressing the inaugural session of the 81st Annual Session of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) in Lucknow on Saturday as chief guest, Gadkari said he has made a promise to develop roads in UP at an expenditure of around Rs 5 lakh crore before the end of 2024.
Gadkari announced that projects of Rs 8,000 crore for development of roads have been sanctioned. These projects are for connecting Moradabad to Kashipur, Shahabad-Hardoi bypass, Shajahanpur-Shahabad by-pass, Ghazipur-Ballia bypass, etc and 13 ROBs at around Rs 1,000 crore.
