NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will bid out the works for a greenfield expressway between Lucknow and Kanpur in the next two months. The work will start by May this year. This 63-km expressway to be built at Rs 4,200 crore is the one of the first six greenfield expressways which the government has identified under the first phase of its flagship Bharatmala Pariyojna.
Responding to a supplementary question during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Union road transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari said the land acquisition is nearly complete for this project and the alignment has been fixed. “We will start the work in the next three months,” he said.
The expressway will be of 4/6 lanes and can be expanded to six lanes. According to an estimate, around 25,000 vehicles (PCUs) will use this stretch and the new road would help reduce the congestion on the existing NH connecting the two cities in Uttar Pradesh.
