Purvanchal Expressway: Big development on way! The Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA), which is executing the Purvanchal Expressway project, has tweeted that the construction work for the 354 km long expressway is going on in full swing. The Purvanchal Expressway, said to be one of the longest in the country, will start from Chand Sarai in District Lucknow and will end at Haidaria in District Ghazipur. The foundation stone for this big infrastructure project was laid by PM Narendra Modi last year. On December 2016, the foundation stone for the same project was laid by then Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav but even half of the land had not been acquired during that time. After the Modi government came into power, the earlier tender for the expressway project was cancelled citing lack of land as the reason. However, it was revived again with certain changes in the alignment.
