Union Minister for Road Transport and Infrastructure, Nitin Gadkari on Monday inaugurated Sagar Greenfield Link Road among other highway projects in a major infra boost to Madhya Pradesh, especially the backward area of Bundelkhand. The road corridor will cost around Rs. 11,300 crores.
The link road will connect Bhopal to Kanpur and it will reduce the distance between the two cities by about 21 kilometres and improve connectivity from Bhopal to Lucknow, Varanasi and Prayagraj. It will also help improve the logistics operations of the cement and mineral transportation between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
