Uttar Pradesh: Adani Group set to build country’s longest e-way, Ganga expressway, for Rs 17,000 crore

NEW DELHI: The Adani Group has bagged the contract to build India’s longest expressway project — the Rs 17,000-crore and 594-km-long Meerut-Prayagraj eway — in UP.
The group will build 464 km from Budaun to Prayagraj that comprises 80% of this proposed expressway in three groups — 151.7 km from Budaun to Hardoi, 155.7 km from Hardoi to Unnao and 157 km from Unnao to Prayagraj. Adani Enterprises Ltd will construct three groups of access controlled six-lane expressway, expandable to eight lanes.
AEL has received the letter of award from UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority to implement these three major stretches in PPP mode on design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis with a concession period of 30 years.