PURVANCHAL EXPRESSWAY GS - 3 GOVERNMENT POLICIES & INTERVENTION, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

18 Nov PURVANCHAL EXPRESSWAY GS – 3 GOVERNMENT POLICIES & INTERVENTION, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Posted at 18 Nov 2021 in Current Affairs by Anshum Verma 0 Comments

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Expressway starts at Chandsara village, a district in Lucknow, located near the existing Lucknow-Sultanpur Road (NH-731), and it ends at Haidaria village Gazipur on National Highway 31, UP-Bihar border, in Ghazipur district is only 18 km where this 6 lanes expressway finally ends.
The expressway has been billed as the “carrier of development” to the underdeveloped Purvanchal region with an estimated cost of Rs 22,496 crore.
The expressway will develop an industrial corridor providing connectivity from the eastern to western borders of UP thereby opening the gates of development. The two major ends of the industrial corridor will be the existing Agra-Lucknow and Agra-Noida Yamuna expressways providing multi-modal transport services that would pass through the states as main arteries.
The expressway will go through major urban centres of Uttar Pradesh covering districts like Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur.
It will be equipped with modern amenities like CNG stations, electric recharge stations for vehicles and will be eased with 18 flyovers, seven railway over bridges, seven long bridges, 104 minor bridges, 13 interchanges and 271 underpasses.
It will also be connected with the defence corridor through the Agra and Bundelkhand expressways which will boost Defence Infra in the country.

National Industrial Corridor programme envisaged developing various Industrial Corridor Projects
National Industrial Corridor Development Programme aimed at development of next generation industrial cities in India which can compete with the best manufacturing and investment destinations in the world and simultaneously can develop new industrial cities as “Smart Cities”
These corridors will open the gates to economic growth & social growth by creating employment opportunities
National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) is the executive agency.

Plutus IAS Current Affairs Team Member