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PNB extends credit line of Rs 750 cr for Gorakhpur Link Expressway

The 91-km expressway will connect Gorakhpur district, the pocket borough of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, with another expressway project, the 340-km Purvanchal Expressway.

Work on the Purvanchal Expressway in progress. Infra projects, which the previous regime proposed and started, are incomplete for lack of funds,  sloppy pace of work, or allegations of corruption.	Photo: UPEIDA
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Gorakhpur Link Expressway is the fifth greenfield expressway project in UP after Yamuna Expressway

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
In a major boost to infrastructure projects in Uttar Pradesh post the Covid-19 lockdown, public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has extended a credit line of Rs 750 for the Gorakhpur Link Expressway, estimated to cost Rs 5,876 crore.

The 91-km expressway will connect Gorakhpur district, the pocket borough of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, with another expressway project, the 340-km Purvanchal Expressway.

The cheque for Rs 750 crore was handed over by the PNB officials to the chief minister at his official residence last evening. In his address, Adityanath spoke about the role played by the banks in improving the people’s

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