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UP's bid to keep expressway work in the fast lane amid Covid-19 crisis

Four expressway projects with an estimated outlay of Rs 80,000 crore are in different stages of development in the state

Road contruction, infrastructure projects, highways
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The UP Assembly elections are also due early next year and the ruling BJP will seek re-election against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, the farm stir, and an economic slowdown

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a public meeting in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi on November 30 last year, waxed eloquent on the Yogi Adityanath government, saying Uttar Pradesh had earned the sobriquet of ‘Express Pradesh’ owing to the rapid pace of infra projects, particularly expressways.

Four expressway projects — 340-km Purvanchal Expressway, 296-km Bundelkhand Expressway, 91-km Gorakhpur Link Expressway, and 628-km Ganga Expressway —with an estimated outlay of Rs 80,000 crore are in different stages of development in the state.

Purvanchal Expressway, estimated to cost Rs 23,000 crore, is likely to witness its main carriageway thrown open for

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