Lucknow: After inaugurating the freeway Purvanchal and put the foundation of the Jewar airport, PM Narendra Modi will launch the ambitious toll road project from Shahjahanpur on Saturday.
This step can lend fresh traction to the BJP development narrative ahead of the high assembly poll, which is expected in the next few months.
The length of the 594-km freeway, the longest and longest country, will begin with the village of Bijauli along the national highway 334 in Meerut and end in Judapur Dandu Village near the Bypass of NH-2 in Prayagraj.
It will cross 10 districts including Hapur, Bulandshahar, Amroha, Sambhal, Badun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Raebareli and Pratapgarh.
In Shahjahanpur where a 3.5 km long flying foundation was proposed to be built for emergency landings and take off the fighter aircraft.
The source said that the Yogi Aditentalath government sought to highlight the freeway as one of the biggest infrastructure projects that claimed that the basic shovel work was carried out at the peak of a pandemic.
Official sources on the freeway and industrial development authorities (upeida) stated that 94% of the land had been obtained for projects from around 83,000 farmers in the past year when the second wave Corona has brought economic development and others to termination of milling.
Most importantly, this project includes most of the Western region that has been affected by farmers’ riots against three agricultural laws.
Projected as a “historical milestone” in the development of state infrastructure, the freeway will provide direct road connectivity to the national capital region of the east to the top.
“This will increase agricultural income, trade, tourism and industry and will also function as an industrial corridor,” said the spokesman.
The project has the potential to armed BJP to increase the tone of its development even when the opposition flexes its political muscles to capture turmeric juggernaut in state polls, it is expected to be scheduled in the next few months, said political observer.
A government spokesman said that the state government had approved the Ganga Expressway project on November 26 last year at a cost of Rs 36,230 Crore.
Sources of Upeida said that around 18.55,000 puppies will be planted along the toll roads for environmental protection, in addition to operating the project through the use of solar power.
The six-track freeway, can be expanded to eight lines will have a width of 120 meters wide, the total land area obtained for road construction.
It is also proposed to have a width road 3.75 meters on the one hand so that the residents of the nearest villages from the project area may get smooth transportation facilities.
Along with this, the nine centers of public ease, seven railroad bondages, 14 main bridges, 126 small bridges and 381 underpasses will be built for the comfort of the people.
Exchange facilities will also be provided at 17 places to enter and come out on the toll road.
A service road will also be built for residents of villages around the project.