The expressway currently has four lanes but it can be expanded to six lanes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Bundelkhand Expressway in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. The 296-km long four-lane expressway has been constructed at a cost of around Rs 14,850 crore.
Here are the 5 points on Bundelkhand Expressway
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the four-lane expressway in February 2020. The construction work has been completed within 28 months, with the support of the Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA).
- The expressway extends from NH-35 at Gonda village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot to Etawah district of the state, where it merges with the 300 Km long Agra-Lucknow expressway.
- The expressway currently has four lanes but it can be expanded to a six-lane expressway. It will pass through seven districts of Uttar Pradesh -- Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah.
- In 2020, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the Bundelkhand Expressway will give a boost to a defence corridor that is being built in Bundelkhand.
- The Bundelkhand expressway will link the region to Delhi through Agra-Lucknow Expressway and Yamuna Expressway.
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