Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to inaugurate the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway today. The expressway will connect the Chitrakoot in the underdeveloped Bundelkhand region with the Lucknow-Agra Expressway near Etawah.
296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway is the fourth expressway project in Uttar Pradesh and this expressway has been completed in record 28 months – 8 months ahead of its deadline, the government said. PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the project in February 2020.
While laying the foundation stone in February 2020, Prime Minister Modi said that the project “will create thousands of jobs and connect the common people with facilities available in bigger cities”.
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Built for Rs 14,850 crore, the four-lane expressway, which can be expanded to six lanes later, will cover six districts — Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun, Mahoba, Banda, and Hamirpur — before terminating at Gonda village near Bharatkoot area of Chitrakoot district in Bundelkhand.
The expressway is expected to reduce travel time between Delhi and Chitrakoot to just six hours from the earlier 9-10 hours.
The Bundelkhand expressway is also crucial to the success of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh defense corridor project.
Work on an industrial corridor has also begun in the districts of Banda and Jalaun. The defense corridor project, worth Rs 20,000 crore, has been planned for over 5,071 hectares across the state’s western, central, and Bundelkhand regions.
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