New Delhi: Attacking the ruling BJP over the Bundelkhand Expressway project, the Samajwadi Party chief on Saturday (July 16, 2022), hours before the opening ceremony of the expressway, shared a picture of the unfinished roadside and said, “The flurry of inauguration of half The completed Bundelkhand Expressway shows that its design has remained the same, even when the BJP government did not build an airstrip like the Agra-Lucknow Expressway built during the SP era, despite being near the Defense Corridor. Pie. Not developing it till Chitrakoot is a lack of vision.”
pic.twitter.com/KjhQPcOGoP— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) 16 July 2022
Bundelkhand Expressway will boost local economy, connectivity: PM
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Bundelkhand Expressway project will boost the local economy and connectivity of Uttar Pradesh. The Bundelkhand Expressway is being inaugurated on Saturday in Katheri village of Orai tehsil of Jalaun district.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the government is committed to increasing connectivity across the country, a key feature of which is to work towards improving road infrastructure.
About Bundelkhand Expressway
“A significant effort in this direction was the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of Bundelkhand Expressway by the Prime Minister on February 29, 2020. The work on the expressway has been completed within 28 months and will now be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. The PMO statement said.
The 296 km four-lane expressway has been constructed under the aegis of Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) at a cost of about Rs 14,850 crore, and may later be expanded to six lanes as well.
(with agency input)