The 341-km Purvanchal Expressway at Karwal Kheri in Sultanpur district.
On Tuesday, the Indian Air Force will perform an airshow at the event that will be held along a 3.2-km stretch at Karwal Kheri that has been specially designed to enable fighter aircraft to land. There are 18 flyovers, seven railway over bridges, seven long bridges, 104 minor bridges, 13 interchanges and 271 underpasses on the highway that covers the districts of Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur.
The infrastructure project cost an estimated Rs 22,496 crore.
The expressway starts from Chandsarai village in the district of Lucknow located on the Lucknow-Sultanpur road and ends at Haidaria village on National Highway 31 in Ghazipur district.
Inaugurating the Purvanchal Expressway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sounded the poll bugle for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, saying the previous government did “injustice” to the people by “working for only one family”, while the BJP “ushered in an era of unforeseen development”. He also said that there were areas in Uttar Pradesh previously “a hub of mafia and poverty” but the expressway is a testimony to the development the state has witnessed in the recent past. Read more
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Medium transport aircraft An-32 lands on the 3.2-km long airstrip of Purvanchal Expressway inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in Karwal Kheri, Sultanpur.
PM Modi says, “The government before Yogiji did injustice to people of UP. The manner in which they discriminated in development, the manner in which they did welfare of only their family - people of UP will permanently remove them from the path of the state's development.”
PM Modi hailed the development works in Uttar Pradesh, stating that it will benefit farmers and traders to move their produce faster.
"Country's security is as important as its prosperity. In a short while from now, we will see that how Purvanchal Expressway has now become one more power for the Indian Air Force in cases of emergency. Our fighter plane will land on the expressway shortly," PM Modi said.
"It was also a fact that a vast state like UP was earlier cut off from each other to a great extent. People used to go to different parts but were worried due to lack of connectivity with each other," PM Modi said.
"For previous chief ministers, development was limited to where they had their homes. However, Purvanchal Expressway is bridging this gap in UP today, connecting UP with each other," he added.
The Purvanchal Expressway will benefit the people of Bihar as it will make it easier to travel between Bihar and Delhi, PM Modi said.
The expressway will connect Lucknow to cities where development is yet to come. It will become a medium to bring lakhs and crores of development works, he added.
"Seeing the situation in UP 7-8 years ago, I used to wonder what some people are punishing UP for," PM Modi said.
"The poor should get pucca houses, the poor should have toilets, women should not have to go out to defecate in the open, everyone should have electricity in their homes, there were many such works which needed to be done here. But I am deeply pained that the then government in UP did not support me," he added.
"This is the expressway to the state’s development and will show the way to a new Uttar Pradesh," PM Modi said. "This expressway is a reflection of modern facilities in UP. This expressway is the expressway of the strong will power of UP. This expressway is a living proof of the accomplishment of resolutions in UP," he added.
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When I laid the foundation stone of Purvanchal Expressway 3 years back, I had never thought that I will land here on an aircraft one day, said PM Modi.
"Those who have any doubt on capabilities of UP, on capabilities of people of UP should come to Sultanpur today to witness their capability. Such a modern expressway has now come up where it was just a piece of land three-four years back," he added.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath welcomed Prime Minister Modi to the inauguration event of the Purvanchal Expressway.
The Prime Minister along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be inaugurating the six-lane Purvanchal Expressway shortly.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hailed the Purvanchal Expressway as the backbone of UP's economy. "Undoubtedly, this expressway will prove helpful in fulfilling the resolve of making the state a $1 trillion economy under the guidance of the Prime Minister," CM Adityanath tweeted.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the BJP government has taken credit for SP's work on the Purvanchal Expressway. "It is hoped that till now the people of Lucknow must have memorized the length of the 'Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway'," Yadav tweeted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's C-130J Super Hercules has landed at Karwal Kheri in Sultanpur district.
Rejecting Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's allegation of poor quality of work on the Purvanchal Expressway, the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP on Tuesday said he is troubled by the fact that the 341-km road is ready without corruption of even Re 1.
In a tweet in Hindi, Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh said, "Akhilesh-ji is feeling troubled over the speed of the double engine government in UP. Akhilesh-ji is thinking how corruption of even one rupee has not been committed and the 341-km Purvanchal Expressway is ready. Had he been in power, he would have constructed a two-lane expressway, while the money meant for the rest of the four lanes would have filled his coffers." (PTI)
Constructed at an estimated cost of about Rs 22,500 crore, the Purvanchal Expressway is going to give a boost to the economic development of eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh, especially the districts of Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur, a statement released by the government said.
The expressway starts from Chandsarai village in the district of Lucknow located on the Lucknow-Sultanpur road and ends at Haidaria village on National Highway 31 in Ghazipur district. It is currently a six-lane wide highway and can be expanded to eight-lane in the future. Read more
Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the BJP government ahead of the UP polls, accusing the state government of spending public money to get crowds for rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, and asserted that everyone in the state has understood the BJP's politics of "jumlas" (rhetoric).
The Congress general secretary shared clippings of media reports on Twitter that claimed that public funds were being sought by officials to gather crowds for rallies. "During the lockdown, when lakhs of labourers were returning from Delhi to their villages in Uttar Pradesh on foot, the BJP government did not provide buses to them, Gandhi charged in a tweet in Hindi. But the government is spending crores of public's hard earned money to bring crowds to the rallies of the PM and Home Minister," she tweeted.
"Everyone has understood the BJP's politics of "jumlon ki dukaan, pheeke pakwaan (politics of rhetoric, low on substance)". Therefore, effort is being made to save face by investing crores," she said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday stated that he will be inaugurating the Purvanchal Expressway at 1:30 pm on Tuesday and the project will "bring with it multiple benefits for UP’s economic and social progress."