Purvanchal Expressway

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About Purvanchal Expressway–

• The 341 km expressway starts from Chandsarai village in the district of Lucknow located on the Lucknow-Sultanpur road(NH-731) 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.
• It will reduce the travel time between Lucknow to Buxar in Bihar from seven hours to nearly four hours. 
• Once it is opened to the public, the travel time from Lucknow to Ghazipur will be reduced from 6 hours to 3.5 hours.
• It establishes a direct link between the NCR and eastern Uttar Pradesh till almost the Bihar border.
• The Yamuna Expressway connects Noida to Agra while the Lucknow-Agra Expressway goes up to the state capital. 
• The Purvanchal Expressway will end about 18 km from the UP-Bihar border.
• It will 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.
• The government has developed land banks along the expressway and the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority has been authorised to develop industrial hubs along the highway.

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