On 15 January 2008, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister, Ms.Mayawati is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the
1,000 km Ganga Expressway project from Greater Noida-Gazipur.
Survey work for the project is
complete. Financial bids for the project will be opened on 13 January 2008 and
the winning bidders will be announced on 14 January 2008. Around 18 companies
including DLF, GMR, Reliance Energy, JP Group, GVK Constructions, Nagarjuna
Construction and Omaxe have evinced interest in the proposed project.
UP Expressway Development Authority
will form a special purpose vehicle with each of the winning bidder and each
winning bidder will be given a 250 km stretch to build the expressway. The
successful bidders will also be given rights to develop 64,000 ha of land along
the expressway, which will be used for real estate activity including
residential, industrial and institutional areas.
The expressway will start from Ballia
and pass through Ghazipur, Ramnagar, Varanasi, Chunar, Bhadohi, Mirzapur,
Allahabad, Unchahar, Unnao, Kanpur, Bithoor, Kannauj, Fatehgarh, Budaun, Narora
and Bulandshahr before touching Noida.
Link expressways have also been
proposed around the Ganga Expressway. These are a Jhansi-Kanpur Link Expressway,
a Kanpur-Gorakhpur Link Expressway, an Agra-Kanpur Link Expressway and a
Baghpat-Saharanpur- Hardwar-Dehradun Link
Also See:
L&T, Gammon shows
interest in Ganga Expressway project (15-Nov-07)
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