Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who begins a two‑day Uttar Pradesh visit Tuesday, will inaugurate the Ganga Expressway in Hardoi on Wednesday.
- The six‑lane access‑controlled road runs 594 km from Meerut to Prayagraj at a cost of about ₹36,230 crore and is expected to cut the drive to roughly six hours across 12 districts.
- Uttar Pradesh has mapped 12 Integrated Manufacturing and Logistics Clusters along the route covering 6,507 acres, with 987 investor EOIs indicating about ₹46,660 crore in potential projects.
- Key features include a 3.5 km emergency airstrip in Shahjahanpur, AI‑ and sensor‑based road monitoring developed with ETH Zurich and RTDT, and closed‑system tolling designed for no‑stop FASTag collection.
- Built under a PPP on a DBFOT model, the corridor was executed mainly by Adani Road Transport (about 464 km) and IRB Infrastructure (about 130 km), with concessionaire‑run toll operations to follow.