Home Min Rajnath Singh to inaugurate, lay foundation stone for Rs 1 lakh cr highway projects in UP

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will on Thursday inaugurate and lay foundation stone for 80 highway projects, including Lucknow-Kanpur-Expressway, worth Rs 1 lakh crore, as per an official statement.

Singh, accompanied by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, will also inaugurate and lay foundation stone for Namami Gange projects worth around Rs 2,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh.

"Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for national highway projects worth Rs 1,10,154 crore in Lucknow tomorrow.

"He will also inaugurate/lay foundation stone for several works under Namami Gange programme worth over Rs 1,969.57 crore," Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways said in a statement Wednesday.

Singh will lay the foundation stone for construction of Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway.

Besides, foundation stones will be laid for flyover at IIM crossing, Ghazipur-Phephna-Majhighat road on NH-31A, flyovers, bypasses, FOBs, underpasses for road ...