Lucknow, Sep 25 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh cabinet Tuesday approved the proposal to build a six-lane expressway between Agra and Lucknow.
The greenfield expressway project, to be built on minimum distance formula through public-private partnership (PPP) mode, has been proposed along a 270-km six-lane (extendable to eight lanes) expressway stretching from Taj city's Ring Road close to Yamuna expressway to Lucknow's Inner Ring Road.
It will pass through Fatehabad, Shikohabad, Saifai, national highway (NH) 92 near Etawah, NH-91 near Kannauj, and NH-25A near Malihabad.
With the cabinet's nod, work can now start on the ambitious project, said officials.
At a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, it was also decided to give a go ahead to construction of a sports college in Saifai, the village of the chief minister.
The cabinet also approved the MoU between the UP State Electricity Production Nigam and the Nevli Lignite Corporation, under the union coal ministry, for setting up of a 2,000 MW thermal power project at Ghatampur, on the outskirts of Kanpur.
The cabinet also took a significant decision to amend the Molasses policy and allow sugar mills to sell the by product molasses in the open market.
The cabinet also declared a discount of 10 percent on all types of Khadi clothes on the Gandhi Jayanti (Oct 2), decided to directly transfer scholarships given to scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) students after passing class 10 and to provide biometric cards for the beneficiaries of the public distribution system (PDS), a government spokesman said.
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