1,980-mw power plant also gets nod
The UP government on Tuesday approved two important infrastructure projects.
The first project involves the construction of a high-speed greenfield expressway from Lucknow to Agra on a PPP basis. It also gave its nod to an MoU between Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (UPRVUNL) and Neyveli Lignite Corporation for setting up a 50:50 JV thermal power project that will generate 1,980 MW power in Ghatampur in Kanpur district.
The cabinet decision was taken at a meeting chaired by CM Akhilesh Yadav. While the power project was sanctioned by the previous Mayawati government two years ago, the foundation stone was laid by Akhilesh in June this year.
The project, which is being built at an investment of R12,000 crore, will become operational in its first phase by 2015 and is expected to help the state stave off a power crisis.
The 270-km-long, six-laned Lucknow-Agra expressway would connect the recently inaugurated Yamuna Expressway from Agra to Noida, thus creating a direct link with Delhi and bringing down the travel time from Lucknow to Delhi to flat five hours, from the current 10 hours. It would pass through Fatehabad, Shikohabad, Saifai, Etawah, Kannauj, Malihabad, culminating at Lucknow’s Inner Ring Road.