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New Ring Roads: The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh is engaged in paving the way for development through better connectivity in the state. Under this, the Yogi government is preparing to gift new ring roads and bypasses to five divisions of the state soon. A proposal in this regard was prepared last year and sent to the central government. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently met Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and talked about this. At present, work is going on to build new ring roads in 12 out of 18 divisions of the state, while it has already been completed in Lucknow division. Apart from this, the state government has sent a proposal to the Center to build ring roads in the remaining five divisions. As soon as the green signal is received from the Center, the way for ring roads will be paved in all the divisions of the state.
At present, ring road work is going on in Gorakhpur and Kanpur divisions. Apart from this, work on some parts of the ring road in Agra, Chitrakoot, Meerut, Prayagraj, Varanasi has been completed and work is going on in a new phase. Similarly, ring road work has been approved in Basti division. At the same time, the ring road of Ayodhya division has got the green signal from the cabinet.
Apart from this, the DPR work for the ring road has been completed in Bareilly division, while the work on the northern part of the ring road is going on in Azamgarh and Moradabad divisions. In this way, the work of ring road is going on at a fast pace in 12 divisions of the state, while Lucknow division has already got the facility of ring road.
The Yogi government is now preparing to build ring roads in the remaining five divisions of the state, Aligarh, Devipatan, Jhansi, Mirzapur and Saharanpur. Apart from this, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also requested the Union Minister to build new bypasses in 14 districts of the state.
It is worth noting that 53 districts of the state already have bypass facilities. Apart from this, the construction work of bypasses is going on at a fast pace in eight districts. At the same time, the process of building bypasses has intensified in 14 districts namely Farrukhabad, Auraiya, Bulandshahr, Mainpuri, Bahraich, Gonda, Baghpat, Chitrakoot, Mirzapur, Bhadohi, Sambhal, Kaushambi, Chandauli and Shravasti.
There were 48 national highways in UP in 2017, which have increased to 93 by 2024. At the same time, the length of the national highway was about 8 thousand kilometers in 2017, which has increased to about 13 thousand kilometers in 2024. Similarly, there was only one expressway in the state in 2017, which will increase to 6 by 2024. The 165-kilometer long expressway in the state in 2017 will become 1225 kilometers in 2024. At the same time, the work of many link expressways including Ganga Expressway is also being completed rapidly.
