New Delhi: Union minister
Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of Rs 11,595-crore
highway projects in
Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, the government said.
In addition, the minister will also lay the foundation stone of several projects under the Namami Gange programme, accompanied by Uttar Pradesh chief minister
Yogi Adityanath.
Gadkari will inaugurate in
Moradabad the 146-km Aligarh-Moradabad stretch on NH-93 built at Rs 950 crore, and will lay the foundation stone of the 100-km long six-lane Hapur Bypass-Moradabad section of NH-24 to be constructed at a cost of Rs 3,441 crore, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said.
A statement said he will lay the foundation stone in Meerut for three projects — the 88-km four-lane Meerut-Budhana-Shamli-UP/Haryana Border (Karnal) section of NH-709A to be built at a cost of Rs 708 crore, the 54-kmlong four-lane Meerut-Najeebabad section of NH-119 at Rs 2,120 crore, and construction of additional facilities on 78-km-long Meerut-Muzaffarnagar section of NH-58 at Rs 207 crore. Besides, the foundation stone will be laid for the Rs 3,367-crore Garhmukteshwar-Meerut stretch, it said.