The 6-lane Purvanchal Expressway may be expanded to 8 lanes in the future
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fly an Air Force C-130J Super Hercules tomorrow for the grand launch of the 340km Purvanchal Highway in Uttar Pradesh. Landing test runs and an air show are in full swing while former Minister Akhilesh Yadav accuses the ruling BJP of crediting his work.
Video on social media shows the plane landing on a highway. A clip of Sunday’s dry run showed a Mirage 2000, an AN-32 turbofan and a Sukhoi-30 landing on a highway about 100 kilometers from the state capital Lucknow. The C-130J Super Hercules aircraft that will bring the Prime Minister to the location is also seen in the video landing on a cement-coated runway in the Sultanpur district, in order to facilitate the landing and take-off of the planes. Air Force jet in case of emergency.
Prime Minister Modi is expected to land at 1:30pm and take part in a public rally. About an hour later, he will witness a Mirage 2000 landing on a 3.2 km runway and a maintenance demo. An AN-32 transport aircraft will drop troops on the runway. Next will be the flight of three Kiran Mk2, flanked by two Sukhoi 30 jets.
Test landing on Purvanchal highway. pic.twitter.com/d2Zsup92jj
– Mrityunjay Kumar Office (@MrityunjayOffic) November 14, 2021
An Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet conducts a test run on the runway ahead of the inauguration of the Purvanchal highway, in Sultanpur.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the highway on November 16.
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– NDTV (@ndtv) November 14, 2021
Several sections of highways in the country are marked for emergency landings for the Air Force, and reports say that concept dates back to World War II in Germany.
In September, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari inaugurated an emergency landing site at Satta-Gandhav extending on Highway 925 in Rajasthan’s Barmer.
“The 6-lane wide expressway (Purvanchal) could be expanded to eight lanes in the future. Built at an estimated cost of Rs 22,500 crore, the Purvanchal Expressway will boost the economic development of the country.” eastern regions of Uttar Pradesh, especially the districts of Lucknow, Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur,” read a statement from the Prime Minister’s office.
Today, Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party attacked the BJP government, claiming that the foundation stone of the project was laid in December 2016 when he was Minister.
The Samajwadi Party said the BJP was merely inaugurating a project they conceptualized. “They are inaugurating a highway built by the SP government. They have renamed the highway from Samajwadi Purvanchal highway to ‘Purvanchal expressway’ and the quality standards of the highway have been violated. “, said Mr Yadav at a press conference today in Lucknow
“Anyone who’s been on the Agra-Lucknow motorway knows that your tea won’t spill at (speed) 100 kilometers per hour. But those who’ve been on the Purvanchal highway will know that it makes a mess. your stomach hurts. BJP’s motto is – ‘Ram Ram Japna’. So far, all the projects being inaugurated are those built by the SP government,” he added.
UP government sources have denied the claims, saying the foundation stone for the project was laid in July 2018 by Prime Minister Modi in Azamgarh, eastern UP, and construction work has been going on in Prime Ministership of Yogi Adityanath and in favorable times despite barriers because of the pandemic.
“The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for this highway in July 2018 and we are in the position today that the Prime Minister will inaugurate it. This is a prime example of how. the operation of a ‘dual-engined’ government,” said Yogi Adityanath. a “dual-engine government” dig of opponents has been used in the past.
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