Project timeline Agra Lucknow Expressway

as of march 2017, 1 side of rail on bridge @ bhadan still under construction



november 2013: no developers bid 9000 crore rupees project on build, own, operate , transfer basis. exclusion of provision free land parcels across expressway developer main concern among participating developer companies keeping them away project.
june 2014: government of uttar pradesh decided execute project through state government financing, rather private vendor financed basis, without provision free land parcels across expressway developer companies. government of uttar pradesh invited bids in 5 packages 6 lane agra lucknow expressway. following this, 24 companies submitted applications 5 different patches of expressway.
august 2014: through bidding process developers finalised executing each of 5 sections simultaneously. sections, length , developer developing section listed following : agra-firozabad (55.3 km, tata projects limited), firozabad-etawah (62 km,afcons infrastructure limited), etawah-kannauj (57 km, nagarjuna construction company), kanauj-unnao (64 km, afcons infrastructure limited), unnao-lucknow (63 km, larsen & toubro)
september 2014: 50% of land required project acquired.
november 2014: foundation stone laid . 7000 acres acquired 15,000 crores project. target completion of project set 22 months.
may 2015: work on 2 major bridges on yamuna , ganga river started. chief secretary, alok ranjan said expressway operational end of october 2016.
feb 2016: progress can seen on google maps , bing maps, except few sections 1 can see entire stretch on google maps starting kuberpur (at end of yamuna expressway near agra) lucknow.
nov 2016: expressway inaugurated on 21st november cm akhilesh yadav.
december 2016: expressway partially opened public lucknow till shikohabad. of 23 december 2016, light vehicles allowed pass stretch.
feb 2017: expressway opened public lucknow till agra on 23-feb-2017, still road construction happening @ places.




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