The Taj Expressway will now be called Yamuna Expressway, according to a recent Uttar Pradesh government decision. Now, the three expressway projects — Ganga Expressway, Yamuna Expressway and Hindon Expressway — have been named after rivers.
The decision to this effect was taken on the June 10 board meeting of the Taj
Expressway Industrial Development Authority.The government would first have to denotify the Taj Expressway Industrial Development Authority, before issuing a fresh notification to rename it as Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, he said.
What prompted the government to change the name was the conceptualisation of 250-km-long Hindon Expressway, between Ghaziabad and Saharanpur linking Dehra Dun. Since both Ganga and Hindon Expressway will meet at Greater Noida, the government thought to rename Taj Expressway as Yamuna Expressway — thereby giving names to all the expressways after rivers along which they are being constructed.
Initiated in 2003, the Taj Expressway is a 165-km road project between Agra and Greater Noida. The Ganga Expressway — a 1,043-km road connecting Ballia to Greater Noida — was initiated by the Mayawati government in its present term.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
To discuss or to learn more about Yamuna Expressway / YEIDA township (located south of Greater Noida), join this google group at http://groups.google.com/group/yeida
or just follow this blog at yeida.blogspot.com
Post a Comment