Gadkari Inaugurates Sagar Greenfield Link Road In MP, Gives A Major Infra Shot

The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday inaugurated Sagar Greenfield Link Road, giving a major infra boost to Madhya Pradesh. According to official information, the road corridor will cost around Rs. 11,300 crores.

The Union Minister also laid the foundation of 18 national highway projects in Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 6,800 crores. The total length of these projects is 550 km and they aim at providing better road connectivity to one of the most backward regions in the country. 

The link road will connect Bhopal in MP to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, thus reducing the distance between the two cities by about 21 kilometres and from 15 hours to 7 hours. It will also help improve the logistics operations of the cement and mineral transportation between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Gadkari also laid the foundation of 18 national highway projects. The various projects that were inaugurated include a greenfield bypass project for Orchcha costing about Rs. 520 crores, a 665-meter bridge spanning River Betwa at an estimated cost of 25 crores, and flyovers in Garhakota, Chhatarpur City, and Sagar. 

On this occasion, the union minister further announced a greenfield highway to be constructed between Agra and Gwalior, via Uttar Pradesh’s Shamshabad and Dholpur in Rajasthan.