The Government of India inaugurated the 341 km Purvanchal Expressway on November 16, 2021, in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The infrastructure project is one of the biggest to be completed by the Uttar Pradesh government. It has an estimated cost of Rs 224.96 billion. The expressway starts from Chandsarai village in Lucknow district, located on the Lucknow-Sultanpur road, and ends at Haidaria village on NH-31 in Ghazipur district. It is currently a six-lane highway and can be expanded to eight lanes in the future.
