Ganga Expressway: Adani receives LoA to implement 3 major stretches

New Delhi: Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) on Monday said it has received the letter of award (LoA) from Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) to implement three major stretches of the greenfield Ganga Expressway.

In a statement, the company also said the project cost is over Rs 17,000 crore and this is India's largest-ever expressway project awarded to a private company under the public-private partnership (PPP) framework.

It further said AEL will construct three groups of the access-controlled six-lane expressway, expandable to eight lanes in Uttar Pradesh and the concession period will be

30 years. The Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, which will connect Meerut with Prayagraj, will be India's longest expressway to be implemented on the design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis.

Of its 594-km length, AEL will build 464 km from Budaun to Prayagraj, which comprises 80 per cent of the expressway project, the statement said.

Adani Enterprises Ltd is the flagship company of the Adani Group. Over the years, Adani Enterprises has focused on building emerging infrastructure businesses, contributing to nation-building, and divesting them into separate listed entities.