Yamuna Expressway likely to be renamed after former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The UP government is now planning to change the name of the Yamuna Expressway and there is a discussion that now it can be named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

According to the reports, the Yamuna Expressway is likely to be renamed on November 25 during the foundation-laying ceremony of the Noida International Airport at Jewar. It is reported that a formal announcement regarding the renaming of the Yamuna Expressway will be done during the inauguration event. It is a 6-lane 165-km long expressway that connects Greater Noida in the National Capital Region (NCR) with Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The expressway is constructed at a cost of over Rs 14,000 crore.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh on November 25 at 1 pm. According to Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Uttar Pradesh will become the only state in India to have five international airports. As per a press release from PMO it stated-  “The development of the airport is in line with the vision of the Prime Minister towards boosting connectivity and creating a future-ready aviation sector. A special focus of this grand vision has been on the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) that is witnessing the development of multiple new international airports including the recently inaugurated Kushinagar airport and the under-construction international airport at Ayodhya.”

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