The Awadh Expressway also known as Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway connects two major cities

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of the Awadh Region of

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. It is an under-construction, , six-lane wide (expandable to 8) access-controlled expressway in India's Uttar Pradesh. It has been given the status of National Expressway 6 (NE 6) by the

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. The expressway will connect Lucknow and Kanpur and will run parallel to National Highway 27 (NH-27) which connects Kanpur and Lucknow with a distance of about between existing and proposed parallel roads. The expressway will start from its junction with NH-27 near Shaheed Path in South Lucknow (km 11.000 of existing NH-27) connecting Bani, Kantha, Amarsas and terminating at its junction with NH No. 27 (km 71.300 of existing NH-27) near Azad Marg, Kanpur where it will be connected to the Udyog Path, Kanpur. It will also intersect Ganga Expressway in Unnao district. The expressway's foundation stone was laid in March 2019 (again on January 5, 2022), and was notified as NE 6 in the Gazette of India in December 2020. This mix of brownfield-upgrade and greenfield project's Detailed Project Report (DPR) was prepared by Egis India Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd. Lucknow – Kanpur Expressway will have 2 elevated portions between Amausi and Bani – from chainage 13.025 to 16.400 (3.375 km) and 18.480 to 27.620 (9.14 km). It will consist of 3 major bridges, 28 minor bridges, 38 underpasses and 6 flyovers.

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It will be connected to the Kanpur Ring Road/Udyog Path. It will have a trijunction of 3 expressways between Kanpur & Unnao; Kanpur-Noida Expressway, Awadh Expressway, and

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MagicBricks, 22 June 2023. 594 km long Ganga Expressway runs along the northern bank of

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. 380 km long Kanpur-Noida Expressway runs along the southern bank of

from Ghaziabad,

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Status updates

* Nov 2018: Detailed Project Report for ₹4,500

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project finalised and submitted to the

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. * Mar 2019: Foundation stone laid down on 7 March by Union Ministers -

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for this project. * May 2019: 90% land to be acquired by June 2019 followed by tendering. Civil work is expected to start by August 2019. * Feb 2020: Notification for land acquisition to be issued soon. * Aug 2020: Construction to start by March 2021, and expressway to be ready by March 2023. * Sep 2020: Land acquisition under progress. Civil construction work to start in April 2021 and expressway to be ready by October 2023. * Dec 2020: Lucknow Kanpur Expressway, declared as NE 6 on December 15, 2020. * Feb 2021: Land acquisition done. Civil engineering work is expected to start in July 2021, and thereafter, it is expected to take 30 more months for project completion. *June 2021: 400 hectares out of total requirement of 465 hectare land is acquired i.e. 86% land acquired. NHAI to bid out expressway in July and the civil work is expected to start by the end of the year. *Jan 2022: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh and CM Yogi Adityanath laid the foundation stone of Kanpur Lucknow expressway at Lucknow as on 5 Jan 2022. *Feb 2022: PNC Infratech emerges as the Lowest Bidder and is selected by NHAI to build and operate both packages of the 6-lane (expandable to 8) Expressway under the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) beating Apco Infratech, MEIL, Gawar Construction and GR Infraprojects. *July 2022: The Lucknow–Kanpur Expressway renamed as Awadh Expressway.

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