742 Km Shamli-Gorakhpur Expressway Set To Become Uttar Pradesh's Longest Road Corridor

lucknow ( Raghwendra Pratap Singh) : The Uttar Pradesh government is pushing ahead with the Shamli-Gorakhpur Expressway, a 742-km project estimated to cost Rs 40,000 crore that will become the longest expressway in the state upon completion.

The National Highways Authority of India has begun land acquisition work along the proposed route, spanning both western and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Farmers whose land falls within the corridor across multiple districts are expected to receive substantial compensation as the process advances.

The expressway will originate near Shamli at the Haryana border and terminate near Kushinagar close to the Bihar border, passing through 18 districts: Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur and Kushinagar.

The project is designed to stitch together western, central and eastern Uttar Pradesh into a single high-speed corridor, with anticipated benefits for trade, logistics and employment generation in smaller towns and rural districts along the route.