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Rail
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Largest
Rail track length of 8949 Kms
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5
Railway Zones
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Railway density
Nearly twice (40 km) the national average per 1000 sq km area
Road
Largest Road Network in India
4 Lakh Km Total Road Length
11,737 Km Total National Highway
2nd In India in Total N.H. Network Length Presence
7,147 Km Total State Highway
1.7 Lakh Kms Other Roads
Metro Rail
- 2 Metro Rail Operating Cities (Lucknow & Noida)
- 2 Metro Rail Projects under construction (Kanpur & Agra)
- 5 Upcoming Metro Rail Projects (Meerut, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Prayagraj, Varanasi)
Lucknow Metro Rail
Network Length: 23.732 Kms
Current Daily Average Ridership(in Feb,2020): 1936
No. of stations: 21
Noida Metro Rail
Network Length: 29.7 Kms
Current Daily Average Ridership(in Feb,2020): 25907
No. of stations: 21
Inland Waterways
- India’s 1st Inland Waterway in UP
- NW1 connecting major exporting hubs to Haldia Port via Varanasi & Prayagraj
- 26% catchment Area of NW-1 in UP
- 27 million tonnes volume expected to move on NW-1 by 2023
- India’s 1st Multi Modal Terminal at Varanasi on NW1
- Other NW1 Terminals
Varanasi MMT
Assi Ghat, Varanasi
Rajghat, Varanasi - 425 Kms Total Navigable Water length in UP
- ’10 Upcoming National Waterways(NW) will present Uttar Pradesh with new Prospects
Air Connectivity
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7
Airports/Airstrips -
5
Domestic Airports -
3
International Airports -
51
Number of cities connected
domestically from the State -
12
Number of cities connected
internationally from the State -
3
Airports completed under
RCS Phase 1&2(Prayagraj, Hindon, Bareilly) -
6
Projects under progress
under RCS phase 1&2(Kanpur, Agra, Azamgarh, Moradabad & Shravasti) -
5
New projects identified
under RCS Phase 3(Ayodhya, Kushinagar, Sarsawa, Gazipur & Meerut)
Total Number of Air Passenger Traffic (2019-2020)
- 16,735 in Agra Airport
- 2,12,017 in Kanpur(Chakeri) Airport
- 4,14,064 in Prayagraj Airport
- 6,65,703 in Gorakhpur Airport
- 30,10,702 in Varanasi Airport
- 54,33,757 in Lucknow Airport
Aircraft Movements (2019-2020)
- 738 in Agra Airport
- 1,960 in Kanpur(Chakeri) Airport
- 4,056 in Prayagraj Airport
- 5,032 in Gorakhpur Airport
- 24,056 in Varanasi Airport
- 38,494 in Lucknow Airport
Jewar Airport
Jewar Airport is one of the Largest Airports in India
(PPP Mode, NAIL and Zurich Airport by 2023)
- Spread over 5000 hectares area
- 50 million passenger traffic capacity
- 1800 Cr worth MRO & Cargo Hub Expected Aerotropolis
Expressways
- State of the art expressways for seamless connectivity with access controlled navigation
- Existing Yamuna & Agra-Lucknow Expressway connecting the State Capital to National Capital Region
- 302 kms Agra Lucknow Expressway is one of the longest expressways in India
- Proposed Poorvanchal Expressway & Bundelkhand Expressway to connect the exporting hubs in eastern and Bundelkhand region
- Lucknow-Azamgarh-Ghazipur- Expressway known as Purvanchal Expressway is an under construction 6-lane, divided and access-controlled 343 km long
- Upcoming 603 kms long Ganga Expressway will be one of India’s longest expressway, connecting key exporting hubs
- 296 kms long Bundelkhand Expressway is an under construction, 4lane Controlled-access highway, Broad route, connecting Chitrakoot-Banda-Orai-Jalaun-Auraiya-Etawah
- Gorakhpur Link Expressway will connect North eastern UP viz. Gorakhpur area through the Purvanchal Expressway to Lucknow, Agra and Delhi with smooth traffic corridor.
Corridors
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor
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8.5% of DMIC catchment area
(36,068 sq. km) across 12 districts
- Expected investment of Rs 27,400 Cr & 1.2 million Job creation
Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) along DMIC
Projects along DMIC-WDFC
- Boraki Integrated Transport Hub
- Dadri – Noida – Ghaziabad Investment Region
- Integrated Industrial Township at Greater Noida
- Integrated Multi Modal Logistic Hub at G.Noida near Dadri
Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor
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57% of AKIC catchment area
across 17 districts - Expected investment of More than Rs 50,000 Cr
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) along AKIC
Highest share of EDFC in UP
Projects along AKIC-EDFC
- 3 Integrated manufacturing clusters around 18 identified railway stations
- Development of 3 industrial clusters –
- Auraiya, Kannauj- Kanpur Cluster
- Prayagraj-Varanasi Cluster
- Agra- Aligarh Cluster
UP Defence Industrial Corridors
- One of the 2 Defence Industrial Corridors in India
- Expected Investment approx. Rs 50,000 Cr & 2.5 lakh job opportunities
- 6 identified nodes: Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Chitrakut, Kanpur & Lucknow
- ~5071.19 Hectares Land bank identified, of which 3796 hectares has been acquired
- IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU identified for setting up Centre of Excellence worth Rs. 50 Cr & Rs. 69 Cr respectively
- Land allotment policy & incentive policy announced
