ghaziabad a new road connecting the two industrial hubs of ghaziabad and kanpur has been approved by the centre cutting through nine west up districts the 380km greenfield economic corridor is expected to bring down travel time between the two cities to just three hours a drive on the yamuna expressway between ghaziabad and kanpur now takes six hoursit was in september 2019 that union road transport and highways minister nitin gadkari had announced an economic corridor linking ghaziabad with kanpur the idea was to cut travel time between the two industrial cities on thursday last week the ministry gave its approval for the corridor said a senior nhai officialthe project is scheduled to be completed by 2025 it will be a 380kmlong highway which will initially be four lanes wide but there are plans to develop the corridor into eight lanes the official saidaccording to the alignment the corridor will pass through nine districts ghaziabad hapur bulandshahr aligarh kasganj farrukhabad kannauj unnao and kanpur as of now there are now routes connecting kanpur and ghaziabad commuters driving on the yamuna expressway take around six hours while those travelling on nh9 need at least eight hours so you see how the new corridor will be beneficial for commuters it will cut down the travel time to just three hours the official saida survey is currently being conducted to identify land for the project work on the dpr has started too sources in the nhai said and it is likely to be ready in about a year land acquisition will start then and is expected to be completed by 2023 from there it will take two years for the project to be ready the nhai official addedaccording to the plan the fourlane corridor will initially be expanded to six at culverts and underpasses land will be set aside for it to be widened to eight lanes in the futurethe corridor will prove to be a boon for industries by cutting down the time and cost of travelit will bring unprecedented economic benefits the corridor will reduce the time and cost of travelling which will ultimately have a cascading effect on our profits ideally this highway should have been constructed 30 years ago even though there was an urgent need for it the project was stalled for one reason or the other but better late than never we now hope it is completed on time said sk maheshwari an industrialist and former vicepresident of the ghaziabad industries federation