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Varanasi-Ranchi-Kolkata Expressway Status Update: The work on the first phase of Varanasi-Ranchi-Kolkata Greenfield Expressway is underway at a rapid pace. There has been an agreement to connect four villages of Chandauli with this project for which a service road will be built. Orders have been issued to begin a survey. 90 km of the six-lane road is to be built in three phases. In this, 27 km part (first package) is the responsibility of the Varanasi unit of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), while 63 km work is to be done by the Sasaram unit, jagran.com reported.

In the first package, 23 km of road is to be built in Chandauli while about 5 km of road is to be built in Kaimur. This work has started from Revasa Chandauli. This package is approved till Khaiti Kaimur. In Chandauli, four villages Bahera, Khurhuja, Chanhata and Sikandarpur, located around two rivers Chandraprabha and Garai, have been demanding the construction of rural service lanes for a long time.

They want their village to be directly connected to the expressway. On Monday, in a meeting led by Rajya Sabha member Sadhana Singh, District Magistrate Chandauli and NHAI officials agreed to resolve this deadlock. Orders were given to explore the possibility of building a service lane to connect these villages. A large survey will be conducted, and the proposal will be sent to the headquarters accordingly. The length and cost of the service road will be known only after the survey. After the consent of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, steps will be taken to build the service road.

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NHAI Project Director Pankaj Mishra said that the entire land for the first package project has been purchased. The work is progressing rapidly. A proposal will be sent to the headquarters to build a service lane.

The work will be completed by November 2026, the load of the city will end NKC Private Limited, a company based in Gurugram, Haryana, started work on the first package of the Greenfield Expressway six months ago. The work of cleaning and leveling the land is going on. Small bridges are being built at many places. The work is to be completed by November 2026. The ring road ends at Revasa village itself, from here the distance to Kolkata can be covered in less time due to the construction of a Greenfield road. With the opening of one lane of the Ganga bridge on Sunday, movement has started on the ring road. Vehicles coming from Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Prayagraj, Lucknow and Delhi will be able to go to Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal via Chandauli on this route, they will not even have to enter Banaras city.

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The Varanasi unit has got 160 hectares of land in Chandauli. Farmers have been given compensation of Rs 220 crore. 14 underpasses, two flyovers and a bridge will be built over the Karmanasha river. Due to access control technology, only two interchanges will be built in the first phase. Vhicles will be allowed to get on and off the expressway only in Revasa and Khaiti villages. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the project on February 23, 2024. The cost of the first package is Rs 994 crore, in which the central government will give 40 percent of the budget while the company will have to invest 60 percent of the amount. A toll plaza will also be built in Devai village.

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