Summary
The Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate BN Singh on Wednesday conducted an inspection and directed engineers to expedite work on the 135-km Eastern Peripheral Expressway, which is meant to decongest roads of the national capital.A 22km stretch of the expressway falls in Gautam Budh Nagar.The expressway, which will be like a ring road, will pass through Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and parts of Delhi and is likely to take at least 70,000-80,000 vehicles off Delhi roads. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) needed land from 39 villages in Gautam Budh Nagar for the expressway, which was first proposed in 2005.NHAI officials have set October, 2017, as the deadline......