Lockdown: UP to restart work on key expressways, non-Covid emergency care

Construction agencies will follow social distancing and sanitisation norms working on expressways; healthcare staff at hospitals to be trained to protect themselves from coronavirus

With the coronavirus lockdown having been extended to May 3, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to restart work under stringent conditions on three big expressway projects totalling more than Rs 42,500 crore.

These projects include Purvanchal Expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway and Gorakhpur Link Expressway. The work on these mega infrastructure projects had come to a standstill last month following the lockdown to control the spread of the pandemic.

Yesterday, UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who also heads the committee tasked