Lucknow, Sept. 27 -- The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Friday approved a proposal to connect the Agra-Lucknow expressway with the Ganga Expressway via the access controlled six-lane (expandable to eight lanes) greenfield Farrukhabad Link Expressway at an estimated cost of Rs.7488.74 crore.

The 90.83-km Farrukhabad Link Expressway will be constructed on the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model, the cabinet decided at its meeting chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

The new expressway will connect the Agra-Lucknow Expressway at Kudrail, Etawah and the Ganga Expressway at Sawaijpur, Hardoi, minister for finance Suresh Khanna said, briefing media persons.

Khanna said the developer for the project would be selected through...