New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway is in the limelight since the authorities deployed pedestal fans to drying the damaged stretch after heavy rain. Videos are doing the rounds online showing a major slip on Rs.4,200 crore highway for which electric fans were installed to treat waterlogged roadbed. To remove moisture from the underlying soil before reconstruction

Inaugurated less than a fortnight ago, the newly opened road expressway could not withstand rains as a section developed "surface slippage", as described by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the 63 km six-...