State nodal agency Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority is in the process of selecting a consultant for the development of an eight-lane access-controlled expressway from Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district to Kalsia in Saharanpur district, along the Hindan river, in Uttar Pradesh.
This major road project will be developed under design-build-finance-operate model on PPP basis. The consultant will undertake pre-feasibility and feasibility studies including design report, costing to assess technical, financial and economic viability, environmental and social assessment studies and their analysis, among other requirements.
The total length of the expressway is about 217 km. It will run from Noida to Saharanpur on a high embankment parallel to the left bank of Hindan river and from Saharanpur to Kalsia over a normal embankment.
The project has been approved by the UP government. So far, the state PWD has prepared the concept report and has taken up preliminary project development work. The state environment impact assessment authority has given preliminary environmental clearance in areas falling in Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghazaibad, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur districts. EIA clearance from the ministry of environment and forests is awaited.

Project linkages
Phase-I: Nakud to Charthawal (36 km), Bhayla to Haryana border (Karnal), Meerut Ring Road to expressway, and Greater Noida expressway (5.20 km).
Phase-II: Kalsia to Dehradun, Gagalhedi to Hardwar, Kalsia to Paonta Sahib, and Kalsia to Yamuna Nagar.
Expressway sections passing through Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana will be taken up after approval of the three state governments.
The UP government is willing to consider a number of "sweeteners" to make the project economically viable for the developer. These include granting land development rights for real estate, industrial park, SEZ and wayside amenities like restaurants.
The UP government has already awarded contracts for two eight-lane access-controlled expressway projects to Jaypee Group, the infrastructure conglomerate based in New Delhi. These are the 1,047-km Greater Noida to Ballia-Ganga expressway, which is estimated to cost Rs 30,000 crore and which will run through several districts, and the 165-km Yamuna expressway project (erstwhile Taj expressway), which is slated to cost nearly Rs 40,000 crore.
Other eight-lane expressway projects are Bijnore-Moradabad to Fategarh; Jhansi-Kanpur-Lucknow-Gorakhpur-Kushinagar in southern UP to the eastern boundaries; Lucknow-Barabanki-Nanpara link; Agra to Kanpur; and Narora to Uttarakhand border.