IAF Jets Conduct Trial Run On Purvanchal Expressway
The Purvanchal Expressway, will connect Western and eastern Uttar Pradesh. It is a 340-km-long expressway which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 16. The total expenditure incurred on the project is Rs 42,000 crore. It will reduce the travel time between the two cities of Lucknow and Mirzapur by four hours. The expressway passes through Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh and Mau.
Uttar Pradesh has also become the first state in the country to have two expressway-based airstrips. The one on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway and the other on the Purvanchal Expressway. Expressway airstrips are designed to let fighter jets land and take off in an emergency. Previously, the Indian Air Force investigated the Yamuna Expressway and the Agra Expressway. The government of Uttar Pradesh is attempting to link the whole northern region of the nation via expressways. The Indian Air Force’s Hindon, Gorakhpur, Agra and Allahabad airbases will be able to utilise the runways of all three expressways if necessary.
Yesterday Jaguar fighter aircrafts participated in the touchdown drill as a rehearsal, On the occasion, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the preparedness.
Days ahead of the formal inauguration of Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, the Indian Air Force’s three fighter aircraft conducted a trial run on its airstrip in Sultanpur. According to an official, the inauguration ceremony is set to be a grand event with several Indian Air Force’s fighter jets and transport aircraft to land on the airstrip developed to be used during operations in case airbase get incapacitated due to any reason. It may also be used during HADR missions for quick relief action.
In September, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister for Road Transport and Highway Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the emergency landing airstrip on the national highway in Rajasthan’s Barmer. So far, 12 highways that have been approved are in different states of the country and would enable the landing of military planes in emergencies.
