Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, three aircraft landed on the Purvanchal Expressway as part of a trial ahead on Sunday. The three aircrafts are a Mirage 2000, an AN-32 turboprop and a Sukhoi-30 was seen landing on the expressway.

According to the press release the expressway is set to have 22 flyovers, seven railway over-bridges, seven major and 114 minor bridges, six toll plazas and 45 vehicular underpasses.

IAF fighter aircrafts conduct trial run on airstrip ahead of Purvanchal Expressway inauguration, in Sultanpur, UP

PM Modi on board IAF Super Hercules will land directly on Purvanchal expressway to inaugurate it on 16th Nov pic.twitter.com/wwakxA95GG

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The 340.8 km long with six lane highway connects Lucknow with eastern UP, covering Barabanki, Amethi, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur districts. Being an access controlled expressway, it would provide benefits like fuel saving, time saving and control in pollution level, along with reduction in accidents, it said.