PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday landed in a C-130J Super Hercules plane at the airstrip in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district and inaugurated the Purvanchal Expressway. The 341-km-long expressway, constructed at an estimated cost of ₹22,500 crore, is six-lane wide which can be expanded to eight-lane. The Lucknow-Ghazipur expressway will boost economic development in eastern UP, the government said.