The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government contracted two state highway (SHs) projects, totalling Rs 2,072 crore, in western UP to private players on public private partnership (PPP) basis. The two SHs include Delhi-Saharanpur-Yamunotri Road (SH 57) and Bareilly-Almora-Bagheshwar Road (SH-37). The developers selected for these projects are SEW-Prasad Consortium, Hyderabad and PNC-Infratech, Agra respectively. On March 28, the state cabinet decided to execute projects covering about 20 SHs and span 2,300 km across various districts on PPP basis. Thereafter, the state government had started the bidding process for all these projects, entailing investment of almost Rs 12,000 crore
