Agra Bareilly Expressway: The National Highways Authority of India has announced that the much-awaited Agra Bareilly Expressway would be fully open by December next year. Built at Rs. 7700 crore, the expressway would cut travel time between Agra and Bareilly to 2 hours.
The 228 kilometres expressway connects important areas such as Mathura, Kasganj, Hathras and Budaun and would make travelling throughout central and western Uttar Pradesh easier.
Agra Bareilly Expressway: Short-Term Impact
The first wave of job creation has already begun during the construction phase. Large infrastructure projects like this typically generate thousands of temporary jobs across multiple categories such as earthwork and road construction labour, bridge and flyover construction workers, heavy machine operators, civil engineers and site supervisors, truck drivers and logistics support and local material suppliers and small contractors.
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Benefits For Kasganj And Budaun
For many families in Kasganj and Budaun, this phase has provided income without requiring migration to Delhi, Noida and other industrial hubs.
With faster road connectivity between Agra, Bareilly and links toward Delhi NCR supply chains, Kasganj and Budaun can emerge as ideal locations for warehousing hubs, cold storage facilities for agricultural produce, freight forwarding and trucking terminals and distribution centres for FMCG and retail companies. More importantly, logistics hubs could help in generating continuous employment, not seasonal work. Jobs in loading, transport coordination, inventory management and security can steadily grow.
Once connectivity improves, industries often move away from saturated metros due to cheaper land and labour costs. Kasganj and Budaun could attract agro-processing units (flour mills, dairy processing and food packaging), construction material industries (bricks, tiles and cement-based units), textile and garment manufacturing and light engineering workshops.
This could also create a surge in the count of hotels, dhabas and roadside eateries along with petrol pumps and EV charging stations, vehicle repair and servicing centres, retail shops, small markets and transport offices. It could help in creating thousands of micro-jobs for local youth, especially those with limited formal education.