New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal (KGP) Expressway, also known as Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), on Sunday.
Modi held a roadshow after the event.
Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Mansukh Mandaviya were also present at ceremony.
The 135-km expressway is India's first smart and green highway and is built at a cost of Rs. 11,000 crore.
The EPE is also the country's first highway to be lit by solar power and at every 500 metres.
Replicas of 36 monuments of the country have been established at the gallery on both the side.