Centre will invest more than one lakh 50 thousand crore rupees in Uttar Pradesh for development of roads in next three years. <br/><br/>Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said, works on several road projects amounting to around 70 thousand crore rupees are underway. <br/><br/>He said, the government has also taken up a project for construction of express highway between Lucknow to Kanpur. It will cost around 1500 crore rupees and the distance between the two cities will be covered in 35 to 40 minutes.<br/><br/>Elaborating about other road projects, Mr Gadkari said, a new express highway will be built between Baroda and Mumbai at a cost of around 42 thousand crore rupees. <br/><br/>He said, the distance of 325 kilometre between the two cities will be covered around two and half hours. The Minister also said, two new express highway will be built, Delhi – Amritsar-Katra and Delhi to Jaipur.