Uttar Pradesh: Infrastructure: roads, rail, power

As on December 31st, 2025, Uttar Pradesh had 16 operational airports, 7 operational expressways (with 15 under progress), 6 cities with operational metro and an installed energy capacity of 36,741MW, according to the state's Budget 2026-27 booklet. The budget makes large provisions for roads, energy, irrigation, drinking water and urban development.

Roads and Bridges

• Roads and bridges: ₹34,468 crore for construction, widening and maintenance.
• Bridges: ₹4,808 crore; rail overbridges and underpasses: ₹1,700 crore.
• State highways, major and other district roads: ₹3,700 crore.
• Rajya Sadak Nidhi: ₹3,000 crore for maintenance and ₹3,000 crore for construction and widening.
• Bypasses, ring roads and flyovers in cities: ₹1,500 crore; roads to industrial/logistic parks: ₹1,000 crore; North-South Corridor: ₹400 crore.
• Setu Bandhan: the PWD will build ten major bridges with ₹1,111 crore of CRIF funding.
• The booklet calls UP India's most well-connected state; it has approved 6 new north-south corridors.
• UPEIDA is developing 27 logistic clusters (UPIMLCs) along the 5 expressways.
• Road network (2019-20): PWD maintains 254895 kms of surfaced roads, including 3635 kms of National highway and 8322 kms of State Highway.
• UP had 63,722 km of urban roads (12.10% of India's), second after West Bengal (March 2017). 99.99 percent of targeted habitations are linked by all-weather roads under PMGSY (SDG India 2020).

Railways, Metro and Air

• Railway route length: over 8,000 kilometres.
• The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat Train under the Regional Rapid Transit System has started operations.
• Civil Aviation: ₹2,111 crore. UP has been named the 'Most Proactive State' under RCS-UDAN.
• Jewar International Airport (Gautam Buddha Nagar) is being built in PPP mode; runways are to be raised from 2 to 5; provision ₹750 crore. The booklet calls it India's largest airport.
• State airstrips: ₹1,100 crore for construction, expansion and land acquisition.

Energy

• Energy sector: ₹65,926 crore, 8 percent higher than 2025-26.
• Power supply (2025-26, till December 2025): an average of 19 hours in rural areas, 21 hours 49 minutes at tehsil headquarters and 24 hours at district headquarters.
• Since April 1, 2022: 2,410 new 33/11 KV substations; 20,924 new distribution transformers; capacity raised for 85,684 transformers.
• Private tube wells: 2,41,088 connections from April 1, 2022 to December 2025.
• Additional Sources of Energy: about ₹2,104 crore, including ₹1,500 crore for PM Kusum Surya Ghar Yojana.
• Seventeen municipal corporations, including Ayodhya and Mathura, are being made Solar Cities; about 5.20 lakh solar street lights are installed in rural areas.
• 36 CBG plants under the UP Bio-Energy Policy 2022, the highest number in the country.

Irrigation and Drinking Water

• Irrigation and flood control: ₹18,290 crore.
• Madhya Ganga Stage 2, Kanhar, Ken Betwa Link and Bhaurat Dam projects will create or restore 4.49 lakh hectares of irrigation capacity.
• In 2025-26, 2,100 new state tube wells were built and 569 failed ones rebuilt; 285 flood control projects were completed.
• Namami Gange and Gramin Jalapurti: about ₹22,676 crore. Of 2.67 crore rural families, 2.43 crore houses already have tap connections; about ₹22,452 crore is proposed for all components of the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Urban Development and Housing

• Urban Development: about ₹26,514 crore; Housing and Urban Planning: ₹7,705 crore, including ₹3,500 crore for the Mukhyamantri Shahri Vistarikaran/Naye Shahar Protsahan Yojana.
• Since 2017: 113 new urban local bodies set up and 127 expanded. The climate plan notes UP has the largest number of urban local bodies in India.
• Smart City Mission: 10 cities: Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly, Jhansi, Saharanpur and Moradabad.
• State Smart Cities: 07 more municipal corporations: Ayodhya, Firozabad, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad, Mathura-Vrindavan, Meerut and Shahjahanpur.
• The Kashi-Vindhya Region Regional Development Authority has been set up; a Prayagraj-Chitrakoot authority is under process.
• Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 1.0: public, community and pink toilets in 1,100 blocks across 189 urban local bodies.
• Urban waste: about 15,500 tonnes per day, of which 57.48% is processed scientifically.