Uttar Pradesh (UP), one of India’s top state economies, is aiming to become the nation’s first $1 trillion economy. To achieve this ambitious goal, the Yogi Adityanath government is betting on its expansive network of expressways and mega industrial corridors to boost UP’s gross state domestic product (GSDP) from its current level of nearly $300 billion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dubbed UP as ‘Express Pradesh’, owing to its extensive expressway projects and the ‘speed of govern­ance’ under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Since Adityanath took office in March 2017, various expressway projects — either commissioned or still under construction — have a total outlay of Rs 80,000 crore.