Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first smart and green highway-135 km long Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal (KGP) Expressway also known as Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE).

• EPE is India’s first highway to be lit by solar power. It has eight solar power plants, with capacity of 4000 KW (4 megawatt) for lighting of underpasses and running solar pumps for watering plants.
• EPE also has arrangement for rainwater harvesting on both sides at every 500 meters and there is drip irrigation for plants all along the expressway.
• EPE has this tolling system in which toll is collected only for the distance travelled and not for the entire length.
• Toll plazas are equipped with Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system for faster toll collection.
• EPE has system for auto challans in which over-speeding will be fined as cameras along the highway will capture speed of vehicles.

Over 2.5 lakh trees have been planted along the expressway including transplant of 8-10 year old trees. It has drip irrigation provision for irrigating these trees. These are some of the features of EPE.