Expressway Project To Host Guinness Record Bid In Sathya Sai District

Company officials said the record attempts will begin at 8 am on January 5 and conclude on the morning of January 6. The key challenge involves constructing a 5-km stretch of bituminous concrete road within 24 hours and laying the longest continuous bituminous/asphalt road in 24 hours, using about 7,500 metric tonnes of bitumen and asphalt.

In addition, the company will attempt to surpass its own earlier record of 42.2 km of continuous two-lane bituminous road construction, while also targeting another record by utilising not less than 36,634 metric tonnes of construction material. These extended attempts are scheduled to be completed by January 11.

The Guinness World Records certificates are scheduled to be formally presented at a grand function in Puttaparthi on January 12 by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, according to company sources.

Rajpath Infracon first entered the Guinness records on May 31, 2021, when it constructed a 39.69-km asphalt road in 24 hours between Pusegaon and Mahasurne in Satara district, Maharashtra, following all central and state government norms.

The company achieved another milestone in June 2022 during the construction of National Highway-53, when it laid a continuous 84.4-km bituminous concrete road between Amravati and Akola in Maharashtra in the shortest time. The single-lane stretch—equivalent to 42.2 km of two-lane road—was completed between June 3 and June 7, involving 728 engineers and over 2,500 workers, who worked under extreme heat conditions touching 47°C in the Vidarbha region.