Consultant Appointed to Prepare DPR for 6-Lane Hyderabad-Vijayawada Highway

The State government has agreed to contribute to the cost of the project besides exempting from levy of seigniorage and reimbursement of SGST component of the project. The consultant for preparation of DPR for six-lane Hyderabad to Vijayawada section of NH-65 has also been engaged. The alignment has been approved for a total length of about 230 km.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways receives proposals from various State governments and Union Territories (UTs), from time to time, for declaration and upgradation of State Roads, including backward regions, as new National Highways (NHs).

Decisions are taken to notify State Roads as NHs from time to time based on the broad principles of declaration of NHs, requirement of connectivity, traffic density and synergy with PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP).

The government has already declared about 2500 km length as new NHs since 2014 in Telangana. This was stated by the Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in Lok Sabha while responding to a question raised by the BJP MP Eatala Rajender on improvement of road connectivity in Telangana.

Rajender asked whether the Telangana government has sent proposals to the Union Government for improving road connectivity in the backward regions of the successor State of Telangana. He sought to know whether the proposal includes upgradation of 16 State roads connecting district headquarters, industrial corridors, tourism and pilgrimage centres, neighbouring States and places of economic importance by declaring them as new National Highways (NHs).

The BJP MP asked whether proposals have also been submitted for sanction of a four-lane elevated corridor on the Hyderabad-Srisailam section of NH-765 and six-lane Hyderabad-Vijayawada section of NH65.