CM Revanth Reddy urges Centre to declare southern part of RRR as national highway

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday urged union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to declare the southern part of the Regional Ring Road (RRR) as a national highway and to expand the Hyderabad-Vijayawada national highway to six lanes. He also appealed for expediting ongoing works pertaining to various national highways in the State.

The Chief Minister along with Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Ministers Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, D Sridhar Babu and others called on Gadkari in Delhi and submitted representations for various infrastructure projects including new national



highways in Telangana.

According to an official statement, Revanth Reddy emphasised the need for immediate commencement of national highway projects especially the Narsapur-Toopran-Gajwel-Bhongir-Choutuppal (158.645 km) road, which has been already declared as a national highway. The State government, which was bearing half of the land acquisition expenditure, has expedited the works, he said, also seeking announcement of the Choutuppal-Amangal-Shadnagar-Sangareddy (181.87 km) road and the southern part of the RRR as national highways, besides releasing funds under annual plan of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).