The contractors are likely to complete work on the Vijayawada-Hyderabad national highway four lane road project in October 2012.

Three toll plazas are expected to come up at Patangi in Choutuppal mandal, Korlapahad in Ketepalli mandal in Nalgonda district and at Bheemavaram in Vatsavayi mandal of Krishna district. As per the agreement reached with the NHAI, GMR Hyderabad-Vijayawada Expressways would execute the four/six-lane works in a stretch of 181.5 km on BOT basis with a concession period of 25 years. As per the terms of the order with GMR Hyderabad-Vijayawada Expressways, Punj Lloyd was to develop 116.5 km stretch on EPC basis.

The expansion project on the highway was taken up from Dandumalkapuram in Choutuppal mandal in Nalgonda district to Nandigama in Krishna district, covering a distance of 181.5 km. So far, work on an extent of 170-km have been completed, while bypass roads at Narketpally, Akupamula, Sher Mohmmadpet and Nawabpet villages are to be laid. Works on Choutuppal, Chityal, Kattamgur, Ketepalli and Suryapet bus shelters are in primary stage.

Works on the project commenced in March 2010 at a cost of Rs 1,470 crore. This route, which was known as NH-9, has been changed in the gazette as NH-65 now.

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