Gadkari lays stone for Rs 3,000 cr NH projects in AP

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari here on Thursday laid the foundation stone for eight National Highway projects to be developed at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh.

The projects are intended to provide greenfield road connectivity to Kakinada Special Economic Zone, SEZ Port, fishing harbour and anchorage port and smoothen export of rice, seafood, oil, iron ore, bio-fuel, and granite through Kakinada Port.

The Union Minister said on the occasion that five new flyovers would be built at Kaikaram, Morampudi, Undarajavaram, Tetali and Jonnada for hassle-free and safe traffic movement to Namavaram, Satellite City, Mandapeta, Ramchandrapuram, Kakinada, Undarajavaram, Nidadavolu, Tanuku Town, and Kaikaram. Special safety features would be built in for rectification of blackspots on the highways, he added.