Recently, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said the team of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is working on a mission mode 24×7 to make ‘New India’, the ‘infrastructure hub of the world’. In a series of tweets, the Union Minister said taking the mission forward, the project for six-laning of National Highway (NH)-140 from Chittoor to Mallavaram in the state of Andhra Pradesh is progressing at a rapid pace. The project is being developed under the Modi government’s Bharatmala Pariyojana. According to Gadkari, this National Highway section connects important towns in the district of Chittoor i.e. Chittoor and Tirupati via Kanipakam, a religious place.
