Telangana News

Telangana Chief Minister KCR said the state will have a network of national highways of total 5,303 km soon.

Speaking about this in the assembly, KCR said, “The Centre has sanctioned new national highways with a combined length of 2,776 km to Telangana. The total highways that were constructed during the past 70 years (from 1947 to 2014), were only 2,527 km. During the past 2.5 years, the state has managed to get sanctions from the Centre for laying 2,776 km of 18 new highways. The total length of the national highways in the state would increase to 5,303 km.”

On the other side, Minister for Roads and Buildings T Nageswar Rao added that, Telangana had 24,250 km of roads during the state formation. But the state government is now planning to develop 12000 km of roads, including 357 bridges with an expenditure outlay of Rs. 13380 crores. 

"The government has completed construction of 7,500 km long roads so far by spending Rs 4,000 crore," the minister told the Assembly.