Stone laid for 4-lane highway

Major General BC Khanduri, the union minister for road transport and highways, laid the foundation stone for the widening of 35 kilometer first stretch of Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway to four lane yesterday.

On the occasion, the minister offered to upgrade the project to six lane highway if the state government provided the additional land.

He was reacting to chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu's plea to convert the present Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway into a six lane highway instead of a four- lane one.

The expansion of the 35 km stretch from the 10 km point to the 41 km point on the two-lane highway was taken up with Rs 40 crore cost under the Golden Quadrilateral project.