Nagpur-Hyderabad-Bengaluru Expressway, also known as Nagpur–Bengaluru Expressway, is a proposed long, eight-lane, greenfield access-controlled expressway, which will connect the third largest city of

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Nagpur Nagpur (; ISO 15919, ISO: ''Nāgapura'') is the second capital and third-largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is called the heart of India because of its central geographical location. It is the largest and most populated city i ...

with the capital of

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, through the capital of

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. It will pass through four states–Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. It will reduce both travel time and distance, from the current 24 hours to only 12 hours, and from around to . It will have two sections–one from Nagpur to Hyderabad and another from Hyderabad to Bengaluru. It will be operated and maintained by the

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(NHAI). The project will be built at a cost of ₹ 35,000 crore (US$ 4.2 billion), and is expected to be completed before 2030.

History

Due to growing traffic and pressure on National Highway 44 (North-South Corridor) (NH-44), which runs from

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, the highway will not be able to cope with the future traffic and vehicular load, despite four-laning along most of the entire route, especially the stretch from

, due to the cities' growing population. So, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) planned to build an expressway between those two cities through

, in 2017. It will become an alternative to NH-44, and will decongest traffic and reduce the growing pressure on it. It will help to reduce both travel time considerably, from around 23-24 hours to only 11-12 hours, and from approx. 1,200 km to 1,100 km. The expressway will have six lanes, which in the future, could be expanded to more number of lanes, by keeping space in between the lanes. In May 2018, a private firm was selected for preparing the

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(DPR), and still continues to be underway. The expressway, initially, was expected to be completed after 2025, by building it at a cost of ₹ 35,000 crore (US$ 4.2 billion). However, due to delays in implementation and preparations for pre-construction and construction works, the expressway has currently no scheduled deadline, as of 2023, but it is assumed to be completed by at least before 2030.

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History

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