In yet another largesse for chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's home district of Kadapa, the Centre on
Thursday cleared a Rs 1,750-crore proposal that would provide major road connectivity to it with the rest of the country.
The proposal entails conversion of a 189-km stretch of the narrow national highway 18 and connecting it with the arterial national highway, No 7. The NH-18 is a narrow 369-km road stretching from Kurnool to Chittoor via Kadapa. National highway no 7, from Varanasi to Kanyakumari, passes through Andhra Pradesh all the way from Hyderabad to Bangalore via Kurnool and Anantapur in the Rayalaseema region.
"The proposal cleared by the Union cabinet committee on economic affairs entails four-laning of the NH 18 from Kadapa to Kurnool where it would meet the NH 7, thus giving major road connectivity to the CM's home district with the rest of the country," an official said.
As per the proposal, the stretch of NH-18 that would be converted into four-lane is the Kadapa-Mydukur-Kurnool section. "Of the total road length of NH-18, the stretch from 167.75 km to 356 km falling under Kadapa and Kurnool is being converted into a four-lane. The proposal clearly envisages giving major road connectivity to Kadapa district only," the official added.
The proposal was cleared under the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Phase III and is to be awarded to private partners under the Design- Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) mode. The project cost is estimated at Rs 1754.12 crore including the cost of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) and pre-construction. The Centre would provide the viability gap funding (VGF), which would not exceed 40 per cent of the total project cost excluding the cost of land acquisition, R&R and pre-construction.
The project will be developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) through the private sector concessionaires who will be selected by NHAI following a two-stage bidding process. The first stage of the bidding process, i.e. pre-qualification of the bidders, has already been completed by NHAI. The second stage of bidding process is in progress. The concession period for both the sub-project has been kept as 30 years including 910 days of construction period.
"The proposal cleared by the Union cabinet committee on economic affairs entails four-laning of the NH 18 from Kadapa to Kurnool where it would meet the NH 7, thus giving major road connectivity to the CM's home district with the rest of the country," an official said.
As per the proposal, the stretch of NH-18 that would be converted into four-lane is the Kadapa-Mydukur-Kurnool section. "Of the total road length of NH-18, the stretch from 167.75 km to 356 km falling under Kadapa and Kurnool is being converted into a four-lane. The proposal clearly envisages giving major road connectivity to Kadapa district only," the official added.
The proposal was cleared under the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Phase III and is to be awarded to private partners under the Design- Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) mode. The project cost is estimated at Rs 1754.12 crore including the cost of land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) and pre-construction. The Centre would provide the viability gap funding (VGF), which would not exceed 40 per cent of the total project cost excluding the cost of land acquisition, R&R and pre-construction.
The project will be developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) through the private sector concessionaires who will be selected by NHAI following a two-stage bidding process. The first stage of the bidding process, i.e. pre-qualification of the bidders, has already been completed by NHAI. The second stage of bidding process is in progress. The concession period for both the sub-project has been kept as 30 years including 910 days of construction period.
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