NHAI creates four Guinness World Records on Bengaluru–Vijayawada highway project

New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has successfully created four Guinness World Records in the execution of Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada economic corridor (NH-544G).

On January 6, NHAI said it made two Guinness World Records near Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh.

First was the record for the longest continuous laying of bituminous concrete, covering 28.89 lane km or a 3-lane wide 9.63 km long section within 24 hours.

The second record was created for continuous laying of the highest quantity of 10,655 metric tonnes of bituminous concrete in 24 hours.

Both records were established for the first time globally under the six-lane National Highway project on the Bengaluru-Kadapa-Vijayawada Economic Corridor, the statement said.

Building further on this momentum, the NHAI said two additional Guinness World Records were created on January 11.

These include the continuous laying of 57,500 metric tonnes of bituminous concrete and a record for continuous paving of 156 lane km or 3-lane wide 52 km long section, surpassing the previous world record of 84.4 lane km or 2-lane wide 42.2 km long section.

These record-setting feats were executed across Package-2 and Package-3 of the Bengaluru-Kadapa-Vijayawada Economic Corridor, it added.

The 343 km long, access-controlled six-lane Bengaluru-Kadapa-Vijayawada Economic Corridor has 17 interchanges, 10 wayside amenities, a 5.3 km long tunnel, and around 21-km section of the corridor passes through a forest area.

Once completed, the corridor would reduce travel distance by 100 km from current 635-km to 535-km and cut the travel time by nearly four hours from the current 12 hours to around 8 hours between Bengaluru and Vijayawada.