INDIAN STATE : ANDHRA PRADESH

National Highways Development Project (NHDP): The National Highway No.5,7 and part of 9 are taken up for development of four-lane roads in the State. The total length of the roads taken up for development is 1,834 Kms. The 'Golden Quadrilateral' covering a length of 1,062 Kms is completed. The construction of roadwork named as 'North- South Corridor' covering a length of 772 Kms is under progress and so far a length of 59 Kms is completed.

In phase-III of NHDP, 519.50 Kms length of National Highways is proposed for widening into four-Lane on the basis of Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) model. The road works proposed under this model are: Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Machilipatnam on NH-9 of length 241.0 Kms, Kadapa-Mydakur-Kurnool on NH-18 of length 192.5 Kms, Hyderabad-Yadagirigutta on NH-202 of length 30.0 Kms and Tirupathi-Tiruthani-Chennai on NH-205 of length of 56.0 Kms.

Port connectivity: The Port connectivity road of length 12 Kms and other projects of road length 58 Kms are completed.

Airports

The Rajiv Gandhi International airport at Hyderabad, was inaugurated on 14th March, 2008 and commenced operations from 23rd March, 2008. The new airport was opened to the public, pursuant to the notification issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to launch operations. With the new Greenfield airport starting full-scale operations, the existing airport at Begumpet has been closed for civil aviation operations.The new airport has been developed by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), a joint venture company promoted by GMR Group (63%) and Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad (11%), Government of Andhra Pradesh (13%) and Airports Authority of India (13%) as the other consortium partners.

The airport is strategically located providing excellent opportunity to develop it as a hub for domestic and international passenger and cargo traffic. The futuristic airport reflects the long term vision to build it as a major domestic and international hub. Hyderabad is centrally located and within a two hour flying time to all the major cities in India and 4 hours from major cities in the Middle East and South East Asia. The city has the potential not only to become one of the main hubs in India while also handling traffic between the East and West.

Railways

Andhra Pradesh offers effective rail connectivity to all major cities of the country for the transportation of goods traffic such as Coal, Iron ore, Cement, Food grains, Fertilizers, Minerals, Petroleum products and general merchandise.

The South Central Railway is headquarterd at Secunderabad with divisional headquarters at Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Vijayawada, Nanded and Guntur serving the area falling under Andhra Pradesh, Parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

The Government of Andhra Pradesh has outlined the Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) to address the problem of vehicular congestion and provide an efficient mode of transportation. The Multi Modal Transport System (MMTS) of Hyderabad covers 43 Kms of suburban route with facilities such as passenger concourse areas, platforms, booking counters, washrooms and signage have been created very aesthetically and in a passenger friendly manner.

The Hyderabad Metro Rail Project is also being taken up to meet the movement of commuters in the Greater Hyderabad. Government of India has approved the project and detailed DPR is being prepared. The project will be promoted in the lines of Delhi Metro.