The union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday announced that the Nagpur-Hyderabad Road would be widened and the long distance of about five hundred kilometres could be covered in just three and a half hours. In conversation with the media Gadkari also said that “with this move, Hyderabad will come very close to the Nagpur city.”
Gadkari also said that the Central Government aims to build roads worth Rs 25,000 crore in the country, in the coming year, Nagpur and Hyderabad routes are also included in this. At present it takes around eigh to nine hours by road to cover the distance from Nagpur to Hyderabad. Mumbai-Pune Expressway will be made super fast, he added.