The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has achieved a rare feat by completing a single lane of the four-lane stretch of 25.54 km being developed between Vijaypur-Solapur (NH 52) in a record time of 18 hours, Union minister for Road Transport, Highways Nitin Gadkari said on his Twitter handle.
¡°This quick work will be added to the Limca Book of Records. I congratulate workers and the project director of NHAI, other officials, representatives of the company,¡± he said.
This road is part of the high density traffic corridor Bengaluru-Chitradurga-Vijayapura-Solapur-Aurangabad-Dhule-lndore-Gwalior.
The project was undertaken by IJM India Infrastructure Limited (IJMII), subsidiary of Malaysia¡¯s IJM Construction Berhad.
According to Gadkari about 500 employees of the contractor company worked hard for this. ¡°Along with these employees, I congratulate the National Highways Authority project manager, officers, all the representatives of the contractor company and the project officers,¡± Gadkari said.
An official from the NHAI, on the condition of anonymity, said, ¡°In total 25.54 km of road asphalting work has been carried out in 18 hours. It is not done end-to-end but they have done it in five different places at the same time.¡±