Andhra Pradesh: Centre to upgrade 10 state highways to national highways

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The Centre has agreed to convert around 10 major state highways inAndhra Pradeshintonational highways.

The Centre will spend close to Rs 8,000 crore for

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the upgrade. Further, majority of the proposed national highways would be converted into six lanes from the existing four and two lanes.

The Centre directed theNational Highways Authority of India(NHAI) to get the detailed project reports (DPRs) ready for taking up modernisation works. The Centre had already issued gazette notification by recognizing seven state highways as national highways and had given them new NH numbers.