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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has acceptable an ambitious people of making the State pothole-free, with roadworthy repair works scheduled to beryllium completed by the extremity of January, Roads and Buildings Minister B.C. Janardhan Reddy said connected Tuesday.
Addressing a media league astatine the A.P. Secretariat successful Amaravati, the Minister said the authorities had sanctioned ₹3,000 crore for the repair and improvement of 10,294 km of roads crossed the State. Road infrastructure had been accorded apical precedence aft the conjugation authorities assumed office, with funds released promptly to velocity up execution of works, helium said.
Under the Mission Pothole-Free programme, repair works covering 20,060 km were taken up during 2024–25 with an allocation of ₹861 crore. However, dense rains and cyclones during 2025–26 caused caller harm to roadworthy networks, prompting the authorities to authorisation ₹2,500 crore truthful acold this twelvemonth to reconstruct and amended 6,035 km of roads. Proposals seeking an further ₹500 crore for repairing 4,259 km of large territory roads and State Highways person besides been submitted, helium added.
The Minister said works connected 85 roads connecting mandal and territory office were presently successful progress, portion respective different projects were being implemented with backing enactment from NABARD, the Central Road Fund and different sources. He said the authorities besides planned to make State Highways done public-private concern and Hybrid Annuity models to header with rising postulation volumes.
Responding to queries connected projected caller tolls, Mr. Janardhan Reddy clarified that two-wheelers, autorickshaws and tractors would beryllium exempted, and tolls would use lone to cars and goods vehicles.
