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Highlighting its engineering prowess and execution excellence, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) successfully created 4 Guinness World Records successful the implementation of Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada economical corridor (NH-544G).
According to an authoritative release, connected January 6, 2026, the NHAI created 2 Guinness World Records adjacent Puttaparthi.
The archetypal 1 was for the longest continuous laying of Bituminous Concrete (BC) covering 28.89-lane km oregon 3-lane wide 9.63- km-long conception wrong 24 hours. The 2nd grounds was for continuous laying of the highest quantity of 10,655 Metric Tons (MT) of BC successful 24 hours.
Both the records were established for the archetypal clip nether the six-lane National Highway task successful the economical corridor.
Building connected this momentum, 2 further Guinness World Records were created connected January 11, 2026.
These included the continuous laying of 57,500 MT of BC and continuous paving of 156-lane km oregon 3-lane-wide 52-km- agelong section, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 84.40-lane km oregon 2-lane-wide 42.20-km-long section.
The NHAI acceptable these records successful relation with concessionaire Rajpath Infracon Private Limited by deploying state-of-the-art operation instrumentality and machinery involving 70 tippers, 5 blistery premix plants, 1 paver, and 17 rollers.
Supported by stringent prime assurance mechanisms, the process was monitored for prime power with the assistance of premier institutions, including IIT-Bombay, on with OEMs, thereby ensuring adherence to the highest standards of prime and safety.
The 343-km-long, access-controlled six-lane Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada economical corridor had been designed for harmless and high-speed travel.
It features 17 interchanges, 10 wayside amenities, a 5.30-km-long passageway and a 21-km-long conception of the corridor passing done a wood area.
Once completed, the corridor would trim question region by 100 km from existent 635-km to 535-km and chopped the question clip by astir 4 hours from the existent 12 hours to astir 8 hours betwixt Bengaluru and Vijayawada.
