To ensure safe access to the villagers while approaching to national highway on the entrance point, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is preparing to ground a Vehicle Underpass (VUP) at Tondupally Village in Shamshabad soon while three more similar projects were proposed on NH.44 under Rangareddy District.
This project is a part of the ongoing road safety measures aimed at providing safety to the villagers while they are moving closer to national highways. They could have access to their villages on both the sides leaving a complete hassle free passage for highway users atop the bride. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has already embarked on Vehicle Underpass (VUP) projects at the very entrance of each village connecting to national highways in the state.
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Over the years the demographic paradigm in rural area has significantly changed with considerable increase in population and traffic moment leading to several accidents on highways closed to villages and nothing different is the situation in Rangareddy district especially at Tondupally opposite to Railway Track on NH.44, where the traffic situation has drastically changed in recent years and demands an urgent remedial approach.
Anticipating the same the officials of NHAI had mooted an idea three years ago to construct a Vehicle Underpass (VUP) at Tondupally which got the government’s nod only four months back. “A Vehicle Underpass (VUP) project was proposed atleast three years ago keeping in mind the safety of the villagers at Tondupally village in Shamshabad but the same was approved only four months ago. With an estimated cost of Rs.22 crores, the project will be grounded soon after completing the tender process. It may take one-and-a-half months to begin the work at the site after fixing the agency and will take atleast fifteen months of time to get it into full shape,” informed the Deputy Executive Engineer, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
Recently, the officials of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) have gone into huddle with MLA Rajendranagar T.Prakash Goud and discussed in length about the road expansion plan and the safety measures being taken up keeping in mind the safety of the nearby villagers. The MLA asked the officials to take up the project as soon as possible to allow rural people safe access to their villages while providing a similar safe passage to the highway users atop the bridge.
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Besides, the MLA also proposed before the officials three more Vehicle Underpasses one at Gagan Pahad in Rajendranagar and other two at Siddhanti and Palamakula Village in Shamshabad Zone.
