NHAI bags four Guinness World Records on Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada Economic Corridor

Key facts

• The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) created two records on January 6 near Puttaparthi: longest continuous laying of bituminous concrete covering 28.89 lane km and highest quantity of 10,655 metric tonnes laid in 24 hours.
• On January 11 NHAI added two more records: continuous laying of 57,500 metric tonnes of bituminous concrete and continuous paving of 156 lane km (52 km of 3-lane width), surpassing the previous world record of 84.4 lane km.
• The record-setting works were executed across Package-2 and Package-3 of the 343-km access-controlled six-lane Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada Economic Corridor on NH-544G.