The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the construction of the 4-Lane Badvel-Nellore Corridor spanning 108.13 km at a cost of Rs 36.53 billion in Andhra Pradesh on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer (DBFOT) mode.
This corridor will provide connectivity to important nodes in the three industrial corridors namely, Kopparthy Node on the Vishakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC), Orvakal Node on Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (HBIC) and Krishnapatnam Node on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC).
The corridor starts from Gopavaram Village on the existing national highway NH-67 in the YSR Kadapa district and terminates at the Krishnapatnam Port Junction on NH-16 (Chennai-Kolkata) in SPSR Nellore district and will also provide strategic connectivity to the Krishnapatnam Port, which has been identified as a priority node under CBIC.
The project will reduce the travel distance to Krishanpatnam port by 33.9 km. Moreover, it will reduce the travel time by one hour and ensure that a major gain is achieved in terms of reduced fuel consumption, thereby reducing carbon footprint and vehicle operating cost (VOC). Further, it is expected to have a positive impact on the Logistics Performance Index (LPI).