Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of the Union, approved Rs 12.92 billion under the Bharatmala Pariyojana for the development of a 32 km long 6-lane access control Greenfield Highway in Andhra Pradesh from Chandrasekharapuram to Polavaram on the (NH-544G) Bengaluru-Vijayawada Economic Corridor in hybrid annuity mode.

In a series of tweets, the minister stated that the Bengaluru - Kadapa - Vijayawada Economic Corridor starts at the Bengaluru STRR and extends to the Kodikonda checkpoint on NH 44.

Gadkari went on to say that the proposed Greenfield Economic Corridor would run from the Kodikonda checkpoint (Kodur village) on NH-44 (Bangalore - Hyderabad Road) to the village of Muppavaram near Addanki on NH-16.

According to the minister, the alignment uses the existing NH-16 from Muppavaram to Vijayawada. "The entire corridor from Kodikonda checkpost to Muppavaram with a length of 342.5 Km is completely a Greenfield highway. This piece in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh is proposed to be developed in 14 packages. "