Reportedly residents of vijayawada who have been facing severe traffic congestion on the arterial roads of the city have been waiting for the Kanaka Durga flyover to partially solve their woes for more than three years now. The flyover, which was sanctioned in 2014 after the tdp government came to power, was first expected to be completed by 2016, a year after the foundation stone was laid. Meanwhile after facing multiple delays and deadline extensions, in november 2019, the Roads and Buildings Department officials told Andhra chief minister jagan mohan reddy that the flyover would be completed by the end of January.
Furthermore with the deadline fast approaching, the flyover has been delayed yet again by a month. krishna district collector Mohammed Imtiaz, who inspected the progress of construction last week, has said that nearly 85% of the work has been completed so far. Perhaps with yet another extended deadline, here is a look at the snail-paced progress that the flyover had made over the years. The 2.3 km-long flyover is being built with an estimated cost of Rs 447 crore along National Highway 65, which connects hyderabad and Vijayawada. It starts at Kummaripalem and ends at the Rajiv gandhi Municipal Park, passing over temple Road and Canal Road besides the prakasam barrage.
Moreover from the beginning of the project, the estimated time for its completion has been unclear. In june 2012, former chief minister chandrababu naidu had rallied against the then congress government of erstwhile andhra pradesh, demanding the construction of the flyover on behalf of locals. Challenging the government’s claims of impracticality of such a construction, Naidu is reported to have claimed that given the chance, he would complete the flyover ‘in a year’, and ‘without troubling traffic.’
