Outer Ring Road or Nehru Outer Ring Road is a 158 kilometer, 8-lane ring roadexpressway encircling Hyderabad the capital city of Telangana, India. The concept of First outer ring road in india was idea of N. Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister in 2001 with 158 km long surrounding the hyderabad have been proposed to decongest the traffic problem of the metropolitan region and to provide orbital linkage to arterial roads, access to the international airport and to other important urban node. while the land acquisition and construction of first phase road has started under Naidu Government and expressway became a reality in 2005 while it is built by HMDA at a cost of Rs. 6696 crores. with an assistance of ₹3,123 crores from Japan International Cooperation Agency. The expressway is designed for speeds up to 120 km/h. A large part, 124 km of the 158-km was opened by December 2012. It gives an easy connectivity between NH 44, NH 65, NH 161, NH 765 and NH 163 from Hyderabad to Vijayawada and Warangal as well as state highways leading to VikarabadNagarjunasagar and Karimnagar /Mancherial. The Ring Road also helps in reducing the travel time from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to cities like Nizamabad & Adilabad as it connects to NH44. The expressway is fenced and 33 radial roads connect it with the Inner Ring Road, and the upcoming Regional Ring Road.
History
After Telugu Desam Party government, in 2004 the newly formed Congress government made major changes to the project. The project was completed in 2 phases and is estimated to cost ₹3000 Crores.
The traffic studies on NH 44 and NH 65 concluded that a 4/6 lane road is due. The traffic movement on the existing inner ring road proved that the existing 4-lane road was inadequate. Due to the anticipated growth in the region and the development of proposed satellite townships around the ring road and beyond, an 8-lane carriageway was planned with a design life of 20 years. The conclusion was to develop a highway with access control provides highway grade separations or interchanges for all intersecting highways. Once it had been decided to develop the route as an expressway, all intersecting highways should be terminated, rerouted or provided with a grade separation. The proposed corridor was access-controlled and limited access was to be provided at National Highway/SHI Major road crossings. A 2-lane service roads designed to carry two-way traffic, were proposed on both sides of the corridor. Low level underpasses were to be provided for connecting both the service roads at every 1–2 km, where the terrain permits.
Opening timeline
14 November 2008: Gachibowli – Narsingi – Shamshabad
3 December 2012: Patancheru – Gowdavalli, and Kandlakoya – Shamirpet
4 March 2015: Pedda Amberpet – Ghatkesar
15 July 2016: Ghatkesar – Shameerpet
Land Acquisition
The First Phase land required was, out of which the private land acquired was. The land required for Second Phase is about, of which the Govt. land is about. The estimated Cost of Acquisition is ₹250 Crores.
Criticism
Much before the outer ring road became a ring road, it underwent several changes in the road alignments. Influential farmers and realtors changed the alignment to best serve their interests at the cost of small and marginal farmers. The High Court of Andhra Pradesh passed a landmark judgement on 9 September 2010 in which the land acquisition proceedings were quashed for various reasons.
