Five flyover, underpass works along 15-km stretch leave over 5 lakh commuters battling traffic on Mumbai Highway

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Construction work is under way at the Novopan junction, where main carriageways on either side have been closed and traffic diverted onto temporary two-lane service roads. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement

With construction work on for four flyovers and an underpass on a 15-kilometre stretch of the Mumbai Highway (NH-65), more than five lakh commuters travelling through one of Telangana’s busiest industrial corridors are contending with daily bottlenecks, diversions and shrinking road space.

The traffic is affected on the corridor from ICRISAT, near BHEL Township to Ganesh Gadda, where flyovers are being built at Isnapur X roads, Lakdaram junction, Rudraram and Ismailkhanpet, along with an underpass at Novopan junction.

At Novopan junction, construction of retaining walls for the vehicle underpass has gathered pace and the carriageways on either side have been closed and traffic diverted onto temporary two-lane service roads measuring only about eight to 10 metres in width.

Traffic diversions in place between Patancheru and Sangareddy where construction activity is under way. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement

Vehicles travelling from the ORR and Sangareddy towards Patancheru are being routed through the left-side service road from Pocharam Kaman up to Patancheru Vegetable Market Road before rejoining NH-65. Traffic in the opposite direction is being diverted from Incor Lake City Apartments up to Ramky Infra Tower before merging back onto the highway.

The stretch in Patancheru, now under Cyberabad police commissionerate, serves as a critical artery linking Hyderabad with Sangareddy and further towards Maharashtra and Karnataka, while also supporting daily movement to some of State’s largest industrial clusters. Traffic police estimate that over 5 lakh commuters use the corridor every day. This includes around 2 lakh employees in the pharmaceutical and manufacturing units located in IDA Patancheru and IDA Pashamylaram.

School and college buses and heavy goods vehicles transporting