Hyd-Bijapur NH turns very accident-prone

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad- Bijapur National Highway (NH-163) has become an accident prone road. This highway has witnessed several accidents and so many people have lost their lives. The main causes for these accidents are that the road is too narrow and officials have not taken measures to widen the road and there are also too many dangerous turns which are causing accidents. No caution boards. December 02, seven members lost their lives in an accident on this highway at Malkapur.

NH-163 becomes a hotspot for accidents. In the last three years 2018-2020, 184 people lost their lives and 561 persons were injured in 444 accidents which took place on this Highway. Under Chevella police station limits 113 people were killed and 210 were injured in 210 accidents. Under Moinabad police station limits 37 people killed, 228 injured in 228 accidents, and under Shahabad police station limits 34 persons killed, 116 persons injured in 6 accidents.

NH-163 has been under the control of National Highways Authority of India since 2017. NHAI decided to expand the highway road from Appa junction of ORR to Manneguda . The State government also started the 67.71 Hector's land acquiring process. Later the process of land acquisition was stopped. The NHAI expected road expansion works to complete in the budget of 740 crore, but there is no progress of road expansion of road works as of now.

There are many dangerous turns between Langarhouse and Maneeguda, which has become the main cause for the accidents on this highway. There are dangerous turns at Thopkhan pool bridge, Bandlaguda, Hider Shah Kotla, Military school, Arre Masiama, Appa junction, Rane Injanwal, Ammapur junction, Himayat Nagar junction, Swamy Narayan Gurukul, Enikepally junction, Aziz Nagar junction, Mrugavani Park, kanakamamidi, Appareddy guda Kethireddy Pally, Mudimyal, Malkapur, Ibrahim Pally areas.

Though there have been many requests made by the public in order to reduce the number of turns on the road and to widen it, the authorities have failed to take any serious action.