IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 14632 OF 2024

07.04.2026 Between:

Veginati Kishore & others ….. Petitioners And The Union of India, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi & others.

….. Respondents

O R D E R:

The case of Petitioners is that the National Highways Authority of India has planned the Greenfield Highway NH-163G from Nagpur in Maharashtra to Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, which is a Category "A" project as per the Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines. The said highway passes from Warangal to Khanımam to Vijayawada and the impugned alignment was approved on 03.01.2019 by NHAI and subsequently, approved by the Land Acquisition Committee on 20.08.2020, as reflected in the letter dated 08.02.2024 issued by the NHAI Project Implementation Unit-1, Khammam. The project appears to have been conceived much earlier and yet the process has been undertaken in a manner detrimental to public interest.

1.1. Petitioners further contend that the alignment crosses Wyra Road on the eastern side of Khammam city and successive notifications under Section 3 of the National Highways Act, 1956, namely S.