Due to growing traffic and pressure on National Highway 44 (North-South Corridor) (NH-44), which runs from Uri in Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the highway will not be able to cope with the future traffic and vehicular load, despite four-laning along most of the entire route, especially the stretch from Nagpur to Bengaluru, due to the cities' growing population.
So, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) planned to build an expressway between those two cities through Hyderabad, in 2017.
In May 2018, a private firm was selected for preparing the Detailed Project Report (DPR), and still continues to be underway.
[4] The expressway, initially, was expected to be completed after 2025, by building it at a cost of ₹ 35,000 crore (US$ 4.2 billion).
However, due to delays in implementation and preparations for pre-construction and construction works, the expressway has currently no scheduled deadline, as of 2023, but it is assumed to be completed by at least before 2030.