Khammam-Devarapalli Expressway: Greenfield Highway Route Map and Exits

The Khammam-Devarapalli greenfield highway is a 4-lane, access-controlled road on a new alignment. It starts at Tallampadu (Thallampadu) village in Khammam district, Telangana, and ends at Devarapalli in Andhra Pradesh, from where traffic continues towards Rajamahendravaram and Visakhapatnam. Reports at the August 2026 opening gave the length as 162.04 km with nine interchanges; NHAI's package records give the design length as 162.126 km.

Because the road is access-controlled, you can join or leave it only at interchanges. Tallampadu is the main access point and toll plaza: traffic from Suryapet towards Khammam enters at Tallampadu and can run through to Devarapalli. Truck lay-bys are at Vandanam and Chowdavaram, and railway overbridges were built at Dhamsalapuram.

The table gives fixed reference points from NHAI's package records, in chainage order. They are package boundaries, not a list of interchanges.

Many people search for a route map PDF. No official village-wise route map PDF could be found on NHAI's website. The legal record of which survey numbers the road takes is the set of 3A and 3D notifications under the National Highways Act, 1956. You can view the alignment against village boundaries on the 1acre map layer.

These are the distances buyers and travellers ask about most, taken from NHAI's design chainage and from reports at the opening.

The saving comes from avoiding the older route through Suryapet and Vijayawada. For land, the useful number is not the distance to Devarapalli but the distance from a plot to the nearest interchange, because an access-controlled road gives no benefit to land that cannot reach it.

NHAI runs the Khammam-Devarapalli Expressway as a 4-lane access-controlled greenfield corridor. Greenfield means new land taken from private pattadars under the National Highways Act, 1956. Access-controlled means no side entry, no field driveway, no shop opening onto the corridor. Interchanges are the only entry and exit points.

Land acquisition and 3D notifications are closed. NHAI acquired 1,996 acres of agricultural land across 31 villages spread over 10 mandals in Khammam district alone. NHAI built the corridor in five civil packages, and vehicles have been allowed on it since 2 August 2026. The corridor crosses two state jurisdictions: about 105 km of the 162.12 km stretch sits in Khammam district (Telangana), and the balance falls in NTR and Eluru districts of Andhra Pradesh. That state border matters.

The table below shows what a Khammam-Devarapalli Expressway land buyer must verify before any advance payment.

The trap is state-border jurisdiction. Land registration for a Khammam-district parcel goes through Telangana's Dharani portal at dharani.telangana.gov.in. Land registration for a Tiruvuru or Devarapalli parcel goes through Andhra Pradesh's Meebhoomi portal at meebhoomi.ap.gov.in.

The two portals do not talk to each other. A seller quoting a Telangana pattadar number for a plot on the AP side is either mistaken or misleading. NHAI's Bhoomi Rashi entry covers both, but state registration and mutation follow the state the parcel physically sits in. Telugu revenue vocabulary matters: pattadar is the recorded owner, survey number is the plot identifier, pahani is the Telangana ROR record, adangal is the Andhra Pradesh ROR record.

Khammam has been under active mutation for multiple corridors simultaneously. Where two projects touch a single survey number, the district collector's LA cell handles compensation, but registration blockage is real. Verify both project lists before executing.

The corridor cuts across three districts: Khammam (Telangana), NTR (Andhra Pradesh), and Eluru (Andhra Pradesh). Each stretch has its own micro-market logic. Khammam is the corridor origin and the trunk town. Sattupalli sits mid-corridor with paper and industrial anchors. Tiruvuru is the AP-side entry point. Jangamreddy Gudem and Devarapalli anchor the eastern terminus.

The 162.12 km corridor is the eastern section of the 221 km Suryapet-Devarapalle Expressway (NH-365BB and NH-365BG), also called the Hyderabad-Visakhapatnam Expressway. On its western end it links to the Suryapet-Khammam segment, and on its eastern end it ties into NH-16 (the Kolkata-Chennai trunk) near Devarapalli. The corridor's real economic pull comes from Vizag port access, not just Hyderabad-Vizag freight.

The table below shows the micro-markets along the alignment and their present buyer risk profile.

The most misread market is Khammam city itself. NH-365BB and the Suryapet-Khammam alignment together push corridor-adjacent land into speculative pricing. Some plots being marketed as "expressway-adjacent" sit inside the notified 3D corridor, not next to it. Ask for the exact chainage and the pattadar number, then match against the Telangana Dharani portal.

On the Andhra Pradesh side at Tiruvuru, verify with State Highway 178's chainage; the SH-178 alignment feeds into the expressway near the state border, and some seller pitches conflate the two. In Jangamreddy Gudem and Devarapalli mandals, cross-check with the NH-16 alignment and any AP RERA layout registration. A Khammam-Devarapalli Expressway land purchase without a fresh pahani or adangal, a district-collector search, and the correct state's Sub-Registrar verification is guesswork.

As of October 2026, the highway is open to traffic but its formal inauguration and toll collection could not be confirmed from an official source.

• January 2026: a 120 km stretch was opened on trial during Sankranthi. NHAI halted it within five days after accidents.
• 2 August 2026: vehicles were allowed again after radium stickers, caution boards and lighting were added. Speed limits are 100 km/h for cars and 80 km/h for heavy vehicles. Tolling is to be distance-based, as on Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road, and starts only after the formal inauguration.
• 13 September 2026: further accidents were reported in Khammam district. NHAI's project director said safety steps would be reviewed; ambulances and towing vehicles were not yet fully deployed.

The road was built in five packages under Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase I, all on the hybrid annuity model.