India sets Guinness record for longest highway paved in 24 hours

By Phan Anh January 14, 2026 | 04:40 pm PT

A highway in Andhra Pradesh, India. Photo courtesy of Surender Kumar

A highway project in India's Andhra Pradesh has entered the Guinness World Records after paving the longest stretch of highway ever within 24 hours, officials said.

The record was set on Jan. 6 along the Vanavolu–Vankarakunta stretch of National Highway 544G, part of the Bengaluru-Kadapa-Vijayawada Economic Corridor, Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said.

Construction teams laid 28.95 lane-kilometers of bituminous concrete in a single day, Times of India reported.

The project also set a second milestone by placing 10,675 tonnes of material within the same timeframe, officials said.

The work was carried out under standard quality and monitoring procedures and observed to meet Guinness World Records requirements, Hindustan Times reported.

India's National Highways Authority said the feat was achieved using large-scale deployment of construction equipment and real-time quality control, with oversight from institutions including IIT Bombay and original equipment manufacturers to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

The achievement follows an earlier Guinness record set in India in 2022, when a stretch of National Highway 53 in Maharashtra logged 75 kilometers of continuous paving in just over 105 hours, replacing a record previously held outside the country.