• Replanning of the project to save the best stretches with large, mature banyans.
  • Declare the highway till Vikarabad, which includes the reserve forests/scrub habitats at Mudimiyal and Kandlapally abutting NH-163, as the Telangana Biodiversity Heritage Road.
  • The banyans of Chevella may be one of the last stretches of road-lining banyans to survive in Telangana. Since this is an old highway, the banyans can be dated to the last Nizam’s enlightened green policy of planting shade-bearing trees alongside major roads. Mudimiyal and Kandlapally are two of the few remaining grassland/scrub habitats on NH-163. They play host to many grassland specialist animals, notably the migrating Harriers that winter here and the now rare Tawny Eagles that nest here (listed as ‘vulnerable’ in the IUCN Red List).