National Highways
The National Highways Development project was enforced in 1998 underneath the leadership of Atal Sanskrit Vajpayee. "National Highways" account for under concerning two of the entire length of roads, however carry concerning four-hundredth of the entire traffic across the length and breadth of the country. This project is managed by the National Highways Authority of Asian nation (NHAI) underneath the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. The NHAI has endowed US$71 billion for this project, as of 2006.
The Network of National Highways in Asian nation
The project consists of the subsequent phases:
Phase I: The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ; five,846 km) connecting the four major cities of metropolis, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta. This project connecting four railway line cities, would be 5,846 km (3,633 mi). Total value of the project is Rs.300 billion (US$6.8 billion), funded mostly by the government’s special crude oil product tax revenues and government borrowing. In January 2012, Asian nation declared the multilane GQ route network as complete.[1][2]
Phase II: North-South and East-West corridors comprising national highways connecting four extreme points of the country. The North–South and East–West passageway (NS-EW; seven,142 km) connecting Srinagar within the north to Kanyakumari within the south, as well as spur from Salem to Kanyakumari (Via Coimbatore and Kochi) and Silchar within the east to Porbandar within the west. Total length of the network is seven,142 km (4,438 mi). As of thirty one October 2016, 90.99% of the project had been completed, 5.47% of the project work is underneath Implementation and three.52% of the entire length is left.[3][4] It conjointly includes Port property and different comes — 435 klick (270 mi). the ultimate completion date to twenty-eight Feb 2009 at a price of Rs.350 billion (US$8 billion), with funding kind of like clinical test.
Phase III: the govt. recently, NHDP clinical test and II, and property to centres of economic importance. Contracts are awarded for a two,075 km (1,289 mi).
Phase IV: the govt. is considering widening twenty,000 km (12,000 mi) of route that weren't a part of clinical test, II, or III. clinical trial can convert existing single-lane highways into 2 lanes with paved shoulders. The arrange can presently be bestowed to the govt. for approval.
Phase V: As road traffic will increase over time, variety of multilane highways can have to be compelled to be upgraded/expanded to 6 lanes. this arrange demand upgrade of concerning five,000 km (3,100 mi) of multilane roads, though the govt. has not nevertheless known the stretches.
Phase VI: the govt. is functioning on constructing expressways that may connect major business and industrial townships. it's already known four hundred klick (250 mi) of Vadodara (earlier Baroda)-Mumbai section that may hook up with the prevailing Vadodara (earlier Baroda)-Ahmedabad section. the planet Bank is finding out this project. The project are funded on larva basis. The 334 klick (208 mi) throughway between Chennai—Bangalore and 277 klick (172 mi) throughway between Kolkata—Dhanbad has been known and practicability study and DPR contract has been awarded by NHAI.
Phase VII: This section demand enhancements to town road networks by adding ring roads to modify easier property with national highways to special cities. additionally, enhancements are created to stretches of national highways that need extra flyovers and bypasses given population and housing growth on the highways and increasing traffic. the govt. has not nevertheless known a firm investment arrange for this section. The nineteen klick (12 mi) long Chennai Port—Maduravoyal Elevated throughway is being dead underneath this section
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