National Highways Development Project

The National Highways Development Project is a project for the extension, repair and widening of National Highways in India. The project was decided in 1999. National Highways are only about 2 % of all roads, but they cause 40% of all road traffic in the entire country. The project is implemented by the National Highways Authority of India ( NHAI ) an agency of the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways.

Phases

The project consists of the following phases:

  • Phase I: The Golden Quadrilateral ( GQ ), the 5846 km long connection between the four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. This phase shall be funded in large part from a special fuel tax credits and the government. A four-lane connection has been completed, except for small sections 2011.
  • Phase II: The North-South and East-West Corridor consists of the National Highways connecting the four extreme points of the country. The corridor connecting Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the south with a branch from Salem to Kanyakumari (via Coimbatore and Kochi and Silchar in the east to Porbandar in the west. The total length of the corridor is 7300 km. In August 2011, 79.4 % of which were completed and 12.7% worked. compounds include the connection of seaports and other construction projects with a length of 1157 km. financing is similar to phase I.
  • Phase III: Phase III also includes the extension of 12,109 km national highways. The interest is well traveled sections, the connection of the capitals of the states from Phase I and Phase II and the connecting economic centers. 2075 km were commissioned. It will be funded through a Public Private Partnership model.
  • Phase IV: There is the plan 20,000 km National Highway, which were not developed in Phase I, Phase II or Phase III to expand. In Phase IV -lane highways are expanded into two-lane roads with a fixed edge strips.
  • Phase V: To respond to the growing volume of traffic, a number of four-lane highways to be developed into six-lane roads. There are about 5,000 km of roads to be expanded.
  • Phase VI: The development of connections between major commercial and industrial centers with Expressway. A 400- km section to connect to Vadodara Ahmedabad; to a corresponding road between Vadodara and Mumbai is provided. A 334 km long Expressway connection between Chennai and Bangalore and a 277 km long Expressway connection between Kolkata and Dhanbad are provided in this phase. It will be funded through a Public Private Partnership model.
  • Phase VII: In Phase VII is about the improvement of urban transport by -pass roads are constructed with a connection to National Highways in major cities. In this phase includes the expansion of sections by bypass roads and highways, where urban growth makes this necessary. A 19- km long flyover in Chennai will be built in this phase.

(Note: the completion dates are the official estimates: the NHAI publishes reports on the specific progress on their website)

Further plans

The Indian government further plans for the expansion of National Highways:

  • Four-lane extension of 10,000 km in Phase III. Increased development of roads in the north - east of the country
  • Two-lane expansion with attached edge strip of 20,000 km of roads in Phase IV
  • Six-lane expansion of GQ and other sections. ( 6,500 miles) in phase V
  • Expansion of bypass roads, road dividers, service roads in Phase VII
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