NHDP:

National Highways Development Programme (NHDP), consisting the golden quadrilateral and the
north-south,east-west corridors has been launched.

NHDP is being implemented by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

NHDP is the India’s largest ever highway project.

It involves four and six laning of 13,146 Km of roads with a total cost of Rs.54,000 crores.

For a country of India's size, an efficient road network is necessary both for national integration as
well as for socio-economic development. The National Highways (NH), with a total length of 66,590
km, serve as the arterial network across the country. The ongoing programme of four-laning the 5846
km long Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata is nearing
completion. The ongoing four-laning of the 7,142 km North-South East-West (NSEW) corridor is to be
completed by December 2009. In its third meeting held on 13 January, 2005, the Committee on
Infrastructure adopted an Action Plan for development of the National Highways network. An
ambitious National Highway Development Programme (NHDP), involving a total investment of
Rs.2,20,000 crore upto 2012, has been established. The main elements of the programme are as
follows:

Four-laning of the Golden Quadrilateral and NS-EW Corridors

(NHDP I & II)
The NHDP Phase I and Phase II comprise of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) linking the four
metropolitan cities in India i.e. Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata, the North-South corridor connecting
Srinagar to Kanyakumari including the Kochi-Salem spur and the East-West Corridor connecting
Silchar to Porbandar besides port connectivity and some other projects on National Highways. Four-
laning of the Golden Quadrilateral is nearing completion. Four-laning of 7,166 km under NHDP-I and
2,440 km under NHDP-II has been completed upto December 2008. Four-laning of 7,166km under
NHDP-I and 2,440 km under NHDP-II has been completed upto December 2008. The contracts for
projects forming part of NS-EW corridors are being awarded rapidly for completion by December
2009.

GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL

Total Length 5,846 kilometres (3,633 mi)

Development cost Rs. 60,000 crores

Delhi - Kolkata

Length 1,453 kilometres (903 mi)

Route NH 2
 Delhi - Mumbai

Length 1,419 kilometres (882 mi)

Route NH 8, NH 79A, NH 79, NH 76

Mumbai - Chennai

Length 1,290 kilometres (800 mi)

Route NH 4, NH 7, NH 46

Kolkata - Chennai

Length 1,684 kilometres (1,046 mi)

Route NH 6, NH 60, NH 5

The Golden Quadrilateral is a highway network in India connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, thus

forming aquadrilateral of sorts. The largest highway project in India, initiated by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, it is the first

phase of theNational Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 5,846 kilometres of

four/six lane express highways at a cost of Rs. 60,000 crores (US$ 12.317 billion at 1999 prices).[1] As of 2008,

while the Golden Quadrilateral makes up under 2 percent of India's road network, it carries about 40% of the

country's traffic and accounts for one-third of its traffic deaths.[2]

The vast majority of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is not access controlled, although safety features such as

guardrails, shoulders, and high-visibility signs are used. As of September 2007, 96% of the entire work has been

completed however.[3] In September 2009, it was announced that the existing four-laned highways would be

converted into six-lane highways.[4] The project was reported at various stages to be behind schedule mainly due

to land acquisition constraints and disputes with contractors which had to be re-negotiated.[5][6]

The GQ project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road,

Transport and Highways. The Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the first controlled-access toll road to be built in India

is a part of the GQ Project though not funded by NHAI, and separate from the main highway. Infrastructure

Leasing & Financial Services(IL&FS) has been one of the major contributors to the infrastructural development

activity in the GQ project.

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

The GQ project establishes better and faster transport networks between many major cities and ports. It provides

an impetus to smoother movement of products and people within India. It enables industrial and job development

in smallertowns through access to markets. It provides opportunities for farmers through better transportation of

produce from the agricultural hinterland to major cities and ports for export, through lesser wastage and spoils.

Finally, it drives economic growth directly through construction as well as through indirect demand for cement,

steel and other construction materials

ROUTE

Only National Highways are used in the Golden Quadrilateral. The four legs use the following National Highways:

 Delhi - Kolkata: NH 2

 Delhi - Mumbai: NH 8 (Delhi - Kishangarh), NH 79A (Ajmer bypass), NH

79 (Nasirabad - Chittaurgarh), NH 76(Chittaurgarh - Udaipur), NH 8 (Udaipur - Mumbai)

 Mumbai - Chennai: NH 4 (Mumbai - Bangalore), NH 7 (Bangalore - Krishnagiri), NH 46 (Krishnagiri

- Ranipet), NH 4(Ranipet - Chennai)

 Kolkata - Chennai: NH 6 (Kolkata - Kharagpur), NH 60 (Kharagpur - Balasore), NH 5 (Balasore -

Chennai)

The length of quadrilateral IN EACH STATE

The completed Golden Quadrilateral will pass through 13 States of India:

 Andhra Pradesh - 1,014 km

 Uttar Pradesh - 756 km

 Rajasthan - 725 km

 Karnataka - 623 km

 Maharashtra - 487 km

 Gujarat - 485 km

 Orissa - 440 km

 West Bengal - 406 km

 Tamil Nadu - 342 km

 Bihar - 204 km

 Jharkhand - 192 km

 Haryana - 152 km
 Delhi - 25 km

 Total - 5,846 km

FUTURE PLANS

Sections of NH-2, NH-5 and NH-8 have now been prioritized for further widening to six lanes under DBFO

(Design, Build, Finance, Operate) pattern and more sections would be six-laned in the near future.On NH - 8 Six

lanes work is completed from Vadodara to Surat and now the highway is 6-track

GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL HAS MILES TO GO

The government has officially announced that it would be finishing the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ), the first phase of
the national highway development programme (NHDP) by December 2006. In the projections under the outcome budget
released on Thursday, the ministry for road transport and highways has said that it would finish upgradation of all 5,846 km of
highways under GQ by December 2006, that, is a year after the official deadline of its completion — December 2005.

The ministry had been saying all along that it would be able to finish only 92% of the project by December 2005. As on July 31,
2005, it has finished four-laning of 4,944 km of national highways, while 902 km are under implementation.

Significantly, however, the ministry has also projected that it would wrap the second phase of NHDP, the north-south east-west
(NSEW) by its official deadline of December 2007. This is contrary to the current scenario, wherein the government has
completed four-laning of only 777 km of national highways, out of the total of 7,300 km under the scheme, as on July 31, 2005.
Stretches totaling 2,766 km are still under implementation.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had terminated eight contracts, seven of them last year itself. These contracts
pertained to important stretches of NHDP and even ministry sources have said that this development has greatly hampered the
progress of NHDP. Moreover, as the entire process of issuing fresh contracts takes as long as six months, and keeping in mind
the current rate of progress, sources say that NSEW would be wrapped up only by middle of 2008.

Other reasons behind delay in NHDP projects, have been shifting of utilities, non-performance of contractors and local law and
order problems.

To look into these problems, the ministry has also formed an empowered committee of secretaries under the chairmanship of
the Cabinet secretary.

The ministry has also projected that during the current fiscal, it plans to spend Rs 8,800 crore for the development of national
highways during the current fiscal.

While it has spent Rs 1,760 crore between April 1-June 30, 2005 (Q1), it would be spending Rs 2,200 crore, Rs 2,640 crore,
and Rs 2,200 crore during the second, third and fourth quarters of the current fiscal respectively.

Apart from this, the ministry plans also stated that it would spend Rs 1,400 crore for six-laning of national highways and two-
laning of expressways under phase III A of NHDP, during the current fiscal. It has spent Rs 280 crore during the first quarter,
while it aims to spend Rs 350 crore, Rs 420 crore and Rs 350 crore during the second, third and fourth quarter of the current
fiscal.

After the government phase III A in March 2005, the ministry awarded contracts for six projects, covering 421 km during the
same month. In April along, it had issued 14 contracts, and currently contracts are being awarded on a regular basis....

Jul 23, 2003 (E.NZ Magazine - ABIX via COMTEX)

India is modernising its roads in the nation's biggest ever infrastructure project. Multi-lane highways will connect
all four corners of the country. Construction of the Golden Quadrilateral, which will link Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai
and Mumbai, employs 137 contractors, 28,000 engineers and 560,000 workers. One of the international
companies participating in the project is New Zealand consultancy Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner. Beca oversees
the construction of two roads. It also manages ...

National Highways Development Project

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The National Highways Development Project is a project to upgrade, rehabilitate and widen
major highways in India to a higher standard. The project was implemented in 1998.
"National Highways" account for only about 2% of the total length of roads, but carry about
40% of the total traffic across the length and breadth of the country. This project is
managed by the National Highways Authority of India under the Ministry of Road, Transport
and Highways. The NHAI has implemented US$ 71 billion for this project, as of 2006.

Future plans

The Indian Government has set ambitious plans for upgrading of the National Highways in a
phased manner in the years to come. The details are as follows:

 4-laning of 10,000 km (6,200 mi) (NHDP Phase- III) including 4,000 km (2,500 mi) that has
been already approved. An accelerated road development programme for the North Eastern
region.
 2-laning with paved shoulders of 20,000 km (12,000 mi) of National Highways under NHDP
Phase-IV.
 6-laning of GQ and some other selected stretches covering 6,500 km (4,000 mi) under NHDP
Phase-V.
 Development of 1,000 km (620 mi) of express ways under NHDP Phase-VI.
 Development of ring roads, bypasses, grade separators, service roads, etc. under NHDP
Phase-VII.

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भाराराप्रा
Abbreviation
NHAI

Formation 1988[1]

Type Autonomous Government Agency

Legal status Active

Purpose/focus Development and maintenance of

 National Highways

Headquarters G 5&6

Location Sector-10, Dwarka New Delhi-110075

Coordinates: / 28.583689°N
Coordinates 77.057886°E

Region served India

Hindi
Official languages
English

Chairman Brijeshwar Singh

Main organ Board of directors[2]

Ministry of Road Transport and

Parent organization
Highways