GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL

HIGHWAYS
GROUP MEMBERS
 CHAUDHRY SHAMSHUD 05
 KHAN SHAHBAZ 15
 RATHOD JITENDRA 25
 SONAWNE AMRUTA 35
 SHAIKH SHAHEEN 45

 GUIDED BY:PROF VARHAN

INTRODUCTION
SCENARIO BEFORE……
 Ruling monarchs-brick roads
 Most famous highways-grand trunk road

 British
CURRENT SYSTEM
 67000 km connecting all major cities
 2 lane,4 lane,8 lane

 Government working……

 World’s second largest altitude motor highway

RECENT DEVELOPMENT…..
GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL HIGHWAYS
 Atal bihari vajpayee
 1998 NHDP

 Connecting metros together

 Carry 40%of the total traffic

 1995:private investment in the building & maintenance

of highway
 Managed by national highway authority of India
 Rs 60000 crores
 Funded by-the government specialpetrolium product tax
revenue & government borrowings
 Provide national connectivity to remote places

 Bypasses

 Many are under construction

 Longest national highway-NH7-2369km
 Shortest national highway-NH47A-6 km

 Oldest highway-NH1-456 km that links national capital

to the town of attali in punjab near the India pakistan
international border
INDIAN ROAD NETWORK
Class
Access Controlled Expressways
4-6 lane Divided Highways (with
service rd in crowded areas)
National Highways
State Highways
Major district roads
Rural & other roads
Total (approx)
Length (km)
200 km (120 mi)
10,000 km (6,200 mi)
66,590 km (41,380 mi)
131,899 km (81,958 mi)
467,763 km (290,654 mi)
2,650,000 km (1,650,000 mi)
3,300,000 km (2,050,000 mi)
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)
 IMPORTANT CITIES
Delhi – Kolkata Delhi – Mumbai Chennai – Mumbai Kolkata – Chennai
•Delhi •Delhi •Chennai •Kolkata
•Faridabad •Gurgaon •Kanchipuram •Kharagpur
•Mathura •Jaipur •Walajapet •Baleshwar
•Agra •Ajmer •Ranipet •Cuttack
•Firozabad •Chittaurgarh •Vellore •Bhubaneshwar
•Etawah •Udaipur •Vaniyambadi •Berhampur
•Kanpur •Gandhinagar •Bargur •Srikakulam
•Allahabad •Ahmedabad •Krishnagiri •Vizianagaram
•Varanasi •Vadodara •Hosur •Visakhapatnam
•Mohania •Surat •Bangalore •Kakinada
•Dehri-on-son •Silvassa •Tumkur •Rajahmundry
•Asansol •Mumbai •Sira •Eluru
•Durgapur •Chitradurga •Vijayawada
•Bardhaman •Davangere •Guntur
•Kolkata •Ranebennur •Ongole
•Mumbai •Chennai
CURRENT STATUS
Length Percent
Total
No. Segment Completed Completed As of (date)
Length (km)
(km) (%)

Delhi- June 30,

1. 1452.3 1453 99.95
Kolkata 2010

Chennai- June 30,

2. 1288 1290 99.87
Mumbai 2010

Kolkata- June 30,

3. 1633 1684 96.99
Chennai 2010

Mumbai-
4. 1419 1419 100 Nov 2006
Delhi

June 30,
Total 5793 5846 99.09
2010
THE LENGTH OF GQ IN EACH STATE
 The completed Golden Quadrilateral will pass through 13 States of India:
 Andhra Pradesh – 1,014 km (630 mi)
 Uttar Pradesh – 756 km (470 mi)
 Rajasthan – 725 km (450 mi)
 Karnataka – 623 km (387 mi)
 Maharashtra – 487 km (303 mi)
 Gujarat – 485 km (301 mi)
 Orissa – 440 km (270 mi)
 West Bengal – 406 km (252 mi)
 Tamil Nadu – 342 km (213 mi)
 Bihar – 204 km (127 mi)
 Jharkhand – 192 km (119 mi)
 Haryana – 152 km (94 mi)
 Delhi – 25 km (16 mi)
 Total – 5,846 km (3,633 mi)
CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS
 In August 2003, Jharkhand-based project director Satyendra
Dubey, in a letter to the Prime Minister, outlined a list of
malafide actions in a segment of this highway in Bihar.
 Dubye's claims included that big contractors had inside
information from NHAI officials that the contractors for this
stretch were not executing the project themselves (as stipulated
in the contract) but subcontracting the work small builders who
lacked technical expertise and that no follow-up was performed
after awarding advances.
 Dubey's name was leaked by the PMO to the NHAI and he was
transferred against his wishes to Gaya, Bihar, where he was
murdered on November 27.
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 (NHDP Phase- III) including
4,000 km that has been already approved. An accelerated
road development programme for the North Eastern region.
 2-laning with paved shoulders of 20,000 km of National
Highways under NHDP Phase-IV.
 6-laning of GQ and some other selected stretches covering
6,500 km under NHDP Phase-V.
 Development of 1,000 km of express ways under NHDP
Phase-VI.
 Development of ring roads, bypasses, grade separators,
service roads, etc. under NHDP Phase-VII.
PHASES
 The project is composed of the following phases:
 Phase I: The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ; 5,846 km) connecting the
four major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. This
project connecting four metro cities, would be 5,846 km. Total cost
of the project is Rs300 billion (US$6.8 billion).
 Phase II: North-South and East-West corridors comprising national
highways connecting four extreme points of the country. The
North-South and East-West Corridor (NS-EW; 7,300 km)
connecting Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the south,
including spur from Salem to Kochi (Via Coimbatore), and Silchar
in the east to Porbandar in the west. Total length of the network is
7,300 km. As of January 2009, 42% of the project had been
completed and 44% of the project work is currently at progress.It
also includes Port connectivity and other projects — 1,157 km. The
final completion date to February 28, 2009 at a cost of Rs350 billion
(US$8 billion), with funding similar to Phase I.
 Phase III: The government recently approved NHDP-III to
upgrade 12,109 km of national highways on a Build, Operate and
Transfer (BOT) basis, which takes into account high-density
traffic, connectivity of state capitals via NHDP Phase I and II,
and connectivity to centres of economic importance. contracts
have been awarded for a 2,075 km.
 Phase IV: The government is considering widening 20,000 km of
highway that were not part of Phase I, II, or III. Phase IV will
convert existing single lane highways into two lanes with paved
shoulders. The plan will soon be presented to the government for
approval.
 Phase V: As road traffic increases over time, a number of four
lane highways will need to be upgraded/expanded to six lanes.
The current plan calls for upgrade of about 5,000 km of four-lane
roads, although the government has not yet identified the
stretches.
 Phase VI: The government is working on constructing expressways
that would connect major commercial and industrial townships. It has
already identified 400 km of Vadodara (earlier Baroda)-Mumbai
section that would connect to the existing Vadodara (earlier Baroda)-
Ahmedabad section. The World Bank is studying this project. The
project will be funded on BOT basis. The 334 km Expressway
between Chennai—Bangalore and 277 km Expressway between
Kolkata—Dhanbad has been identified and feasibility study and DPR
contract has been awarded by NHAI.
 Phase VII: This phase calls for improvements to city road networks by
adding ring roads to enable easier connectivity with national highways
to important cities. In addition, improvements will be made to
stretches of national highways that require additional flyovers and
bypasses given population and housing growth along the highways
and increasing traffic. The government has not yet identified a firm
investment plan for this phase. The 19-km long Chennai Port—
Maduravoyal Elevated Expressway is being executed under this phase.
NHDP AT GLANCE
Indicative Cost
NHDP Phase Particulars Length [Indian Rupees (in
crores)]
Balance work of
NHDP-I & II GQ and EW-NS 13,000 42,000
corridors
NHDP-III 4-laning 10,000 55,000
NHDP-IV 2-laning 20,000 25,000
6-laning of selected
NHDP-V 5,000 17,500
stretches
Development of
NHDP-VI 1,000 15,000
expressways
Ring Roads,
Bypasses, Grade
NHDP-VII 700 15,000
Separators, Service
Roads etc.
1,69,500 (Revised
Total 45,000
to 2,20,000)
TIMELINE OF NHDP
NHDP Length
Priority Status Approval Completion
Phase (km)
Fully December December
1 Phase I 5846
awarded 2000 2006
Award in December December
2 Phase II 7300
progress 2003 2009
Already December
3 Phase III A 4000 March 2005
identified 2009
5700 km of
GQ + November December
4 Phase V 6500
800 km to 2005 2012
be identified
Already December
5 Phase III B 6000 March 2006
identified 2012
Ring roads
December December
6 Phase VII A 700 to be
2006 2012
identified
To be December December
7 Phase IV A 5000
identified 2006 2012
 Ring roads to December December
8 Phase VII B
be identified 2007 2013

To be December December
9 Phase IV B 5000
identified 2007 2013

Already December December

10 Phase VI A 400
identified 2007 2014

Ring roads to December December

11 Phase VII C
be identified 2008 2014

To be December December
12 Phase IV C 5000
identified 2008 2014

To be December December
13 Phase VI B 600
identified 2008 2015
CONCLUSION