Article: INDIA: ROAD DEVELOPMENT.

The Government has given high priority to highways' development. In the Golden Quadrilateral out of a total length of 5846 km 4-laning of 5319 km have been completed and work on balance 527 km is in progress. The length of the North-South and East-West Corridor in Phase-II is 6240 km out of which works have been awarded in 4684 km during the period from June, 2004 to April, 2006. The balance length to be awarded is 1481 km which includes 519 km of some stretches in Jammu & Kashmir and West Bengal. The Golden Quadrilateral is expected to be ready very soon. The Port Connectivity projects include improvement of links to the 11 numbers of major ports. NHDP is being ...

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