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The East-West Corridor of the National Highways Development Project connects:
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Answer: Option C — Silchar and Porbandar
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The National Highways Development Project (NHDP), launched in 1998 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was a major programme to upgrade and widen India's main highways. It is implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), set up under the NHAI Act, 1988, which became operational in 1995.
The NHDP had two major components:
The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ): about 5,846 kilometres of four- to six-lane highways connecting the four major metropolitan cities of India, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, forming a quadrilateral. It was completed in 2012.
The North-South and East-West Corridors (NS-EW): about 7,300 kilometres of four-lane highways.
The North-South Corridor connects Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir with Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, passing through cities such as Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Madurai. It is about 4,000 kilometres long. It also has a spur from Salem to Kochi.
The East-West Corridor connects Silchar in Assam with Porbandar in Gujarat, passing through Guwahati, Siliguri, Muzaffarpur, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Kota, Udaipur and Rajkot. It is about 3,300 kilometres long.
The two corridors intersect at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh.
India has the second-largest road network in the world, after the USA, with over 63 lakh kilometres of roads. National Highways make up only about 2% of the road length but carry about 40% of road traffic. The longest National Highway is NH-44, running from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, largely along the North-South Corridor.
After the NHDP, the government launched the Bharatmala Pariyojana in 2017 to develop economic corridors, border roads and expressways. Its first phase covers about 34,800 kilometres.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Srinagar and Kanyakumari are connected by the North-South Corridor.
- ✗Delhi and Kolkata are connected by part of the Golden Quadrilateral.
- ✗Mumbai and Chennai are connected by part of the Golden Quadrilateral.
Quick tip
Remember: NS Corridor = Srinagar to Kanyakumari; EW Corridor = Silchar to Porbandar; they meet at Jhansi; GQ = Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata; NHAI Act 1988; longest NH = NH-44.
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