ROAD TRANSPORT

India has one of the Road Network in the world.Sher Shah Suri built the Grand Trunk (G.T) Road from Kolkata in the east to Peshawar (now in Pakistan ) in the west across the Indo-Gangetic plains. The golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is the largest expressway project in India. It is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project ( NHDP), and consists of building 5,846 kilometers of four/ six lane expressway connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai (thus forming a quadrilateral of sorts), at a cost of Rs 60,000 crores. The Mumbai-pune Expressway is India's first six lane concrete high speed tolled expressway.

North-South and East- West corridors connecting Srinagar to kanniyakumari and Silchar to Porbandar will have a total length of 7300 km. Roads connecting to 10 major ports with Golden Quadrilaterals and corridors, namely Kandla, Jawaharlal Nehru port, Marmmagao, New Mangalore, Kochi Tuticorin, chennai and Ennore, Vishakapatnam, Paradip and Haldia (kolkata) will have a length of 363 km. 

IMOPRTANT NATIOAL HIGHWAYS

N.H

1.      Delhi…………………..Amritsar

2.      Delhi…………………..Kolkata

3.      Agra…………………...Mumbai

4.      Chennai………………..Thane (Mumbai)

 

6.   Kolkata…………………Hajir

7.   Varanasi………………...Kannya Kumari

8    Delhi……………………Mumbai

9.   Pune…………………….Machilipatnam

10. Delhi……………………Fazika

11. Agra…………………….Bikaner

12. Jabalpur…………………Jaipur

13. Sholapur………………...Mangalore

14. Beware………………….Radhanpur

15. Pathankot……………….Samakhiali

220.Kollam………………….Teni