National Highways Development Project

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The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) was a project of four laning of existing national highways and six laning of selected major national highways of India. The project was started in 1998 under the leadership of Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 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 (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. The NHDP represents 49,260 km of roads and highways work and construction in order to boost economic development of the country. The government has planned to end the NHDP program in early 2018 and subsume the ongoing projects under a larger Bharatmala project.

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The Network of National Highways in India

Project 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, is Template:Convert. Total cost of the project is Rs.300 billion (US$6.8 billion), funded largely by the government’s special petroleum product tax revenues and government borrowing. In January 2012, India announced the four-lane GQ highway network as complete.[1][2]
  • 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; 7,142 km) connecting Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the south, including spur from Salem to Kanyakumari (Via Coimbatore and Kochi) and Silchar in the east to Porbandar in the west. Total length of the network is Template:Convert. As of 31 October 2016, 90.99% of the project had been completed, 5.47% of the project work is under Implementation and 3.52% of the total length is left.[3][4] It also includes Port connectivity and other projects — Template:Convert. The final completion date to 28 February 2009 at a cost of Rs.350 billion (US$8 billion), with funding similar to Phase I.
  • Phase III: The government on 12 April 2007 approved NHDP-III to upgrade Template:Convertof 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.
  • Phase IV: The government on 18 June 2008 approved widening Template:Convert 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.
  • Phase V: As road traffic increases over time, a number of four-lane highways will need to be upgraded/expanded to six lanes. On 5 October 2006 the government approved for upgrade of about Template:Convert of four-lane roads.
  • Phase VI: The government is working on constructing Template:Convert expressways that would connect major commercial and industrial townships. It has already identified Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert Expressway between Chennai—Bangalore and Template:Convert 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 planned to invest Rs. 16,680 Cr for this phase. The Template:Convert long Chennai Port—Maduravoyal Elevated Expressway is being executed under this phase.
National Highways Development Project at a glance
NHDP Phase Particulars Length Indicative cost ₹ ( in cr)
NHDP-I & II Balance work of GQ and EW-NS corridors Template:Convert 42,000
NHDP-III 4-laning Template:Convert 55,000
NHDP-IV 2-laning Template:Convert 25,000
NHDP-V 6-laning of selected stretches Template:Convert 17,500
NHDP-VI Development of expressways Template:Convert 15,000
NHDP-VII Ring Roads, Bypasses, Grade Separators, Service Roads etc. Template:Convert 15,000
Total Template:Convert 1,690,500 (Revised to 2,200,000)

Note: 1 crore= 10 million

Timeline of the National Highways Development Project
Priority NHDP Phase Length (km) Status Approval Completion Target
1 Phase I Template:Convert Complete December 2000 December 2006
2 Phase II Template:Convert Award in progress December 2003 December 2009
3 Phase III A Template:Convert Already identified March 2005 December 2009
4 Phase V Template:Convert 5700 km of GQ + 800 km to be identified November 2005 December 2012
5 Phase III B Template:Convert Already identified March 2006 December 2012
6 Phase VII A Template:Convert Ring roads to be identified December 2006 December 2012
7 Phase IV A Template:Convert To be identified December 2006 December 2012
8 Phase VII B Ring roads to be identified December 2007 December 2013
9 Phase IV B Template:Convert To be identified December 2007 December 2013
10 Phase VI A Template:Convert Already identified December 2007 December 2014
11 Phase VII C Ring roads to be identified December 2008 December 2014
12 Phase IV C Template:Convert To be identified December 2008 December 2014
13 Phase VI B Template:Convert To be identified December 2008 December 2015
14 Phase IV D Template:Convert To be identified December 2009 December 2015

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Status from NHAI website

National Highways Development Project is being implemented in all phases. The present phases are improving more than 49,260 km of arterial routes of NH network to international standards. The project-wise details of NHDP all phases is below as of 18 May 2021:

NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT(NHDP)
Projects Total Length(Km.) Already 4/6 Laned(Km.) Under Implementation (Km.) Contracts Under Implementation (No.) Balance length for award(Km.)
NHDP GQ 5,846 5,846

(100.00%)

0 0 -
NS - EW

Ph. I & II

7,142 6,568 300 28 274
Port

Connectivity

435 383 52 7 -
NHDP Phase III 11,809 7,621 2,161 71 2,027
NHDP Phase IV 13,203 4,058 6,050 105 3,095
NHDP Phase V 6,500 2,564 1,428 33 2,508
NHDP Phase VI 1,000 - 184 9 816
NHDP Phase VII 700 22 94 4 584
NHDP Total 46,635 27,062 10,269 257 9,304
Others (Ph.-I, Ph.-II & Misc.) 2,048 1,743 305 18 -
SARDP -NE 110 110 0 1 -
Total by NHAI 48,589 28,915* 10,574 276 9,304
*Total 20,000 km was approved under NHDP Phase IV, out of which 13,203 km was assigned to NHAI and remaining Km with MoRTH. [5]

Subsummation in Bharatmala project

National Highway Development Project will close by first half of 2018, with the launch of Bharatmala project.[6] 10,000 km of highway construction left under NHDP will be merged with Phase I of the Bharatmala.[6] Template:Citation needed span

See also

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Similar rail development
Similar roads development
Similar ports and river transport development
Similar air transport development
Highways in India
General

References

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External links

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