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Friday, Jun 02, 2006
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Logistics
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Roadways NH network widened with 8 new road stretches Our Bureau
Chennai , June 1 Eight new stretches of roads, including two in Tamil Nadu, with a total length of 1,551 km have been added to the national highways network, with the Union Government bringing in a notification to that effect on Thursday. The eight stretches of national highways, which were earlier under the charge of the respective state governments, are culturally important, and rich in trade and commerce, according to the Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Mr T.R. Baalu.
New highways
The new national highways are Eastern Peripherals Expressway around Delhi (134 km), Srinagar-Leh Road (422 km), Thanjavur-Manamadurai (144 km), Tiruchi-Chidambaram (135 km), Ahmedabad-Dandi (374 km), Lucknow-Rae Bareily-Allahabad (185 km), Burdwan-Bolpur (52 km) and Delhi-Akbarpur-Jadunathpur-Bihar/UP border (105 km), he said. The Ahmedabad-Dandi stretch is famous for the Dandi Yatra undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi and the Burdwan-Bolpur is famous for the presence of Santiniketan. Similarly, the Tiruchi-Chidambaram national highway has a number of heritage temples, Mr Baalu told newspersons. On the 5,846 km Golden Quadrilateral project, which connects the four metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata passing through 13 states, Mr Baalu said the Delhi-Mumbai corridor was completed. Over 91 per cent (5,319 km) was completed as of April 2006, and 96 per cent is slated for completion by December. The remaining four per cent suffers from litigation and problems arising out of contracts. The country's road network of 33.4-lakh km is second largest in the world and consists of expressways (200 km), national highways (66,590 km), state highways (1.28 lakh km), major district roads (4.7 lakh km) and rural and other roads (26.50 lakh). National highways constitute about two per cent of the road network but carry about 40 per cent of the total road traffic.
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