The Road System in India and Its Importance

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THE ROAD SYSTEMIN INDIA AND

ITS IMPORTANCE

By,

Bhargav, Revanth, Aakash, Chaitanya,Kartavya and Abhiram


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INTRODUCTION

India has one of the largest road systems in the

world. It has one of the most well connected road

systems in the world which covers every nook andcorner of India.

Indias infrastructure s a lot in terms of quantity but

the quality of the roads are not so good.


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ROADS IN INDIA

India's road network consists of national

highways, state highways, district roads and

village roads.

Roadways in India have come a long way. Startingfrom the pugdandies.of earlier times to the

present-day Rajpath of Delhi ,the country has

crossed many spheres of road travel. Mentions to road constructions have been

mentioned as early as the Atharva Veda.


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ROADS IN INDIA

The main periods in which Indias road

development was in golden stages was:

-The Gupta and the Maurya Period

-The Mughal Period

-The period of the rule of the British.


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IMPORTANCE

We may not think of it but we use roads almosteveryday in our life. They are presenteverywhere. Imagine our life's without roads.

Roads are the vital lifelines of the economymaking possible trade and commerce.

Roads facilitate movement of both men and

materials anywhere within a country


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IMPORTANCE

It is a relatively cheaper mode of transport as

compared to other modes.


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THE GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL

The Golden Quadrilateral is a highway

network connecting India's four largest

metropolises: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and

Kolkata.

Four other top ten metropolises: Bangalore,

Pune, Ahemdabad, and Surat, are also served

by the network.


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THE GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL

This highway project , initiated by Atal Bihari

Vajpayee, it is the first phase of the National

Highway Development Project (NHDP), and

consists of building 5,846 km (3,633 mi) offour/six lane express highways at a cost of

(US$13.3 billion).


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THE EAST-WEST CORRIDOR & THE

NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR The North South - East West Corridor

(NS-EW) is the largest ongoinghighway project in India. It is thesecond phase of the NationalHighways Development Project

(NHDP) It consists of building 7300

kilometers of four/six laneexpressways connecting Srinagar,Kanyakumari, Porbandar and Silchar,

at a cost of US$ 12.317 billion (at1999 prices). As of September 2010,5258 of 7300 km project has beencompleted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinagarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyakumari_(town)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porbandarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinagarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silcharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silcharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyakumari_(town)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porbandarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silcharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silcharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porbandarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyakumari_(town)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinagar


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NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

National Highways are the major Highways of

India which connect almost all the places in

India.

The National Highways are the primary long-

distance roadways and span about

67,000 km (42,000 miles).

Most of the National highways are only two

laned(one lane on each side)


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NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

National highways carry approximately 40 %

of the total traffic but they are only 2 % of the

entire road network

Out of total length of national highways , 27 %

is single lane/intermediate lane; whereas 59 %

is double-lane standard; and the rest 14 % is

four-lane/ six-lane/ eight lane standard


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FACTS ON THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY

The longest National Highway is the NH 7

which stretches across a distance of 2,369

kilometers from Varanasi to Kanyakumari.

The shortest National highway is the NH 47A

connecting Kundanoor Junction in Kochi city

to the Kochi port at Willingdon Island which is

surprisingly only 5.9 km


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EXISTING ROADWAYS WITH THEIR

LENGTH NATIONAL HIGHWAYS 66,754 KM

STATE HIGHWAYS 1,28,000 KM

DISTRICT ROADS 4,70,000 KM

VILLAGE ROADS 26,50,000 KM


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Share of Transport in Indias GDP

SectorSector 1999-

2000

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Transport

of which:

5.9 6.8 6.7 6.7 6.7 6.6

Railways 1.3 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

Roadways 3.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8

The above table shows the contribution of the Transport sector to the GDP of thenation. It also shows the individual contribution of the Road and the Railway sector to

the GDP respectively

You can notice that the road sectors contribution to the GDP is increasing and the

railways contribution is slowly decreasing


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Condition of the Roads
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Proposed Expressway near Delhi


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CONCLUSION

Transport is the lifeline of any economy. To

ensure smooth movement of transport, it is

essential to have good roads.

The government should build roads with

proper planning which last longer so that we

have better infrastructure for the years to

come.


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