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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