Corridor concept to road development

Description

The recently announced Bharatmala Pariyojana is an attempt to bring back the corridor concept to road development. Though the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) also started with corridors (the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ), the North-South-East-West (NSEW) and others including port connectivity in various phases), over the years, it had settled down to a package concept. While a grand project of 83,677 kms has been announced at a cost of Rs 6.92 lakh crore, the sharper focus is on 35,800 kms at a cost of Rs 5.35 lakh crore. Interestingly, out of the 34,800 kms of highways planned in Phase I, 10,000 kms are a carryover from the NHDP. The new 24,800 kms have been arrived at based on OD (origin destination) surveys and traffic assessments at over 1,500 points. While as a concept it is good, unfortunately, the OD survey carried out by RITES, the transport consultancy public sector under the Indian Railways, is dated to 2007. The traffic assessments are based on a combination of manual and automatic counts (including camera-based) and highlight congestion areas.............

Publication Date

1-12-2017

Publication Title

Yojana

Publisher

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Keywords

Transportation, Road development, Bharatmala Pariyojana, National highways development project, NHDP

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