GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL AND EXPRESS HIGHWAYS

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Lok Sabha

Roads connecting four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai are being widened to 4/6 lane under the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project being implemented by National Highways Authority of India. The present status of the project is as under :-

Total Length - 5846 km

Completed works - 1159 km

Contracts awarded - 4603 km

Balance for award - 84 km

There is one Expressway viz., Ahmadabad-Vadodara Expressway, which is part of GQ Project. The details are as below :-

S.No.	Details of Project	Estimated Cost (Rs. in crore)	Amount spent upto June, 2002 (Rs. in crore)
1.	Ahmadabad-Vadodara Expressway – Phase-I (km0.02 to km 43.4 in the State of Gujarat)	766.52 (on Special Purpose Vehicle basis)	127.74
2.	Ahmadabad-Vadodara Expressway – Phase-II (km43.42 to km 93.302 in the State of Gujarat)		70.68

An amount of Rs.5510.66 crore has been spent upto 30.6.2002 on GQ Project, which includes Rs.198.42 crore on Ahmadabad-Vadodara Expressway. The estimated cost of GQ Project is Rs.25050 crore, including Rs.766.52 crore for Ahamadabad-Vadodara Expressway.

There is no proposal of Salem-Cochin Express Highway. However, 4-laning of Salem-Cochin section of National Highway-47 is being taken up as a spur to North-South corridor of National Highway Development Project (NHDP).

Present status of the section is as under :-

(i) Km 0 (Salem) to Km.316 - Detailed project preparation being taken up

(ii) Km.316 to Km.332 - In progress

(iii) Km.332 to Km.349 (Cochin) - Already 4 laned.

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Road Transport and Highways, Major General (Retd.) B.C. Khanduri in reply to a question of Shri N.N. Krishanadas in Lok Sabha today.