The Government is building new highways that will criss-cross the country and alter the roadmap of India
It is a road-building spree unparalleled in modern India. By 2007 the Vajpayee Government wants to build 14,000 km of four-lane highways criss-crossing the length and breadth of the country. The total cost: a whopping Rs 56,000 crore.
The road-laying machines have already started work on the 5,952 km Golden Quadrilateral project that aims to connect Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The highway is slated for completion by December 2003. Also underway are the even more ambitious North-South and the East-West corridors that will snake out across 7,000 km.
To get an idea about the scale of the projects look back over the last 50 years. The Government
