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The Golden Quadrilateral project connects four major Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata - with multi-lane highways. It was launched in 1999 to provide faster transport networks between these cities and ports, enabling industrial development and economic growth. The project has significantly boosted manufacturing activity near the highways and facilitated a 49% overall increase in average district output. It has added to India's GDP, created transportation efficiencies, and improved rural development through enhanced connectivity. However, some districts located away from the north-south and east-west highways did not see changes in economic activity.

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Insights Mind Maps: Golden Quadrilateral Project

The Golden Quadrilateral project connects four major Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata - with multi-lane highways. It was launched in 1999 to provide faster transport networks between these cities and ports, enabling industrial development and economic growth. The project has significantly boosted manufacturing activity near the highways and facilitated a 49% overall increase in average district output. It has added to India's GDP, created transportation efficiencies, and improved rural development through enhanced connectivity. However, some districts located away from the north-south and east-west highways did not see changes in economic activity.

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General Studies-3; Topic: Infrastructure; roads, transport

Golden Quadrilateral Project


1) Introduction
 In 1999, then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee laid the foundation stone for the Golden
Quadrilateral (GQ) Highway project.
 The Golden Quadrilateral is the longest road project in India and the fifth-longest highway in the
world
 It connects four major cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
 The GQ project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry
of Road, Transport and Highways.
 The Golden Quadrilateral constitutes only the national highways of the country and not state
highways and rural-urban roadways.

2) Benefits for the country


 Provides faster transport networks between major cities and ports
 Provides connectivity to major agricultural, industrial, and cultural centres of India
 Provides smoother movement of goods and people within the country
 Enables industrial development and job creation in smaller towns through access to varied markets
 Farmers are able to transport their produce to major cities and towns for sale and export, and there
is less wastage and spoils.
 More economic growth through construction and indirect demand for steel, cement, and other
construction materials
 Giving an impetus to Truck transport throughout India.
 Reduced wastage for the agriculture sector, and a decrease in vehicle operating costs and time.

3) Impact of Road Infrastructure Development


 An efficient road network is essential for a large country like India to maintain national integration
and socio-economic development.
 It promotes rapid industrialization through cheaper and more efficient movement of goods, people,
and ideas across places.
 Road infrastructure affects the flexibility and mobility of the workforce
 Rapid urbanization and demographic changes in India call for an acceleration of investment in road
infrastructure.

4) Impact of Golden Quadrilateral


 Provided a huge boost to manufacturing activity and productivity in districts located within 10km of
the network.
 Facilitated the movement of growing young firms out of the congested big cities
 49% overall output increase for the average district located on the Golden Quadrilateral network.
 Encouraged efficient decentralization by making intermediate cities more attractive to
manufacturing entrants.
 Moderate-density districts—like Surat in Gujarat or Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh—that border
Golden Quadrilateral registered more than 100% increase in new output.
 Industries showed improved efficiency

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 Golden Quadrilateral has added to GDP, created efficiencies in transportation, provided jobs and
improved rural development through enhanced connectivity.

5) Challenges
 Tight fiscal space and broader issues of governance, doing business, climate change and
competition policy have made it more challenging for infrastructure investments
 Districts near to the north-south and east-west (NS-EW) highway did not experience any change in
activity.
 India has one of the lowest average speeds for trucks which adds to fuel consumption costs and
transportation delays.

6) Importance of Roads
 Transportation of goods and passengers for short and medium distances.
 Establishes easy contact between farms, fields, factories and markets and provides door to door
service.
 Roads are a necessary complement to railways.
 Roads are highly significant for the defence of the country. Border roads facilitate the movement of
troops for the protection of borders.

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