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The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) was a project of four laning of existing national highways and six laning of selected major national highways of India. The project was started in 1998 under the leadership of Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. National Highways account for only about 2% of the total length of roads, but carry about 40% of the total traffic across the length and breadth of the country. This project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. The NHDP represents 49,260 km of roads and highways work and construction in order to boost economic development of the country. The government has planned to end the NHDP program in early 2018 and subsume the ongoing projects under a larger Bharatmala project.
The project is composed of the following phases:
| NHDP Phase | Particulars | Length | Indicative cost ₹ ( in cr) |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHDP-I &II | Balance work of GQ and EW-NS corridors | 13,000 km (8,100 mi) | 42,000 |
| NHDP-III | 4-laning | 10,000 km (6,200 mi) | 55,000 |
| NHDP-IV | 2-laning | 20,000 km (12,000 mi) | 25,000 |
| NHDP-V | 6-laning of selected stretches | 5,000 km (3,100 mi) | 17,500 |
| NHDP-VI | Development of expressways | 1,000 km (620 mi) | 15,000 |
| NHDP-VII | Ring Roads, Bypasses, Grade Separators, Service Roads etc. | 700 km (430 mi) | 15,000 |
| Total | 45,000 km (28,000 mi) | 1,690,500 (Revised to 2,200,000) |
Note: 1 crore= 10 million
| Priority | NHDP Phase | Length (km) | Status | Approval | Completion Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phase I | 5,846 km (3,633 mi) | Complete | December 2000 | December 2006 |
| 2 | Phase II | 7,300 km (4,500 mi) | Award in progress | December 2003 | December 2009 |
| 3 | Phase III A | 4,000 km (2,500 mi) | Already identified | March 2005 | December 2009 |
| 4 | Phase V | 6,500 km (4,000 mi) | 5700 km of GQ + 800 km to be identified | November 2005 | December 2012 |
| 5 | Phase III B | 6,000 km (3,700 mi) | Already identified | March 2006 | December 2012 |
| 6 | Phase VII A | 700 km (430 mi) | Ring roads to be identified | December 2006 | December 2012 |
| 7 | Phase IV A | 5,000 km (3,100 mi) | To be identified | December 2006 | December 2012 |
| 8 | Phase VII B | Ring roads to be identified | December 2007 | December 2013 | |
| 9 | Phase IV B | 5,000 km (3,100 mi) | To be identified | December 2007 | December 2013 |
| 10 | Phase VI A | 400 km (250 mi) | Already identified | December 2007 | December 2014 |
| 11 | Phase VII C | Ring roads to be identified | December 2008 | December 2014 | |
| 12 | Phase IV C | 5,000 km (3,100 mi) | To be identified | December 2008 | December 2014 |
| 13 | Phase VI B | 600 km (370 mi) | To be identified | December 2008 | December 2015 |
| 14 | Phase IV D | 5,000 km (3,100 mi) | To be identified | December 2009 | December 2015 |
"Financing of the National Highway Development Programme" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2007.
National Highways Development Project is being implemented in all phases. The present phases are improving more than 49,260 km of arterial routes of NH network to international standards. The project-wise details of NHDP all phases is below as of 18 May 2021:
| NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT(NHDP) | ||||||
| Projects | Total Length(Km.) | Already 4/6 Laned(Km.) | Under Implementation (Km.) | Contracts Under Implementation (No.) | Balance length for award(Km.) | |
| NHDP | GQ | 5,846 | 5,846
(100.00%) |
0 | 0 | - |
| NS - EW
Ph. I &II |
7,142 | 6,568 | 300 | 28 | 274 | |
| Port
Connectivity |
435 | 383 | 52 | 7 | - | |
| NHDP Phase III | 11,809 | 7,621 | 2,161 | 71 | 2,027 | |
| NHDP Phase IV | 13,203 | 4,058 | 6,050 | 105 | 3,095 | |
| NHDP Phase V | 6,500 | 2,564 | 1,428 | 33 | 2,508 | |
| NHDP Phase VI | 1,000 | - | 184 | 9 | 816 | |
| NHDP Phase VII | 700 | 22 | 94 | 4 | 584 | |
| NHDP Total | 46,635 | 27,062 | 10,269 | 257 | 9,304 | |
| Others (Ph.-I, Ph.-II & Misc.) | 2,048 | 1,743 | 305 | 18 | - | |
| SARDP -NE | 110 | 110 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Total by NHAI | 48,589 | 28,915* | 10,574 | 276 | 9,304 | |
| *Total 20,000 km was approved under NHDP Phase IV, out of which 13,203 km was assigned to NHAI and remaining Km with MoRTH. [5] | ||||||
National Highway Development Project will close by first half of 2018, with the launch of Bharatmala project.[6] 10,000 km of highway construction left under NHDP will be merged with Phase I of the Bharatmala.[6] Sagarmala and Setu Bharatam are also expected to fill in the void created by closure of NHDP project.[citation needed]
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