THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS(MAJOR GENERAL (RETD.) B.C. KHANDURI)
(a) & (b) The details of the financial assistance received during the last three years and thereafter from World bank and other foreign institutions are as under:
Sl.No. Year Loan Financial Institutions States and National Highways covered
1 1999-2000 Nil - -
2 2000-2001 US $ 516.0 Million World Bank Uttar Pradesh, Bihar & JharkhandGolden Quadrilateral Project - National Highway No. 2
3 2000-2001 US $ 180.0 Million Asian Development Bank Gujarat & MaharashtraGolden Quadrilateral Project - National Highway No. 8
4 2001-2002 US $ 589.0 Million World Bank Uttar Pradesh, Bihar & JharkhandGolden Quadrilateral Project - National Highway No. 2
5 2001-2002 US $ 240.0 Million Asian Development Bank KarnatakaGolden Quadrilateral Project - National Highway No. 4
(c) & (d) The Projects are in various stages of implementation.
(e) The Government has undertaken a prestigious programme of National Highways Development Project (NHDP). NHDP comprises 4/6-laning of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) connecting the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and North-South & East-West Corridor connecting Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Silchar to Porbandar, respectively. In respect of non-NHDP sections of National Highways, Government has been undertaking improvement of riding quality, widening and strengthening, on the basis of traffic needs, inter-se priority and availability of funds.
