Entire UP stretch (Delhi-Kolkata road) of Golden Quadrilateral opens

Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project,the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete.

Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project,one of the biggest highway networks in the country,the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete,except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad,which would be ready in March.

The entire GQ stretch in UP has been completed and made operational, said A C Srivastava,Regional Officer,National Highways Authority of India (NHAI),Uttar Pradesh. The ROB at Tundla was added to the project after NHAI completed the GQ stretch recently.

Meanwhile,NHAI has started an exercise for six-laning of the stretch in UP. Originally,GQ was planned as a four-lane project. The contracts for six-laning of Delhi-Agra and Varanasi-Aurangabad (Bihar) sections have been awarded and work will start very soon. The detailed project reports for six-laning of other stretches are under preparation, said an NHAI official.

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The work on the GQ project began in 2000 to connect four metropolitan cities Delhi,Mumbai,Chennai and Kolkata. The four segments of the stretch are Delhi-Kolkata link (1,453 km),Delhi Mumbai link (1,419 km),Mumbai-Chennai link (1,290 km) and the Kolkata-Chennai link (1,684 km).

The GQ passes through 13 states,including Andhra Pradesh,UP,Rajasthan,Karnataka,Maharashtra,Gujarat,Orissa,West Bengal,Tamil Nadu,Bihar,Jharkhand,Haryana,Delhi.

In UP,the GQ enters from Faridabad and exits to Bihar after connecting Agra,Etawah,Kanpur,Allahabad and Varanasi.

NHAI officials said that GQs other segments have also been completed. However,according to the NHAI website,certain parts of the GQ stretch were yet to be completed as on September 30,2010.

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