Question

The North-South and East-West corridors of the National Highway Development Project meet at
1. Kanpur
2. Jhansi
3. Lucknow
4. Varanasi

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Jhansi

The correct answer is Jhansi.

• Jhansi is the junction of North-South and East-West Corridors and four stretches are common between the Golden Quadrilateral the NS-EW Corridors.
• The NS-EW Corridor passes from 17 states and from Delhi along with other states capitals such as Srinagar, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Lucknow, and Dispur.
• The North-South and East-West Corridor is the largest ongoing highway project in India.
• It is the second phase of the National Highways Development Project consists of building four/six-lane expressways connecting Srinagar (North), Kanyakumari (South), Porbandar (West), and Silchar (East).

• The National Highways Authority of India initiated the National Highway Development Program in 1998 to ease chronic capacity constraints by upgrading key arteries of the National Highways network.
• The project, which this validation is reviewing, was the third loan financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the multiyear lending program.
• The program upgraded into four lanes that are corridors connecting the major metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata (known as the golden quadrilateral).
• The North-South corridor connecting Srinagar to Kanyakumari (4,000 km), and the East-West corridor connects Silchar to Porbandar (3,300 km).
• The North-South corridor is a 4,000 kilometers corridor that runs through NH 44 from Srinagar-Udhampur-Jammu–Jalandhar–Delhi–Agra–Gwalior–Jhansi–Narsinghpur-Lakhnadon-Nagpur-Hyderabad-Bengaluru-Salem-Madurai to Kanyakumari.
• East-West Corridor includes 3,300 kilometers corridor via NH 27 from Porbandar-Rajkot-Samakhiali-Radhanpur-Kota-Jhansi–Kanpur-Lucknow-Ayodhya-Gorakhpur-Muzaffarpur-Darbhanga-Supaul-Purnia-Kishanganj-Galgalia-Bijni-Guwahati-Nagaon-Dabaka to Silchar.