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As of 2021, 64.5% of all goods in India are moved through the country's road network, 90% of India's total passenger traffic uses the road network to commute and the road network contributes 4.8% to the country's gross domestic product. [25] In 2023, India's road network became the world's second largest, after the United States. [26]
Vartak, also known as Project VARTAK is a project of the Border Roads Organisation under the Ministry of Defence of India. [5] It was formed on 7 May 1960 as a provision of the 2nd Border Roads Development Board Meeting with the then Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru as Project Tusker, which was later renamed Project Vartak in 1963. [ 6 ]
In India, this is the network of roads maintained by the state governments. These roads are constructed and managed by the states' Public Works Department . The state highways are usually roads that link important cities, towns and district headquarters within the state and connect them with National Highways or state highways of neighbouring ...
The Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Limited (MPRDC) is an Undertaking of Government of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, responsible for management of a network of over 22,000 km of National Highways, State Highways and Major District Roads in Madhya Pradesh. [4] Madhya Pradesh State has a good road network.
NABARD and state government shares the funds required for the development of rural roads. In 2010, NABARD sanctioned ₹ 816 crore (US$94 million) for augmentation of 508 rural roads in 30 districts, upgrading 44 district roads and 39 major district roads in 18 districts and construction of 121 bridges in 31 districts of the state. [11]
As per 2024 estimates, the total road length in India is 6,700,000 km (4,200,000 mi); making the Indian road network the largest road network in the world. At 0.66 km of highway per square kilometre of land the density of India's highway network is higher than that of the United States (0.65) and far higher than that of China's (0.16) or Brazil ...
ACN College of Engineering & Management Studies, Kasimpur Road, VIll.- Cherrat 6 340 Vivekanand College of Technology & Management, Near Khair Road 7 341 Institute of Technology & Management, Aligarh-Palwal-Delhi Road, Karsua 8 518 SSLD Varshney Engineering College, Aligarh - Kanpur G.T. Road 9 524 Vision Institute of Technology, Shahpur Madrak 10
Other roads include major district roads (MDR), other district roads (ODR), rural & sugarcane roads and special roads such as East Coast Road, IT Expressway, Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project (EMRIP), Chennai Port – Maduravoyal Expressway and Outer Ring Road Project. These roads provide linkage between various towns and centers within ...