National Highways Development Project (NHDP)
The Government launched National Highways Development Project (NHDP) to upgrade and strengthen National Highways through various phases of National Highways Development ‘project (NHDP). The NHDP project is primarily being implemented through NHAI. Some projects under NHDP Phase III and NHDP Phase IV are being directly implemented by Ministry through State PWDs. The phase-wise details of NHDP (including other projects on NHs by NHAI) as on 31.10.2017 are as follows:
| Sl.
No. |
NHDP
Component |
Total Length
(km) |
Completed length
(km) as on 31.10.2017 |
Under implementation
(km) |
Balance for award of civil works (km) |
| 1. | GQ under NHDP Phase I | 5,846 | 5,846 | 0 | 0 |
| 2. | NS-EW Corridors under NHDP Phase I & II | 7,142 | 6,582 | 289 | 271 |
| 3. | Port Connectivity under NHAI | 435 | 387 | 48 | 0 |
| 4. | Other NHs with NHAI | 2,195 | 1,756 | 439 | 0 |
| 5. | NHDP Phase III
Upgradation, 4/6-laning |
12,125 | 7,861 | 2,388 | 1,876 |
| 6. | NHDP Phase IV
2 – laning with paved shoulders |
20,000 | 7,833 | 7,838 | 4,329 |
| 7. | NHDP Phase V
6-laning of GQ and High density corridor |
6,500 | 2,612 | 1,380 | 2,508 |
| 8. | NHDP Phase VI
Expressways |
1,000 | 0 | 184 | 816 |
| 9. | NHDP Phase VII
Ring Roads, Bypasses and flyovers and other structures |
700 | 22 | 94 | 584 |
| Total | 55,943# | 32,899 | 12,660 | 10,384 |
(# included 49,519 km of total NHs, 24km length of Chennai—Ennore port connectivity road, 700 kms NH length under NHDP –VII, other than overlapping length of NHs (5700 kms NH length is common under NHDP-I and NHDP-V, 1000 km proposed Expressway under NHDP-VI).
Sources of funding for NHDP
The NHDP is funded from Cess collected form Petrol & Diesel (as per Central Road Fund Act, 2000), amount collected from toll apart from External Assistance, Internal & Extra Budgetary Resources (IEBR) and Private Sector Investment.