North-South and East-West Corridor

Map of the north-south (red) - east-west (green) corridor

The North-South and East-West Corridor is the largest construction project for national highways in India . The aim of the construction project is to connect the northernmost and southernmost as well as the easternmost and westernmost places in the country with a 7300 km long road link on the standard of a four- or six-lane highway. The north-south connection extends from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the south with a branch to Kochi . The east-west connection extends from Porbandar in the west to Silchar in the east. The construction of the corridor is part of the National Highways Development Project and is overseen by the National Highways Authority of India .

route

Only the following sections of the National Highways are used along the corridor:

North-South Corridor (length: 4000 km): NH 1A between Srinagar and Jalandhar , NH 1 between Jalandhar and Delhi , NH 2 between Delhi and Agra , NH 3 between Agra and Gwalior , NH 75 between Gwalior and Jhansi , NH 26 between Jhansi and Lakhnadon , NH 7 between Lakhnadon and Kanyakumari , NH 47 from Salem via Coimbatore to Kochi

East-West Corridor (length: 3300 km): NH 8B between Porbandar and Rajkot , NH 8A between Rajkot and Samakhiali , NH 15 between Samkhiali and Radhanpur , NH 14 between Radhanpur and Pindwara , NH 76 between Pindwara and Shivpuri , NH 25 between Shivpuri and Lucknow , NH 28 between Lucknow and Muzaffarpur , NH 57 between Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga Purnia , NH 31 between Purnia and Galgalia , NH 31C between Galgalia and Bijni , NH 31 between Bijni and Guwahati , NH 37 between Guwahati and Nagaon , NH 36 between Nagaon and Dabaka , NH 54 between Dabaka and Silchar

In April 2010, the Indian government issued a new system for national highway numbers. With the implementation of this new system, the connection of the north-south corridor from Srinagar to Kanyakumari will become the new National Highway 44.

Common routes and connections of the trunk road systems

The following are the common routes of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) National Highway Project and the NS-OW Corridor:

• The Delhi-Agra route is part of the GQ and the Nazi corridor.
• The Bangalore- Krishnagiri route is part of the GQ and the NS corridor.

• The Sikandara-Kanpur route is part of the GQ and OW corridor.
• The Udaipur-Chittorgargh route is part of the GQ and OW corridor.

• The Salem-Coimbatore-Kochi line is a North-South Corridor Extension of the North-South Corridor.

• The north-south and east-west corridors meet in Jhansi.

North-South Corridor (States and Places of Interest) (North to South)

East-West Corridor (States and Places of Interest) (West to East)

Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar Vaishno Devi Jammu Punjab Pathankot Jalandhar Ludhiana Khanna Haryana Ambala Kurukshetra Karnal Panipat Sonipat Delhi Uttar Pradesh Mathura Agra Jhansi Lalitpur Madhya Pradesh Gwalior Sagar Lachnadon Seoni Maharashtra Nagpur Andhra Pradesh Adilabad Secunderabad Hyderabad Mahbubnagar Kurnool Anantapur Karnataka Bangalore Tamil Nadu Salem Erode Coimbatore Karur Dindigul Madurai Virudhunagar Tirunelveli Kanyakumari Kerala Palakkad Thrissure Kochi

Gujarat Porbandar Rajkot Samakhiali Rajasthan Mount Abu Udaipur Chittorgarh Kota Madhya Pradesh Shivpuri Uttar Pradesh Jhansi Sikandara Kanpur Lucknow Ayodhya Gorakhpur Bihar Muzaffarpur Darbhanga Purnia West Bengal Islampur Siliguri Assam Dispur Dabaka Lumding Silchar

completion

As of June 2018, both routes were completed with a few exceptions.

proof

1. ↑ Ministry of Road Transport and Highways : Rationalization of Numbering System of National Highways (PDF; 3.4 MB)

Web links

• National Highways Agency of India details of the north-south corridor
• National Highways Agency of India details of the east-west corridor
• National Highways Agency of India Homepage