The National Highways Authority of India initiated the National Highway Development Program (the 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 for the program. The program upgraded into four lanes the following highway corridors: (i) corridor connecting the major metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata—known as the golden quadrilateral; (ii) north–south corridor connecting Srinagar to Kanyakumari (4,000 km); and (iii) east–west corridor that connects Silchar to Porbandar (3,300 km).
This report validates the completion report’s assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Successful