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Golden Quadrilateral Project - Coggle Diagram
Golden Quadrilateral Project
What is it?
Connecting the metro cities
North South and East West Corridors
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Economic Background
Lack of investment within India since 1970s
Most focus was on agriculture
Industry was mainly intended for domestic consumption
Economic model of Japan was being adopted by East Asian Tigers
China too was opening up in 1980s
Our principle socialist sponsor USSR was declining
IT was trying to address global demand
We needed to shift our economic model - Agrarian + Socialist Industry to Trade driven with Privatised Industry tackling global demand
There was no infrastructure - delays and bottlenecks were the norm
Indian Infra focus was on Railways
Problem with last mile
Roads were maintained but no focus on development
Lack of capacity at Airports (people movement) and ports (goods movement)
The conception
Inspiration from US Inter-state highway network
hinterland development -
Investment in States
Economic-multiplier effect of Construction is very high
National Integration
Central government right of way - for power lines, data lines etc.
Nitin Gadkari had used road development as Mah PWD minister 1996-99