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Reply: The details of the new National Permit Scheme which is in operation since 2010 can be obtained from the following website http://morth.nic.in/.

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What are the stages of the seven-phase National Highways Development Projects (NHDP) that was launched in 1998, and which phases have been concluded?

Reply:

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   Phase I mainly involves widening (to four lanes) and upgrading of 7,498 km of the national highway network and has four component packages:
   

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   Highway network linking the four metropolitan cities in India i.e. Delhi Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata, covering a length of 5,846 km, popularly known as the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project;
   
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   Highways along the North-South (NS) and East-West (EW) corridors, covering a length of 981 km;
   
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