Returned last week to God's country.
There is a site on NHDP - you may go there through the ministry of road transport site. There is a map there too.
Well, NH 36 is old - but the NH 54 is either new or needs construction. Actually, part of NH 54 might be on the existing "alternative" road to Silchar from Shillong via NC Hills (thru Garampani) that branches off NH 44 just after Jowai. (I may be wrong here.) And yes, I am doubtful about the four lane bit. Not necessary at this stage, to my view. As long as it is 4 lanes from Guwahati onwards.
One interesting fact is that the nature of terrain on which these highways lie, make it much easier to make them "toll highways" than in the rest of India. Though these roads pass through villages and rural hamlets, there are hardly any alternative routes to which drivers can escape in order to avoid paying toll. That ought to be an incentive to road construction.
Santanu-da.
Saurav Pathak wrote:
santanu-da:
nice to hear from you after a long time. are you back in florida?
i am trying to get the mot map you are referring to. is it the main
map at the nhai site? it is impossible to make out anything from it.
i remember going to diphu once, through the naambor forest. beyond
that, doesnt it get as hilly, and un-4laneable?
saurav
Santanu Roy said on AssamNet:
+ As I understand it, the Guwahati-Silchar stretch of the NHDP East-West + corridor does not use the familiar Jowai-Badarpur road (NH44) which, I + agree, is in pretty good shape but will require a major technological + marvel to be transformed into a four lane highway. In fact, the route + probably doesn't even touch Meghalaya. Its mostly Assam. From the MOT + map it appears to branch off from NH 37 (the Goalpara - Guwahati - + Jorabat - Kamargaon - Makum - Saikhoaghat road - with an added Guwahati + bypass) to NH 36 (the Manipur road from Nowgong to Dimapur) to NH 54 + (the Lumding-Silchar-Aizawl road). I don't know exactly where the + branch-offs are - can't make out from the map. I might be able to give + you the exact route next week - after I talk to my father.
+ + It is fairly unlikely that the veteran Conggress MP Rana Deb had + anything to do with this. The project was born out of the BJP + government's hat. The strong BJP presence in Barak Valley may be an + explanatory variable - though anyone travelling through that part of the + world will recognize how much worse the general state of infrastructure + is out there compared even to Brahmaputra valley.
+ + Santanu.
+ +
