GOVERNMENT OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:3216 ANSWERED ON:12.03.2003 CONVERSION OF STATE HIGHWAYS INTO NATIONAL HIGHWAYS P.D. ELANGOVAN

Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government have plans to convert more State Highways into National Highways in the coming years;

(b) if so, the details thereof including the State Highways that have already been converted into National Highways in the last five years in , location-wise and the expenditure incurred on the same; and

(c) the details of the expenditure incurred for the conversion and maintenance of State Highways into National Highways in the country , State-wise, Year-wise in each of the last three years? Answer

THE MINISTER OFS TATE O F THE MINISTRY OFR OAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS (MAJOR GENERAL (RETD.) B.C. KHANDURI)

(a) Presently there is a ban on declaration of new National Highways due to fund constraints. The Government may, however, consider conversion of very limited length of a new State Highways into National Highways during the course of the 10th Five Year Plan, keeping in view the traffic needs, inter-se priority and availability of funds, after the ban is lifted.

(b) The details of State roads converted into National Highways during last 5 years in Tamil Nadu are at Annex I.T he allocation of funds is not done National Highway-wise but State-wise. During last 5 years an expenditure of Rs. 288.93 crore was incurred for development works on National Highways in Tamil Nadu

(c) The State-wise and year-wise details of expenditure incurred for development and maintenance of National Highways during the last three years in Tamil Nadu are at Annex-II.

ANNEX - I

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NOF. 3O2R1 6A NSWER ON 12.03.2003 ASKED BY SHRI P.D. ELANGOVAN REGARDING CONVERSION OF STATE HIGHWAYS INTO NATIONAL HIGHWAYS DETAILS OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS DECLARED DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN TAMIL NADU Sl No. NH NO. Route Length (in Km)

1 45A Extn -Chidambaram- 130 2 45B Trichy--Tuticorin 257 3 66 Pondicherry--Gingee- 234 4 67 Nagapattinam-Trichy- 217 5 67 Extn Karur-Coimbtore 140 6 68 Ullundrupet-Salem 134 7 205 Ananthapur-Tirupatti- 82 8 207 -Sarjapur-Devanhalli-Nelamangala 20 9 208 Kollam--Thirumanglam 125 10 209 -Coimbartore-Annur-Kollegal- 286 11 210 Trichy-Pudukottai-Ramathapuram 160 12 219 Madnapalli-Kuppam-Krishagiri 22 13 220 Kollam-Teni 55

Total 1862

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NOF. 3O2R1 6A NSWER ON 12.03.2003 ASKED BY SHRI P.D. ELANGOVAN REGARDING CONVERSION OF STATE HIGHWAYS INTO NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

STATE-WISE DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE INCURRED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS

(Rs. IN CRORES)

Sl. No. NAME OF STATES/UTS Development Maintenance

1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02

1 ANDHRA PRADESH 37.37 107.93 94.56 50.68 50.98 40.16 2 ASSAM 27.70 48.74 74.90 30.68 37.57 39.90 3 BIHAR 59.50 60.15 49.15 90.59 55.93 37.87 4 CHANDIGARH 0.74 1.40 1.45 1.18 0.28 0.10 5 CHHATISGARH 4.72 32.28 9.35 24.20 6 DELHI 4.22 4.83 4.82 1.33 0.82 0.00 7 GOA 16.70 21.38 19.75 10.49 5.62 3.69 8 GUJARAT 86.83 86.75 53.97 36.61 21.83 21.70 9 HARYANA 90.45 92.52 103.88 15.45 14.67 17.40 10 HIMACHAL PRADESH 35.03 38.93 44.16 24.28 33.51 18.85 11 JAMMU & KASHMIR 0.91 0.52 2.23 0.24 0.83 0.31 12 JHARKHAND 11.89 26.70 7.75 17.45 13 KARNATAKA 68.46 75.54 106.07 68.16 45.84 40.40 14 KERALA 108.09 43.91 82.25 47.69 33.31 35.72 15 MADHYA PRADESH 115.47 126.50 92.42 53.03 85.07 53.58 16 MAHARASHTRA 166.62 196.32 172.33 85.29 42.95 60.41 17 MANIPUR 8.95 5.35 10.47 5.85 6.88 7.55 18 MEGHALAYA 13.73 15.63 16.84 8.15 8.75 10.37 19 MIZORAM 2.83 9.95 21.67 5.38 7.53 3.48 20 NAGALAND 8.86 14.90 14.97 10.22 3.61 3.46 21 ORISSA 91.98 84.96 56.67 47.13 41.50 46.59 22 PONDICHERRY 2.81 1.47 1.99 1.52 1.23 0.81 23 PUNJAB 42.33 38.55 58.66 4.69 15.37 17.12 24 RAJASTHAN 43.12 84.03 83.68 63.37 38.78 42.94 25 TAMILNADU 53.48 82.64 96.79 53.83 50.47 35.24 26 TRIPURA 0.24 27 UTTAR PRADESH 117.76 139.39 133.69 101.19 55.94 53.46 28 UTTRANCHAL 1.24 21.02 0.00 4.09 8.15 29 WEST BENGAL 80.73 109.83 77.86 47.57 22.95 42.92