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National Highway connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata is named as?
A. Locomotives
B. Gauge
C. Golden Quadrilateral
D. Dock
E. None of these

Answer
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Hint:
The National highways are an organization of trunk streets claimed by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The National Highways Authority of India is the nodal office. It is answerable for building, redesigning, and keeping up the majority of the National Highways organization.

Complete answer:
The Golden Quadrilateral is a national highway. It associates a large portion of the major mechanical, agricultural and social focuses of India. It frames a quadrilateral. It associates the four significant metro urban communities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south).

At 5,846 kilometers (3,633 mi), it is the biggest roadway venture in India and the fifth longest in the world. It is the principal period of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and comprises four-and six-path express expressways, worked at an expense of ₹600 billion (US$8.4 billion). The venture was arranged in 1999, dispatched in 2001, and was finished in 2012.

NHAI by far most of the framework isn't access controlled, despite the fact that security highlights, for example, guardrails, shoulders, and high-perceivability signs are being used. Foundation Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) has been one of the significant supporters of the infrastructural advancement movement in the GQ venture.

Only National Highways are in the Golden Quadrilateral are:
- Delhi – Kolkata i.e. NH 44 from Delhi to Agra
- Delhi - NH 19 i.e. from Agra to Kolkata
- Delhi – Mumbai – Chennai i.e. NH 48
- Kolkata – Chennai i.e. NH 16

Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Note:
 The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is the main controlled-access expressway to be inherent India. It is a piece of the Golden Quadrilateral Project however not subsidized by NHAI, and is discrete from the old Mumbai - Pune part of National Highway 48 (India).