Question

Which four major ports of India lie on the Golden Quadrilateral?
a. Chennai, Tuticorin, Mangalore, Marmagao
b. Kolkata, Chennai, Mangalore, Mumbai
c. Marmagao, Mumbai, kandla, Mangalore
d. Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam, Chennai

Answer 1

Hint:
The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is a public expressway network associating the greater part of the major mechanical, horticultural and social focuses of India. The primary target of these super expressways is to lessen the separation and time between the four uber urban communities of India.

Complete solution:
The north-south and east-west passageway is the biggest roadway venture. The primary point of this task is to associate all the passageways of India which structures quadrilateral and thus the name Golden Quadrilateral. It associates Srinagar in the north, Kanyakumari in the south, Porbandar of Gujarat in the west and Silchar of Assam in the east. The four significant ports of India that lie on the Golden Quadrilateral are Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Chennai. The Golden Quadrilateral venture is overseen by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. By far most of the framework isn’t access controlled, despite the fact that wellbeing highlights, for example, guardrails, shoulders, and high-perceivability signs are being used. The Mumbai–Pune Expressway, the primary controlled-access expressway to be implicit India, is a piece of the GQ Project however not subsidized by NHAI, and is discrete from the old Mumbai – Pune part of National Highway 48 (India). Foundation Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) has been one of the significant supporters of the infrastructural advancement action in the GQ venture. Head administrator Atal Bihari Vajpayee established the framework stone for the undertaking on 6 January 1999. It was wanted to be finished by 2006, yet there were delays because of land obtaining imperatives and questions with contractual workers which must be renegotiated. In January 2012, India declared the four-path GQ interstate organization as complete. IN September 2009, it was reported that the current four-laned thruways would be changed over into six-path highways. Sections of NH 2, NH 4, NH 5 and NH 8 were organized for enlarging to six paths under DBFO (Design, Build, Finance, Operate) example and more segments would be six-laned later on. On NH 8 six-path work was finished from Vadodara to Surat.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
The Golden Quadrilateral task is overseen by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. By far most of the framework isn’t access controlled, in spite of the fact that wellbeing highlights, for example, guardrails, shoulders, and high-perceivability signs are being used.