The overall progress of NHDP as on March 2007 is as under:

NHDP Component	Total Length	Completed Four Lane	Under implementation		Balance for award of civil works
			Length Km	No. of contracts
GQ	5846	5556	290	33	----
NS-EW	7300+	1129	5149	147	860
Port connectivity	380	148	211	7	21
Other NHs	945	287	638	16	20
NHDP –IIIA	4815	30	1767	27	3018
NHDP-V	6500	----	148	2	6352
Total	25786	7150	8203	232	10271

+Out of 7300 kms, 981 kms length is in Phase-I and remaining length is in Phase-II. Against 981 kms, 853 kms length was 4 laned and 354 kms against phase-II including up to DBM level. Actual length at resent excluding 442 kms common length with GQ is 7,274 km. However, this may again change after preparation of DPRs. The original approved length of corridors is 7,300 kms

The Way Ahead

The Government has formulated an ambitious plan for investment of Rs.2,35,430 crore for upgradation of National Highways under various phases of NHDP in a phased manner in the years to come. The details of this plan are as under:-

Sl. No.	Phase	Name of Project	Likely Cost (in Rs. Crore)
1.	NHDP Phase-I & II	Completion of Balance work of GQ and EW-NS corridors	52,434
2.	NHDP Phase-III	4-laning of 12,109 km	80,626
3.	NHDP Phase-IV	2-laning with paved shoulders of 20,000 km of National Highways	27,800
4.	NHDP Phase-V	6-laning of 6,500 km of selected stretches of National Highways	41,210
5.	NHDP Phase-VI	Development of 1000 km of Expressways	16,680
6.	NHDP Phase-VII	Construction of ring roads, flyovers and bypasses on selected stretches	16,680
		Total	2,35,430

Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North-East Region (SARDP-NE)

This programme has been framed for improving road connectivity to remote places and places of strategic importance in NE region, envisages improvement of about 3,228 kms of National Highways, about 4,388 kms of State Roads and Roads of Strategic Importance. This will also ensure the connectivity of all district headquarters, which are still not connected to the National Highways in the eight North-Eastern States.

SARDP-NE includes the projects on the PPP mode and the projects with 603 km length having the estimated cost of about Rs. 3,618 crores have been identified on the BOT(Annuity) mode.