This highway is located in India; it is the longest highway in the country and the fifth longest in the world. Thanks to the construction of the Golden Quadrilateral highway, the cities of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai, among others, are now connected.
The The length of the highway is 5,846 kilometers and has 4 or 6 lanes. The construction brought numerous benefits, such as improving connections between the country's major agricultural, cultural, and industrial centers and contributing to India's economic growth.
The design of this highway, which has been the the largest project of its kind ever undertaken in this country and for which planning was completed in 1999; construction began in 2001 and was completed in 2012. The project cost 600,000 million Indian rupees, which is equivalent to about 9.09 billion dollars, approximately.
The construction of the highway was managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is responsible for most of the country's highways.
