The East-West corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral connects which of the following centers (nodes) ?
- (a)Silchar and Porbander
- (b)Guwahati and Ahmedabad
- (c)Kandla and Tinsukia
- (d)Itanagar and Jamnagar
Correct — A, Silchar and Porbandar (the booklet prints 'Porbander'). The East-West Corridor runs about 3,300 km from Silchar in Assam in the east to Porbandar in Gujarat in the west, crossing the country under the National Highways Development Project. (Strictly, the East-West and North-South Corridors form NHDP Phase-II and are separate from the Golden Quadrilateral proper, which links Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata; the paper groups them together.) The paired termini are Silchar and Porbandar.
- (b)Guwahati and Ahmedabad — Both cities lie broadly along the route, but they are not the designated end-nodes; the corridor's termini are Silchar (Assam) and Porbandar (Gujarat).
- (c)Kandla and Tinsukia — Kandla is a Gujarat port and Tinsukia is in eastern Assam, but neither is a terminus of the East-West Corridor.
- (d)Itanagar and Jamnagar — Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Jamnagar (Gujarat) are not the corridor's end-points.
The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) has two big planks: the Golden Quadrilateral, joining Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata; and, under Phase-II, two long corridors that cut across it — the North-South Corridor (Srinagar to Kanyakumari) and the East-West Corridor (Silchar to Porbandar).
Remember the two corridors by their end-points: North-South = Srinagar to Kanyakumari; East-West = Silchar to Porbandar. The distractors swap in nearby but non-terminal cities, so pin the exact termini.
- East-West Corridor: Silchar (Assam) to Porbandar (Gujarat), about 3,300 km.
- North-South Corridor: Srinagar (J&K) to Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu).
- Both corridors belong to NHDP Phase-II, distinct from the Golden Quadrilateral (Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata).
- Porbandar in Gujarat is also the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Treating the East-West / North-South corridors as parts of the Golden Quadrilateral itself
- Swapping the termini — e.g. naming Guwahati or Kandla instead of Silchar / Porbandar
MPPSC and UPSC ask for the end-points of the corridors or the cities on the Golden Quadrilateral — lock the pairs Silchar-Porbandar (E-W) and Srinagar-Kanyakumari (N-S).
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The North-South Corridor of the NHDP connects which two centres?
- (a)Srinagar and Kanyakumari
- (b)Delhi and Chennai
- (c)Silchar and Porbandar
- (d)Amritsar and Kochi
Answer(a) Srinagar and Kanyakumari — the North-South Corridor runs the length of the country.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The four metropolitan cities joined by the Golden Quadrilateral are:
- (a)Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata
- (b)Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata
- (c)Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi
- (d)Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur and Chennai
Answer(a) Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.