The East-West corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral connects which of the following centers (nodes) ?

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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.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) 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 is a Gujarat port and Tinsukia is in eastern Assam, but neither is a terminus of the East-West Corridor.  (d) Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Jamnagar (Gujarat) are not the corridor's end-points.

Concept: 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).

State PCS 2019 Q50 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q50 — Geography PYQ with Answer