char dham express

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Char Dham National Highway 
Development Programme :

After the natural calamity in Uttarakhand, the roads to the Char Dham were in a bad condition. Despite being  the spiritual heart of India, these roads had not been  developed until four years ago. The route would remain  
cut o¢ at many places during the rainy season due to heavylandslides.Integrateddevelopment of the Char Dham has been  planned as a solution to these challenges. Projects  
spanning 900 km of National Highways worth Rs. 12,000 Cr are being developed to bring safe, all weather  connectivity to the region. The new highways will be 2  laned with paved shoulders and a minimum width of 10 m.
To ensure safety and comfort of travellers in
the Char Dham, the following provisions are
being made:

16 Bypasses
2 Tunnels
25 Major bridges
39 Landslide
Mitigative projects
3 Viaducts
18 Wayside amenities
154 Bus stands / Bus-
bays/truck laybys

• On completion of the Char Dham project,
Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath
will be safely connected to Rishikesh

• 37 projects of 633 km length, worth Rs. 8,500 Cr have been sanctioned till date 

• The project will be completed in 2019

Kailash Mansarovar Road :


Road development is underway to connect
Uttarakhand to Kailash Mansarovar, which falls
in the Pithoragarh-Tanakpur section. Road
development is di¬cult on these terrains, where
temperatures drop to -25o C in winter. Road
construction equipment have been brought in
from abroad, to cut through hard mountains in
the coldest of areas. This has accelerated the
construction process
The 75.54 km Ghatiabagarh-Lipulekh road (G.S.
Road with BRO) is a part of the Mansarovar Yatra
route. On completion the road will directly connect
Kailash to Devbhoomi.
At a glance
Work is in progress from Ghatiabagarh and Air
Force maintained detachment at Gunji
(45 km) on this road
Connectivity has been achieved up to 62 km
towards Lipulekh and up to 29 km towards
Ghatiabagarh side

Kashipur – Sitarganj Section :

The 4 laning of Kashipur-Sitarganj section of NH
74, under NHAI, has been provisionally completed
in August 2017 on BOT (Toll) mode and is under
tolling for 65.745 km. The project is likely to be
completed by March 2019.
At a glance
77.20 km total (design) length
Rs. 757.41 Cr total project cost

Sitarganj-Tanakpur Section :

The 2 laning of Sitarganj-Tanakpur Section on NH-125 with paved shoulder being executed under NHAI on  EPC mode has beenprovisionally completed in March  
2017. The project will be completed by June 2018.

At a glance :
52.20 km total (design) length
Rs. 243.11 Cr total project cost

Rampur – Kathgodam Section :

4-laning of Rampur – Kathgodam Stretch of NH-87 is

under progress in the following 2 packages:

(i)     Rampur – Rudrapur section in UttarPradesh 43.446 km total length 
Rs. 572.74 Cr total (Bid) cost The project was awarded on 31st March 2016 on Hybrid  
Annuity Mode. Appointed date for the project was declared as 31st March 2017. Work is in progress. 11 km  is complete as on May, 2018. The project is scheduled  for completion by March, 2019.
(ii) Rudrapur Kathgodam in Uttarakhand
The project was awarded on 31st March 2016 on Hybrid Annuity Mode at Bid Project cost 526.26 Cr. The  Appointed Date for the project was declared on 28th  Oct 2017. Work is in progress. The project is scheduled  for completion by October, 2019. Haridwar Ring Road 5 RFPs for DPR preparation for the construction of  Haridwar Ring Road have been received on 12th June  2018. The proposals are under evaluation. The tentative  
length of bypass is about 50 km. The DPR is scheduled to be completed in 10 months. The bidding process for  construction of the bypass will start in March, 2019.

More about the Chardham Project
The whole project is estimated to cost Rs 12,000 crores. :

The BRO has been given the task of constructing 250 kilometres of national highway which is leading to the shrines of Gangotri and Badrinath.

Majority of the work on these projects are on track and are expected to be completed by October 2020

Majority of the works are progressing ahead of schedule and five projects are slated for completion by Oct 2020.

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