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Which highway sector is common to both the Golden Quadrilateral Highway and the North-South Corridor Highway?
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- Agra-Jhansi
- Bangalore-Krishnagiri
- Delhi-Jaipur
- Coimbatore-Salem
Correct Option: B
The North-South–East-West Corridor (NS-EW) is the largest ongoing highway project in India. It is the second phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 7300 kilometers of four/six lane expressways connecting Srinagar, Kanyakumari, Porbandar and Silchar, at a cost of US$12.317 billion. North–South Corridor (4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi)): NH 1A (Srinagar–Jalandhar), NH 1 (Jalandhar – Delhi), NH 2 (Delhi–Agra), NH 3 (Agra–Gwalior), NH 75 (Gwalior–Jhansi), NH 26 (Jhansi–Lakhnadon), NH 7 (Lakhnadon–Nagpur-HyderabadBangalore-Madurai-Kanyakumari), NH 47 (Salem– Coimbatore–Kochi). The following four stretches are common between the Golden Quadrilateral and the NS-EW Corridors: (a) Delhi–Agra: Golden Quadrilateral & North–South Corridor; (b) Bangalore–Krishnagiri: Golden Quadrilateral & North–South Corridor; (c) Akbarpur–Kanpur: Golden Quadrilateral & East– West Corridor; (d) Udaipur–Chittorgarh: Golden Quadrilateral & East–West Corridor.