Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing to take India on its biggest road trip. Borrowing from his predecessor and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Modi hopes to transform India through roads.In 1999, Vajpayee laid the foundation for the Golden Quadrilateral Highway project, which would link four major cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. It was India’s longest road project. “The highways we are building under the National Highways Development Project are not mere highways. With these highways, we are writing a new destiny of India,” Vajpayee had said at that time with his quintessential rhetorical flourish.

Source: Economic Times October 26, 2017 08:34 UTC