Access-controlled Expressways - Odisha kind of sidelined

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See the thread https://odishadev.odishasociety.org/thre...t-532.html . While the initial list at https://archive.pib.gov.in/documents/rli...102503.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatmala seems positive for Odisha, in terms of ground development of access-controlled expressways, Odisha is no where. This is really alarming as in 5 years when all the various access-controlled expressways come up with very little in Odisha, manufacturing companies will hesitate to set shop in Odisha as transporting without access-controlled expressways will be slower in odisha.

In a perverse way the GQ passing through coastal Odisha seems to be working against Odisha in that the central government prefers access controlled expressways to be mostly greenfield as it is cheaper and faster than broadening existing national highways to access controlled expressways. The reasons it is expensive to broaden existing national highways to access controlled expressways are:

• acquiring additional land is expensive. (land adjacent to existing NH is expensive)
  
  
• since existing NH can not be closed, constructing additional lanes, interchanges etc. is time consuming.
  

Because of this most of the access-controlled expressways that are being constructed consists mostly of greenfield components. 



This is explained nicely in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckBW7Ob...pOnDriving 



Odisha needs to keep this in mind and propose and push some access-controlled expressways with mostly greenfield components. Following are some suggestions.

• Hyderabad - Koraput - Dhenakanal (close to Bhubaneswar outer ring road) - Baripada - Kolkata
  
  
• Bhubaneswar outer ring road 
  
  
• Sambalpur - Varanasi
  
  
• Paradeep - Ranchi
  

Following maps show the current status of Access-controlled Expressway construction in India.

From https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi...526921.cms





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