Transformation of Mumbai-Goa National Highway NH-66

Maharashtra is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area. Improvement of infrastructure facilities including the road network, as basic requirement for the economic development of the Nation, has assumed priority position over other developmental activities. National Highway-66 passing through Konkan commonly referred to as Mumbai-Goa NH 66 (erstwhile NH-17) is an important National Highway that runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to the Western Ghats. It connects Panvel (a city south of Mumbai) to Kanyakumari, passing through the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The existing carriageway is having two lane wide configurations with poor to fair road geometrics. The maximum length of the Project Road passes through hilly terrain and a few places passes through plain and rolling terrain. The road passes through urban area/villages and ghat portion and has reported number of road accidents. Transportation by heavy vehicles has become very difficult due to number of sharp hair pin bends with steep gradient causing frequent traffic jams. Considering above all aspects, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India has sanctioned Rs.11489.14 crores for transformation of NH-66 under the scheme known as NHDP-IV. PWD in state of Maharashtra has accepted the challenge of supervisory construction at the request of the NHAI. For execution of this prestigious project PWD, Maharashtra is an executing agency. The NH-66 with stretch of 366 km from Indapur in District Raigad to Zarap in district Sindhudurg is now transforming and is undergoing a major change from 2-lane flexible pavement to 4-lane rigid pavements along with the service road in the urban areas. The DPR Consultants appointed carried out detailed the topographic/engineering survey and studied the satellite imageries of the project area and other available relevant information collected for the existing and possible realignment alternatives wherever necessary. The entire existing alignment has been studied in details and salient features such as engineering aspects, social and environmental aspects and project cost has been worked out. For better administrative control the entire length of 366 km is divided into ten different packages.

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• Authors:
  • Joshi, C P
  • Nawle, Vivek C
• Publication Date: 2019-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 11-15
• Serial:
  • Indian Highways
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Indian Roads Congress
  • ISSN: 0376-7256

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alignment; Case studies; Geometric design; Highways; Improvements; Road construction
• Identifier Terms: National Highway 66 (India)
• Geographic Terms: Goa (India); Mumbai (India)
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01717549
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 19 2019 3:07PM