Lucknow-Muzaffarpur National Highway Project

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The Lucknow Muzaffarpur National Highway Project aims at developing, for the benefit of users, improved transportation access. The performance indicators and targets to measure the achievements are: vehicle travel time along the project road to be reduced by at least 20 per cent; truck operating costs along the project road to be reduced by at least 10 per cent; number of fatal road accidents along the project road to be reduced by 10 per cent; and, user satisfaction with national highways in the region to be improved. The project has only one component - highway upgrading - the rationale being that existing projects already provide sufficient funding for the technical assistance, and piloting of new road management approaches necessary to build capacity in this area. The component contributes to removing the capacity constraints on the National Highway (NH) network, by upgrading to a four-lane divided carriageway standard of 483 km within NH28, between Lucknow and Muzaffarpur. Associated environmental management actions will be financed, including delivery of entitlements under a Resettlement Action Plan to project affected people, and, ancillary activities such as afforestation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as road safety, and HIV awareness programs. Furthermore, construction supervision, by four teams of internationally recruited consultants, will also be financed.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Transportation

World Bank Group

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Road, Raw Materials, Government, Automotive