The entire Golden Quadrilateral Project including the recently taken up 10,000 km length would be completed by the year 2007, B C Khanduri, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways told media persons.

The government had originally proposed to take up a total of four lane highways of 14,500 kms with Rs 60, 000 crores (Rs 600 billion), but recently the government had decided to extend this project for another 10,000 km with an additional investment of Rs 40 crores (Rs 400 million). The whole project would be completed by 2007, the minister revealed.

Around 90 per cent of the initially proposed 14,500 km four lane highway work will be executed by the end of 2004, the minister added.

Except for a few stretches of Mumbai- Chennai and New Delhi-Kolkata sections of the Golden Quadrilateral, the project would be completed by December 2004, he added.