Nagpur road congress

The Second World War saw a rapid growth in road traffic and this led to the deterioration in the condition of roads. To discuss about improving the condition of roads, the government convened a conference of chief engineers of provinces at Nagpur in 1943. The result of the conference is famous as the Nagpur plan.

A twenty year development programme for the period (1943-1963) was finalized. It was the 1st attempt to prepare a co-ordinated road development programme in a planned manner.

The roads were divided into four classes:

➤National Highways which are pass through states and places having national importance for strategic administrative and other purposes.

              

➤State highways which are be the other main roads of a state.

➤District roads which are take traffic from the main roads to the interior of the district. According to importance, some are considered as major district roads and the remaining as other district road.

➤Village roads which are link the village to the road system.

The committee planned to construct 2 lakh kms of road across the country within 20 years.

They recommended the construction of star and grid pattern of roads throughout the country.

One of the objective was that the road length should be increased so as to give a road density of 16kms per 100 sq.km