Previous Year Question
With reference to India’s projects on connectivity, consider the following statements:
East-West Corridor under Golden Quadrilateral Project connects Dibrugarh and Surat.
Trilateral Highway connects Moreh in Manipur and Chiang Mai in Thailand via Myanmar.
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor connects Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with Kunming in China.
How many of the above statements are correct?
Only one
Only two
All three
None
Correct Answer: D
Detailed Solution
Statement 1 is incorrect.
The East-West Corridor is not the Golden Quadrilateral; it belongs to the North-South and East-West Corridor component of the National Highways Development Project.
The Golden Quadrilateral connects Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
The actual terminal points of the East-West Corridor are Silchar in Assam and Porbandar in Gujarat.
Therefore, both Dibrugarh and Surat, given as the terminal points, are incorrect.
Statement 2 is incorrect.
The India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway was conceived to connect Moreh in Manipur with Mae Sot in Thailand through Myanmar.
Its terminal point in Thailand is Mae Sot, not Chiang Mai.
Statement 3 is incorrect.
The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor was conceived to connect Kolkata in India with Kunming in China.
Its connectivity region includes important centres in Bangladesh and Myanmar, such as Dhaka, Chittagong, Mandalay and Yangon.
Its Indian terminal point is Kolkata, not Varanasi.
Therefore, all three statements are incorrect and the correct answer is None.