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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 first attempt to prepare a co-ordinated road development programme
in a planned manner.
- The roads were divided into four classes:
- National highways which would pass through states, and places having
national importance for strategic, administrative and other purposes.
- State highways which would be the other main roads of a state.
- District roads which would take traffic from the main roads to the
interior of the district .
According to the importance, some are considered as major district roads
and the remaining as other district roads.
- Village roads which would link the villages 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
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