World Bank provide its financial assistance for developing the Uttar Pradesh Core Road Network Development Project (UPCRNDP) – hereinafter referred as “the Project”. Although National Highways are an integral and significant part of Core Road Network, their widening/strengthening and maintenance activities are carried out through the resources of the Government of India (GoI). Therefore the entire 7,550 km length of National Highways within the state has not been included in the UPCRNDP. Instead the project will focus on remaining part of the CRN.

The state has approximately a road network of 3, 00,000 km, out of which 173,000 km is under the Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD). The roads under PWD comprise 7,550 km of National Highways (NHs), 7,530 km of State Highways (SHs), 7,544 km of Major District Roads (MDRs), 39,245 km of Other District Roads (ODRs) and 118,166 km of Village Roads. Only about 60% of SHs are double lane. In the entire state, 62% of MDRs and 83% of ODRs have widths less than 7 m.