Geographical analysis

Department of Geography & GIS

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Geographical analysis

Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 59-64

Original Article

GOLDEN QUADRILATERAL HIGHWAY STRETCH BETWEEN BANGALORE AND TUMKUR CITIES: A STUDY IN HIGHWAY RELATED TERTIARY ACTIVITIES

Abstract

In the year 1999-2000, Golden Quadrilateral Highway Project was executed, connecting National capital Delhi with Kolkata-Chennai-Bangalore-Pune-Mumbai via Indore-Agra-Delhi. This four lane National Highway was one of the major project conceived by Government of India to promote economic liberalization and globalization. The present study deals with Highway related tertiary activities between Bangalore and Tumkur cities of Golden Quadrilateral Highway stretch. The important objectives of the present study are : To understand the development of different tertiary activities along Golden Quadrilateral stretch in the study area. To understand the role of tertiary activities to providing services to passengers. Present investigation would like to look into the potential changes in development of tertiary activities in year to come owing to increased accessibility by the Golden Quadrilateral highway in Karnataka.

Keywords: Golden quadrilateral highway, Tertiary activity.

Copyright

© 2014 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka

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