With reference to India's projects on connectivity, consider the following statements:
- 1.East-West Corridor under Golden Quadrilateral Project connects Dibrugarh and Surat.
- 2.Trilateral Highway connects Moreh in Manipur and Chiang Mai in Thailand via Myanmar.
- 3.Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor connects Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with Kunming in China.
How many of the above statements are correct?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) None
Every statement has a wrong end-point or a wrong project name. The East-West Corridor runs from Silchar to Porbandar and is separate from the Golden Quadrilateral, the Trilateral Highway runs from Moreh to Mae Sot in Thailand, and the BCIM corridor was planned from Kolkata to Kunming.
- ✗ 1. The East-West Corridor links Silchar in Assam with Porbandar in Gujarat (about 3,640 km). It belongs to the North-South and East-West corridor programme, not to the Golden Quadrilateral, which joins Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
- ✗ 2. PIB states that the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway aims to connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, not Chiang Mai.
- ✗ 3. The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor was conceived to link Kolkata with Kunming in Yunnan through Bangladesh and Myanmar; Varanasi is not on it.
Remember · East-West Corridor: Silchar–Porbandar; North-South: Srinagar–Kanniyakumari. Trilateral Highway: Moreh–Mae Sot. BCIM: Kolkata–Kunming.
📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 India: People and Economy, Ch 7 (practise this chapter)
Sources
- NCERT Class 12 · India: People and Economy, Chapter 7 “The East-West Corridor has been planned to connect Silchar in Assam with the port town of Porbandar in Gujarat with 3,640-km of road length.”
- PIB: Ashtalakshmi, the North-East at the Heart of India's Act East Policy ↗ “The India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway is a flagship project under this framework. It aims to connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 1 Oct 2026 (how we verify). ·