Whoever voted Madhya Pradesh...absolutely right. The poorer neighbour Chattisgarh is a symbol of a weak state doing the best. Its roads are very good. Anyone travelling to Amarkantak from Bilaspur would vouch for that. Three quarters of the route lies within Chattisgarh and passes through real Kipling jungle (Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book was inspired by these forests) and hills and yet the roads are smooth as a baby's kiss. The last 20 Km is a back breaking affair as you enter Madhya Pradesh.
Interestingly for geographic as well as political reasons, Amarkantak provisionally within MP, is a disputed region on the borders of MP and Chattisgarh, with each claiming it. Parts of Amarkantak are in CG and the rest in MP. Amarkantak is the source of the mighty river Narmada and the source point is within Chattisgarh (so is the source of river Sone, a few miles away). But the bus station and most of the village of Amarkantak including Uma Bharti's Guru's ashram fall within MP.
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Best / Worst Roads In India
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 03:00 PM
I've still not forgiven Uma Bharti for renaging on her promise that all of MPs roads would be fixed withing 100 hundred days of her taking the chief ministers post!!
And her bloody Sumo convoy held me up for two hour in Chitrakoot, She's a bit dour looking as well or at least she was when she passed me by in Orchha!
And her bloody Sumo convoy held me up for two hour in Chitrakoot, She's a bit dour looking as well or at least she was when she passed me by in Orchha!
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 04:37 PM
bellary-hampi
a few years ago.
a few years ago.
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 06:12 PM
john.sw, on May 18 2006, 07:57 PM, said:
“In India we drive on the left of the road – In Ooty we drive on what is left of the road!” 
Mmm, this sounds like Assam. Once you get north-east of Dibrugah, there are more potholes than tarmac.
The best roads we saw are the ones maintained by BRO (Border Roads Organisation) in Sikkim....but I think there's strategic reasons for that...
Surprisingly, the ones around Cherrapungi are fine - having the highest rainfall in the world, you might expect them to be washed away every year.
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 06:14 PM
I agree Torry there was a marked difference in the roads as soon as you crossed the West Bengal border and a lot more booze shops as I remember 
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 10:19 PM
cyberhippie, on Jun 4 2006, 05:44 AM, said:
I agree Torry there was a marked difference in the roads as soon as you crossed the West Bengal border and a lot more booze shops as I remember 
More reasons why Sikkim is heaven on earth!
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Posted 04 June 2006 - 10:25 PM
dzibead, on Jun 4 2006, 05:49 PM, said:
More reasons why Sikkim is heaven on earth!
Yep!
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:40 AM
Madhya Pradesh must be the Condition with the most severe roadways I have ever frequently went on in Indian. The relax in the air and the relax in the potholes!!! Actually many very lengthy periods of the Nationwide Freeway were just basically mud roadways with ruts in them like you have on town monitors created by bullock carts!!! So you can think about what connections you can obtain on the highways!
