<P> In the 1830 's the East India Company started a programme of metalled road construction , for both commercial and administrative purposes . The Grand trunk road , from Calcutta , through Delhi , to Peshawar ( present - day Pakistan ) was rebuilt at a cost of £ 1000 / mile , and a Public Works Department , and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee founded , to train and employ local surveyors , engineers , and overseers , to perform the work , and in future maintain it and other roads . </P>
<P> In the 1830 's the East India Company started a programme of metalled road construction , for both commercial and administrative purposes . The Grand trunk road , from Calcutta , through Delhi , to Peshawar ( present - day Pakistan ) was rebuilt at a cost of £ 1000 / mile , and a Public Works Department , and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee founded , to train and employ local surveyors , engineers , and overseers , to perform the work , and in future maintain it and other roads . </P>
who repaired grand trunk road from calcutta to delhi
who repaired grand trunk road from calcutta to delhi
the East India Company
the East India Company