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National Highways in India
National Highways in India
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Some Interesting Facts on National Highways:
The national highways consume only 1.7% of all Indian roads. Yet they
control 40% of road traffic in the country.
The smallest national highway is NH47A (Now known as NH 966B)
with a mere length of 6 kms. It runs from Ernakulam to Kochi Port.
The NH7 (Now known as National Highway 44 (NH 44)) is the longest
national highway in India with a length of 2369 kms, running from
Varanasi to Kanyakumari.
As a part of the National Highways Development Project, the North-
South-East-West corridor (NS-EW) is being constructed, which is a
whopping 7300 kms long. As of 31 March 2015 , 6375 of 7300
kilometers project has been completed . The NS corridor stretches from
Srinagar in J&K; all the way to Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of
India while the EW corridor connects Porbandar in Gujarat with Silchar
in Assam. This comes under phase 2 of the NHDP project under
NHAI.
Furthermore, under the same project, the Golden Quadrilateral(GQ)
stretch which connects the four metro cities of India (Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata and Chennai) is also under construction, and is as long as 5846
KM.
Milestones play a significant role too. They help distinguish a national
highway from a city highway or a state highway based on these
specifications: The paintings specified on kilometer stone are:
National: Yellow and white.
State: Green and white.
City: Black and white.