India has 151,019 km (93,839 mi) of National Highways as of March 2021.[1]
National Highways constituted 2.7% of India's total road network, but carried about 40% of road traffic, as of 2013.[2] In 2016, the government vowed to double the highway length from 96,000 to 200,000 km.[3]
The majority of existing highways are now four-lane roads (two lanes in each direction), though much of this is being expanded to six or more lanes. Some sections of the network are toll roads. Only a few highways are built with concrete. Bypasses have been constructed around larger towns and cities to provide uninterrupted passage for highway traffic. Some existing roads have been reclassified as National Highways.
History
The National Highways Act, 1956[4] provided for public i.e. state investment in the building and maintenance of the highways.
The National Highways Authority of India was established by the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. Section 16(1) of the Act states that the function of NHAI is to develop, maintain, and manage the National Highways and any other highways vested in, or entrusted to, it by the Government of India.
In 1998 India launched a massive program of highway upgrades, called the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), in which the main north–south and east–west corridors and highways connecting the four metropolitan cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata) have been fully paved and widened into four-lane highways. Some of the busier National Highway sectors in India were also converted to four- or six-lane limited-access highways.
National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited started functioning w.e.f. 18 July 2014.[5] It is a fully owned company of Government of India under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and was created to develop, maintain and manage the national highways, strategic roads and other infrastructure of India. It was dedicated to the task of promoting regional connectivity in parts of the country which share international boundaries. It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of National Highways in hilly terrain of North-East part of India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Uttarakhand. It works as a specialised agency in high altitude areas and border areas. Apart from highways, NHIDCL is constructing logictic hubs and transport related infrastructure e.g. multimodal transport hubs such as bus ports, container depots, automated multilevel car parking etc.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways adopted a new systematic numbering of National Highways in April 2010.[6] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. The new system indicates the direction of National Highways whether they are east–west (odd numbers) or north–south (even numbers). It also indicates the geographical region where they are with even numbers increasing from east to west starting from NH2 and odd numbers increasing from north to south starting from NH1.[7]
Bharatmala, a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India[8] with a target of constructing 83,677 km (51,994 mi)[9] of new highways, has been started in 2018. Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34,800 km of highways (including the remaining projects under NHDP) at an estimated cost of ₹5.35 lakhcrore (US$67 billion) by 2021-22.[10]
Network Length
Total Length of National Highways in India in (KM) [11][12]
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^Mahapatra, Dhananjay (2 July 2013). "NDA regime constructed 50% of national highways laid in last 30 years: Centre". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
^"National Highways road length to be increased from 96,000 km to 2,000,000 km: Nitin Gadkari". The Financial Express. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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This article is about national highways For expressways see Expressways in India The National highways in India are a network of trunk roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways National highways have flyover access or some controlled access where entrance and exit is through the side of the flyover at each intersection of highways flyovers are provided to bypass the city town village traffic and these highways are designed for speed of 100 km hr Some national highways have interchanges in between but do not have total controlled access throughout the highways It is constructed and managed by the Central Public Works Department CPWD the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited NHIDCL and the public works departments PWD of state governments Currently the longest National Highway in India is National Highway 44 at 4 112 km 2 555 mi Renumbered National Highways map of India Schematic The National Highways Authority of India NHAI and the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited NHIDCL are the nodal agencies responsible for building upgrading and maintaining most of the National Highways network It operates under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways The National Highways Development Project NHDP is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network of highways NHAI often uses a public private partnership model for highway maintenance and toll collection NHIDCL uses Engineering Procurement and Construction EPC model to build develop and maintain strategic roads in International borders of the country In India National Highways are at grade roads whereas Expressways are controlled access highways where entrance and exit is controlled by the use ramps that are incorporated into the design of the expressway National Highways follows standards set by Indian Roads Congress and Bureau of Indian Standards NHs in India Contents 1 Characteristics 2 History 3 Network Length 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 References and notes 7 External linksCharacteristics Edit Entrance of National Highway 44 the longest National Highway in India from Srinagar to Kanyakumari A dual carriageway section of NH 48 connecting Delhi to Gurgaon National Highway 27 in Gujarat A section of NH130 between Raipur and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh India has 151 019 km 93 839 mi of National Highways as of March 2021 1 National Highways constituted 2 7 of India s total road network but carried about 40 of road traffic as of 2013 2 In 2016 the government vowed to double the highway length from 96 000 to 200 000 km 3 The majority of existing highways are now four lane roads two lanes in each direction though much of this is being expanded to six or more lanes Some sections of the network are toll roads Only a few highways are built with concrete Bypasses have been constructed around larger towns and cities to provide uninterrupted passage for highway traffic Some existing roads have been reclassified as National Highways History EditThe National Highways Act 1956 4 provided for public i e state investment in the building and maintenance of the highways The National Highways Authority of India was established by the National Highways Authority of India Act 1988 Section 16 1 of the Act states that the function of NHAI is to develop maintain and manage the National Highways and any other highways vested in or entrusted to it by the Government of India In 1998 India launched a massive program of highway upgrades called the National Highways Development Project NHDP in which the main north south and east west corridors and highways connecting the four metropolitan cities Delhi Mumbai Chennai and Kolkata have been fully paved and widened into four lane highways Some of the busier National Highway sectors in India were also converted to four or six lane limited access highways National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited started functioning w e f 18 July 2014 5 It is a fully owned company of Government of India under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and was created to develop maintain and manage the national highways strategic roads and other infrastructure of India It was dedicated to the task of promoting regional connectivity in parts of the country which share international boundaries It is responsible for the development maintenance and management of National Highways in hilly terrain of North East part of India Andaman amp Nicobar Islands Himachal Pradesh Jammu amp Kashmir Ladakh and Uttarakhand It works as a specialised agency in high altitude areas and border areas Apart from highways NHIDCL is constructing logictic hubs and transport related infrastructure e g multimodal transport hubs such as bus ports container depots automated multilevel car parking etc The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways adopted a new systematic numbering of National Highways in April 2010 6 It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway The new system indicates the direction of National Highways whether they are east west odd numbers or north south even numbers It also indicates the geographical region where they are with even numbers increasing from east to west starting from NH2 and odd numbers increasing from north to south starting from NH1 7 Bharatmala a centrally sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India 8 with a target of constructing 83 677 km 51 994 mi 9 of new highways has been started in 2018 Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34 800 km of highways including the remaining projects under NHDP at an estimated cost of 5 35 lakh crore US 67 billion by 2021 22 10 Network Length EditTotal Length of National Highways in India in KM 11 12 Year Total Length in KM 2021 2022 140 9952020 2021 136 4402019 2020 132 9952018 2019 132 5002017 2018 126 5002016 2017 114 1582015 2016 101 0112014 2015 97 9912013 2014 91 2872012 2013 79 1162011 2012 76 8182010 2011 70 9342009 2010 70 9342008 2009 70 5482007 2008 66 7542006 2007 66 5902005 2006 66 5902004 2005 65 5692003 2004 65 5692002 2003 58 1122001 2002 58 1121991 2001 57 7371981 1991 33 6501971 1981 31 6711961 1971 23 8381950 1961 23 798National Highways in India by state and union territories and maintaining agency 13 14 State Union Territory State PWD NHAI NHIDCL 15 Total Length as on 31 03 2019 km Andaman and Nicobar Islands 87 331Andhra Pradesh 6 912Arunachal Pradesh 1 035 2 537Assam 1 010 3 909Bihar 5 358Chandigarh 15Chhattisgarh 3 605Dadra and Nagar Haveli 31Daman and Diu 22Delhi 157Goa 293Gujarat 6 635Haryana 3 166Himachal Pradesh 320 2 607Jammu amp Kashmir 436 2 423Jharkhand 3 367Karnataka 7 335Kerala 1 782Lakshadweep 0Madhya Pradesh 8 772Maharashtra 17 757Manipur 1 751 1 750Meghalaya 823 1 156Mizoram 372 1422 5Nagaland 324 1 548Odisha 5 762Puducherry 27Punjab 3 274Rajasthan 10 342Sikkim 595 463Tamil Nadu 6 742Telangana 3 795Tripura 573 854Uttarakhand 660 2 949Uttar Pradesh 11 737West Bengal 4 3 664India total 48 590 16 7 990 132 500 17 Trivia EditThe longest National Highway is NH44 18 which runs between Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir and Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu covering a distance of 3 806 km 2 365 mi The shortest National Highway is NH766EE 19 20 which spans 4 27 km 2 65 mi from Hettikeri to Belekeri port in Karnataka The Leh Manali Highway connecting Leh in Ladakh to Manali in Himachal Pradesh is the world s second highest altitude motorable highway citation needed See also EditList of National Highways in India by highway number List of National Highways in India by state List of National Highways in India by union territory India Myanmar Thailand Trilateral Highway Roads in IndiaReferences and notes Edit NATIONALHighways construction touches record 37 km per day Gadkari Archived 9 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Hindu Retrieved 29 August 2021 Mahapatra Dhananjay 2 July 2013 NDA regime constructed 50 of national highways laid in last 30 years Centre The Times of India Retrieved 18 April 2015 National Highways road length to be increased from 96 000 km to 2 000 000 km Nitin Gadkari The Financial Express 17 December 2016 Retrieved 27 June 2017 The National Highways Act 1956 Archived from the original on 14 February 2012 Retrieved 2 December 2012 NHIDCL Ministry of RT amp H Rationalisation of Numbering Systems of National Highways PDF New Delhi Department of Road Transport and Highways Archived from the original PDF on 16 August 2016 Retrieved 2 September 2012 New numbers for national highways The Times of India 21 October 2011 Retrieved 18 April 2015 Bharat Mala PM Narendra Modi s planned Rs 14 000 crore road from Gujarat to Mizoram The Economic Times New Delhi 29 April 2015 Ministry proposes construction of 20 000 km of roads under Bharat Mala project The Economic Times New Delhi 9 January 2016 Bharatmala Pariyojana A Stepping Stone towards New India National Portal of India www india gov in Retrieved 18 January 2018 https morth nic in sites default files Annual 20Report 20 202021 20 English compressed pdf Archived 16 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine bare URL PDF https morth nic in sites default files Annual 20Report 21 22 1 pdf Archived 31 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine bare URL PDF National Highways Summary Ministry of Road Transport amp Highways Government of India morth nic in Retrieved 21 August 2017 Welcome to NHAI www nhai org Archived from the original on 15 February 2013 Retrieved 21 August 2017 Overview of All NHIDCL Projects PDF nhidcl com 15 February 2017 Retrieved 19 December 2020 http nhai gov in writereaddata Portal Images pdf AnnualReport201516 pdf Archived 10 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine bare URL PDF https morth nic in sites default files Summary of NHs 1 pdf Archived 15 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine bare URL PDF New numbers for national highways Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Maps of India List of highways in Karnatakaa nhai gov in 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