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Schematic map of National Highways in India. On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [1] [2] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This ...
The longest National Highway in new numbering scheme is National Highway 44.. The longest National Highway under the old numbering scheme was the NH 7 which was from Varanasi to Kanyakumari passing through Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu covering a distance of 4,572 km (2,841 mi), as of Sep 2011 as per National Highways Authority ...
The most common of these was a vigesimal (base-20) numbering system with the main denomination called a bisi (see Hindustani number bīs), which corresponded to the land required to sow 20 nalis of seed. Consequently, its actual land measure varied based on the quality of the soil. [5] This system became the established norm in Kumaon by 1891. [6]
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. [9]
A map showing the triangles and transects used in the Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1852), produced in 1870. Surveyor-General of India George Everest (b.1790-d.1866) under whom GTS was completed and Mount Everest was named in his honour. The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. [3]
Due to Rationalization of Numbering Systems of National Highways by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, old NH 71 has been renumbered as follows. [3] Jalandhar - Moga - Barnala section is part of new National Highway 703; Barnala - Sangrur section is part of new National Highway 7; Sangrur - Narwana section is part of new National Highway 52
Due to Rationalization of Numbering Systems of National Highways by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, old NH 10 has been renumbered as follows. [2] Fazilka - Abohar - Malout section is part of new National Highway No. 7; Malout - Sirsa - Hisar - Delhi section is part of new National Highway No. 9
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Highway system; Roads in India; Expressways; National; ... ← NH 109: → NH 9: National Highway 530 (NH 530) is a National ...