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[1] [2] [3] In July 2023, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said total length of the national highways in the country increased by about 59% in the last nine years. [1] National highways constituted 2.7% of India's total road network, but carried about 40% of road traffic, as of 2013. [4]
Indian national highways are further classified based on the width of the carriageway of the highway. India has around 150,000 km (93,000 mi) of National Highways as of April 2021 and is expected to reach 200,000 km By 2024 consisting of Top Notch Highways And Expressways. [42] National Highways constituted 2.7% of India's total road network ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
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 ...
There are 55 national highways including one national expressway(NE7) in Andhra Pradesh with a total length of 8683.15km as of 31 Dec 2022. [2]: 121 [3] These are administered by NHAI agencies or the state R&B department.
At 0.66 km of highway per square kilometre of land the density of India's highway network is higher than that of the United States (0.65) and far higher than that of China's (0.16) or Brazil's (0.20). [1] India has a network of National Highways connecting all the major cities and state capitals, forming the economic backbone of the country.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was created through the promulgation of 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.
The ‘’National Highways Wing’’ of the highways department of Tamil Nadu was established in 1971 to look after the works of improving, maintaining and renewing of National Highways laid down by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). [5] There are 48 national highways of length 6,805 kilometres (4,228 mi) in the state. [6]