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The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sadak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sadak, and Long Walk) [1] is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years [ 3 ] it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent .
The name is derived from the Sanskrit terms uttara, for north, and patha, for road.Initially, the term Uttarapatha referred to the northern high road, the main trade route that followed along the river Ganges, crossed the Indo-Gangetic watershed, ran through the Punjab to Taxila (Gandhara) and further to Zariaspa or Balkh in Central Asia.
Maharashtra state has a good road network. There are 10088 national highways and many state highways with total length of 33,705 km. Major state highways are MH MSH 1, MH MSH 3, MH MSH 6, MH MSH 9, MH MSH 10,MH MSH 11.
However, the southern road appears to have drifted since the ancient era. Rama's route into exile in the epic may have been an early version of the road, but by the time of Buddha it started at Varanasi and ran through Vidisha in central India, to Pratishthana (now Paithan). It probably extended all the way to Chola, Chera and Pandya kingdoms ...
The Grand Trunk Road is one of Asia's oldest and longest roads. It connects Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. The road has been used at least since the times of the Maurya Empire in the 4th century BCE, has been reconstructed several times in different periods, and has been upgraded to modern traffic in the 20th century. In addition ...
Renumbered National Highways map of India (schematic) The national highways in India are a network of limited access 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 highway intersection, flyovers are ...
A section of the Golden Quadrilateral highway from Chennai–Mumbai phase NH46: Bengaluru–Chennai section of India's 4-lane Golden Quadrilateral highway NH 16 another section of Golden Quadrilateral highway in Visakhapatnam on the Kolkata–Chennai section Kolkata–Durgapur section of India's GQ highway NH4: Chennai–Mumbai section of the GQ highway near Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
The Shaktipeeth Expressway, [2] is an approved 802 km (498 mi) long, six-lane access-controlled expressway, which will connect the third-largest city of Maharashtra, Nagpur, with the state of Goa.