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National Highway 44 (NH 44) is a major north–south National Highway in India and is the longest in the country. It passes through the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, in addition to the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. [1]
Entrance of National Highway 44, the longest National Highway in India (from Srinagar to Kanyakumari) National Highway 27 in Gujarat A section of National Highway 24 in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. India has 161,350 km (100,260 mi) of national highways as of March 2022 compared to 1,01,011 km in FY 2013–14.
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.
Longest highway in Brazil. National Highway 44: 4,658 km (2,894 mi) Indian-administered Kashmir and India: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir: Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu: Longest national highway of India. National Highway 27: 3,507 km (2,179 mi) India: Porbandar, Gujarat: Silchar, Assam: East - West National highway in India Chile Route 5: 3,364 km ...
At 5,846 kilometres (3,633 mi), it is the largest highway project in India and the fifth longest in the world. [1] It is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of two, four, and six-lane express highways, built at a cost of ₹ 600 billion (US$7.2 billion). [2]
This is a list of the States of India ranked by the length of the national highways, as of 23 May 2014. [1] National Highways are the arterial roads of the country for inter-state movements of goods and passengers. They traverse the length and width of the country connecting the National and State capitals, major ports and rail junctions and ...
A scene from the Ambala cantonment in British India. In the 1830s the East India Company started a program of metalled road construction, for both commercial and administrative purposes. The road, now named the Grand Trunk Road, from Calcutta, through Delhi, to Kabul, Afghanistan was rebuilt at a cost of £1000/mile.