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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.
To complete the route, existing roads will be upgraded and new roads constructed to link the network. US$ 25 billion has been spent or committed As of 2007, [update] with additional US$18 billion needed for upgrades and improvements to 26,000 kilometres (16,000 miles) of highway.
[n] To promote movement and trade, the Maurya dynasty built roads, most prominently a chiefly winter-time road—the Uttarapath—which connected eastern Afghanistan to their capital Patliputra during the time of year when the water levels in the intersecting rivers were low and they could be easily forded.
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 ...
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 ...
Through 1950s China planned and constructed a road through its western frontier in Xinjiang and Tibet (Hotan/Rutog). [5] [clarification needed] China announced completion of the road in September 1957. [6] [7] A number of reasons [weasel words] for building the road has been conceptualized, including cementing China's control over the region.
Mughal Sarai is on National Highway No. 2, which is known as Grand Trunk Road made by the Emperor Sher Shah Suri. Sher Shah Suri had named this road as Sadak-e-Azam. In ancient times this road was known as Uttarapath. Jarasandh adopted this very route to attack Mathura under the Kingship of Lord Krishna.