Important Points you should know about Roadways of India

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In 1943, Nagpur plan classified the roads into 4 categories. Those are,

1. National Highway
2. State Highway
3. District Roads
4. Village Roads

• Indian road network is the third largest in the world.
• India has a road network of over 4.42 million km.
• National highways are constructed and maintained by Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

The Five Express Highways of India are 

1. Western Express way
2. Eastern Express Way
3. Highway between Kolkata and Dum Dum Airport
4. Highway between Sukinda mines aand Paradip Port
5. Express Highway between Durgapur and Kolkata

National Highways

• NH1 : New Delhi - Ambala - Jalandhar - Amritsar
• NH2 : Delhi - Mathura - Agra - Kanpur - Allahabad - Varanasi - Kolkata
• NH3 : Agra - Gwalior - Nashik - Mumbai
• NH4 : Thane - Chennai - (via Pune - Belgam)
• NH5 : Kolkata - Chennai
• NH6 : Kolkata - Dhule
• NH7 : Varanasi - Kanyakumar
• NH8 : Delhi - Mumbai (Via Jaipur - Baroda - Ahmedabad)
• NH9 : Mumbai - Vijayawada
• NH10 : Delhi - Fazilka
• NH11 : Jaipur - Bikaner
• NH12 : Jabalpur - Jaipur
• NH24 : Delhi - Lucknow
• NH27 : Allahabad - Varanasi
• NH28 : Barauni - Lucknow
• NH29 : Gorakhpur - Varanasi
• NH47A : Kundanoor - Willington Island in Kochi

Some important points about National Highways

• NH7 is the longest National Highway in India.
• NH5 and NH17 run along the Eastern and the Western coast respectively.
• NH15 represents the border road in Rajasthan desert.
• NH47A is the shortest highway in the Indian highway network.

National Highway Development Programme (NHDP)

National Highway Development Programme consists of the following projects.

1. The Golden Quadrilateral Project involves connectivity of 
1. Delhi to Kolkata 1453 km (NH2)
2. Delhi to Mumbai 1419 km (NH8, NH76 and NH79)
3. Mumbai to Chennai 1290 km (NH4, NH7 and NH46)
4. Chennai to Kolkata 1684 km (NH5, NH6 and NH60)
• Total length 5846 km, out of which maximum length is in Andhra Pradesh (1016 km) followed by Uttar Pradesh (753 km).
2. North-South and East-West Corridors.
1. NS corridor connects Srinagar to Kanyakumari.
2. EW corridor connects Porbandar (Gujarat) to Silchar (Asom).
3. To upgrade 12109 km of National Highway with 4 lanes of BOT basis. It will cover NHs after the Phase 1 and Phase 2.

• NS and EW corridors cross each other at Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh)
• Total length of this project is 7300 km.
• Maximum length of corridors is in Tamil Nadu (856 km) followed by Uttar Pradesh (851 km).

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