National Highway 44 is the longest national highway in India and important facts related to roadways.

Longest running National Highway:-

 National Highway 44 is the longest national highway in India.

 It is 3745 km and covers the North South Corridor of NHDP.It connects Srinagar to Kanyakumari it was laid and maintained by Central Public Works Department.The NH 44 came into existence after merging full or parts of NH-1A, NH 1 part of NH-2 from Delhi to Agra, NH-3, former NH-75 NH 26 and NH-7. Highway pass through seven Indian state.

 National Highway are those major roads whose construction and maintenance is the responsibility of national highway authority of India.The NHAI was operationlised in 1995 it is entrusted with the responsibility of development, maintenance and operation of national highway. It is also the Apex body to improve the quality of the road and design added as National Highway these roads with total length of 1,20,543 km connected the state capitals ,ports and important cities and constitutes the backbone of India's road transport system. These are 235 National Highway in the country. Although these Highway constitutes only 2 % of the total length of surface roads in the country there share in the total road traffic is nearly 40%.

                                          important national highways(nh)

national highways	route
nh-1 nh-2 nh-3 nh-4 nh-5 nh-6 nh-7 nh-8 nh-9 nh-10 nh-15 nh-17 nh-28	delhi-amritsar delhi-kolkata agra-mumbai thane-chennai chennai-baharagora hazira-kolkata varanasi-kanyakumari delhi-mumbai(raj-gujrat) pune-machilipatnam delhi-fazilka pathankot-samakhiali panwel-edapally delhi-lakhknow

 

 

Important facts related to roadways:-

1.     NH-1 and NH-2 are collectively called as the grand trunk road.

2.     The Jawahar tunnel is situated in the NH-1A. This highway connects Jalandhar with uri via Jammu and Srinagar. The Jawahar tunnel is located at Banihal pass connecting jammu and Srinagar.

3.     The smallest national highways of india is NH-47A. This is situated in Willingdon island of vembanad(kerala).

4.     The highest roadway of the world is the manali-leh highway.

 

                                         

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