» The national highways network of India is a
network of highways that
is managed and maintained by agencies of the Government of India.
» These highways measured
over 100,087 km (62,191 mi) as of June 2016, including over
1,000 km (620 mi) of limited-access expressways (motorways).
» The National Highways Authority of
India (NHAI) is the nodal agency responsible for building, upgrading
and maintaining most of the national highways network. It operates under the Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways.
» The National Highways Development
Project (NHDP) is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network of
highways.
» 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. It is a systematic
numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the
highway. This was adopted to ensure more flexibility and consistency in the
numbering of existing and new national highways.
» As per the new numbering
system:
·
All
north-south oriented highways will have even numbers increasing from the east
to the west
·
All
east-west oriented highways will have odd numbers increasing from the north to
the south
·
All
major Highways will be single digit or double digit in number
·
Three
digit numbered highways are secondary routes or branches of a main highway. The
secondary route number is prefixed to the number of the main highway. For
example, 144, 244, 344 etc will be the branches of the main NH44
·
Suffixes
A, B, C, D etc are added to the three digit sub highways to indicate very small
spin-offs or stretches of sub-highways
List of
Important National Highways (Updated)
NH No
|
States
|
Length
|
1
|
Jammu and Kashmir
|
535 km
(332 mi)
|
2
|
Assam,
Nagaland,
Manipur,
Mizoram
|
1,214 km
(754 mi)
|
3
|
Punjab,
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir
|
427 km
(265 mi)
|
4
|
Andaman & Nicobar
|
230 km
(140 mi)
|
5
|
Punjab,
Chandigarh,
Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh
|
637 km
(396 mi)
|
6
|
Meghalaya,
Assam,
Mizoram
|
1,873 km
(1,164 mi)
|
7
|
Punjab,
Chandigarh,
Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
|
770 km
(480 mi)
|
8
|
Assam,Tripura
|
371 km
(231 mi)
|
9
|
Punjab,
Haryana,
Delhi, Uttar
Pradesh, Uttarakhand
|
811 km
(504 mi)
|
10
|
Sikkim, West Bengal
|
174 km
(108 mi)
|
11
|
Rajasthan
|
495 km
(308 mi)
|
12
|
West Bengal
|
612 km
(380 mi)
|
13
|
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
|
1,150 km
(710 mi)
|
14
|
West Bengal
|
306 km
(190 mi)
|
15
|
Assam,
Arunachal Pradesh
|
664 km
(413 mi)
|
16
|
West Bengal,
Odisha,
Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
|
1,659 km
(1,031 mi)
|
17
|
West Bengal,
Assam
|
477 km
(296 mi)
|
18
|
Jharkhand,
West Bengal,
Odisha
|
359 km
(223 mi)
|
19
|
Delhi,
Haryana, Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal
|
1,435 km
(892 mi)
|
20
|
Bihar,
Jharkhand,
Odisha
|
658 km
(409 mi)
|
21
|
Rajasthan,
Uttar
Pradesh
|
262 km
(163 mi)
|
22
|
Bihar,
Jharkhand
|
416 km
(258 mi)
|
23
|
Rajasthan
|
222 km
(138 mi)
|
24
|
Uttar
Pradesh
|
293 km
(182 mi)
|
25
|
Rajasthan
|
353 km
(219 mi)
|
26
|
Odisha,
Andhra
Pradesh
|
526 km
(327 mi)
|
27
|
Gujarat,
Rajasthan,
Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal,
Assam
|
3,507 km
(2,179 mi)
|
28
|
Uttar
Pradesh
|
305 km
(190 mi)
|
29
|
Assam,
Nagaland
|
320 km
(200 mi)
|
30
|
Uttarakhand,
Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Telangana,
Andhra
Pradesh
|
2,010 km
(1,250 mi)
|
31
|
Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal
|
968 km
(601 mi)
|
32
|
Tamil Nadu,
Puducherry
|
314 km
(195 mi)
|
33
|
Bihar, West Bengal
|
443 km
(275 mi)
|
34
|
Uttarakhand,
Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh
|
1,426 km
(886 mi)
|
35
|
Uttar
Pradesh
|
346 km
(215 mi)
|
36
|
Tamil Nadu
|
334 km
(208 mi)
|
37
|
Assam,
Manipur
|
313 km
(194 mi)
|
38
|
Tamil Nadu
|
604 km
(375 mi)
|
39
|
Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand
|
869 km
(540 mi)
|
40
|
Andhra
Pradesh
|
420 km
(260 mi)
|
41
|
Gujarat
|
290 km
(180 mi)
|
42
|
Karnataka,
Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
|
337 km
(209 mi)
|
43
|
Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand
|
806 km
(501 mi)
|
44longest
|
Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana,
Delhi, Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Telangana,
Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
|
3,745 km
(2,327 mi)
|
45
|
Madhya
Pradesh
|
280 km
(170 mi)
|
46
|
Madhya
Pradesh
|
604 km
(375 mi)
|
47
|
Gujarat,
Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra
|
1,080 km
(670 mi)
|
48
|
Delhi,
Haryana,
Rajasthan,
Gujarat,
Maharashtra,
Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu
|
2,807 km
(1,744 mi)
|
49
|
Chhattishgarh,
Odisha,
Jharkhand,
West Bengal
|
706 km
(439 mi)
|
50
|
Karnataka
|
544 km
(338 mi)
|
51
|
Gujarat
|
522 km
(324 mi)
|
52
|
Punjab,
Haryana,
Rajasthan,
Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka
|
2,317 km
(1,440 mi)
|
53
|
Gujarat,
Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh,
Odisha
|
1,781 km
(1,107 mi)
|
54
|
Punjab
|
340 km
(210 mi)
|
55
|
Odisha
|
264 km
(164 mi)
|
56
|
Rajasthan,
Madhya
Pradesh, Gujarat
|
290 km
(180 mi)
|
57
|
Odisha
|
297 km
(185 mi)
|
58
|
Rajasthan
|
620 km
(390 mi)
|
59
|
Odisha
|
352 km
(219 mi)
|
60
|
Maharashtra
|
395 km
(245 mi)
|
61
|
Maharashtra,
Telangana
|
652 km
(405 mi)
|
62
|
Punjab,
Rajasthan
|
748 km
(465 mi)
|
63
|
Telangana,
Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh,
Odisha
|
560 km
(350 mi)
|
64
|
Gujarat
|
332 km
(206 mi)
|
65
|
Maharashtra,
Karnataka,
Telangana,
Andhra
Pradesh
|
926 km
(575 mi)
|
66
|
Maharashtra,
Goa, Karnataka,
Kerala, Tamil Nadu
|
1,593 km
(990 mi)
|
67
|
Karnataka,
Andhra
Pradesh
|
300 km
(190 mi)
|
68
|
Rajasthan,
Gujarat
|
429 km
(267 mi)
|
69
|
Karnataka,
Andhra
Pradesh
|
625 km
(388 mi)
|
71
|
Andhra
Pradesh
|
108 km
(67 mi)
|
73
|
Karnataka
|
316 km
(196 mi)
|
75
|
Karnataka,Tamil Nadu
|
533 km
(331 mi)
|
77
|
Tamil Nadu
|
177 km
(110 mi)
|
79
|
Tamil Nadu
|
137 km
(85 mi)
|
81
|
Tamil Nadu
|
340 km
(210 mi)
|
83
|
Tamil Nadu
|
394 km
(245 mi)
|
85
|
Kerala, Tamil Nadu
|
413 km
(257 mi)
|
87
|
Tamil Nadu
|
154 km
(96 mi)
|
Frequently asked:
Which is the longest National Highway in India?
National Highway 44 (NH 44),
(previously National Highway 7),
is longest running major North-South National
Highway in India that
starts from Srinagar and
terminates in Kanyakumari,
the highway passes through the states of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab,
Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
Which is the shortest National Highway in India?
National Highway 966B, also known as NH 966B is the shortest National
Highway in India. Its old name was NH 47A. It covers a distance of 8 km
(5.0 mi) between Kundannoor and Willingdon
Island in Kochi, Kerala. It
starts from the junction of NH 544 at Kundannoor.
See also:
