National Highways of India by Dr. Gaurav Garg
● National Highways Authority of India was set up by an act of the Parliament, NHAI Act, 1988
● The Highways/Expressways (direct connectivity between two places without many brakes)
constitute only about 1.7% of the length of all roads, they carry about 40% of the road traffic .
● Mumbai-Pune Expressway was the first expressway in India.
● Expressway reduces the transportation cost as less time is taken to cover that distance due to direct connectivity.
Major expressways
Purvanchal Expressway project
● Purvanchal is in eastern UP.
● Starting point: Village Chand Sarai, located at Lucknow-Sultanpur Road (NH-731), district Lucknow.
● Ending Point: Near village Haidaria on National Highway No.-19, in district Ghazipur.
● Total length: 340.824 KM.
● Other districts falling on the expressway – 1. Lucknow, 2- Barabanki, 3- Amethi, 4- Sultanpur, 5-Ayodhya, 6-
Ambedkar Nagar, 7-Azamgarh, 8-Mau, 9-Ghazipur
Gorakhpur link expressway project
● Total length - 91.352 KM
● Starting point: Jaitpur (District-Gorakhpur) bye-pass.
● Ending Point: Salarpur (District Azamgarh) at Purvanchal expressway.
● Districts falling on the expressway – 1. Gorakhpur, 2- Azamgarh, 3- Ambedkarnagar, 4- Sant Kabir Nagar Project.
These intermediate places can be reached by taking diversions from the expressway.
Ganga Expressway
● It will be completed by 2025 and will be the longest expressway of UP.
● Starting from N.H. 334, in district Meerut
● Ending in district Prayagraj
● Length of project:- 594 KM approx.
● Districts benefited from the project:- Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahar, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur,
Hardoi, Unnao, Rai Bareli, Pratapgarh, and Prayagraj.
Agra-Lucknow Expressway Project (Greenfield)
● 302.222 Km long
● The expressway starts at Agra inner ring road, passes through Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etawah, Auraiya, Kannauj,
Kanpur Nagar, Hardoi, Unnao district. and ends on SH-40 in Lucknow.
● Greenfield means brand new project.
Bundelkhand Expressway (Green Field)
● The starting point of the project:- Near Bharatkoop in district Chitrakoot.
● The ending point of the project:- Near village Kudrail in district Etawah on Agra-Lucknow expressway.
● For Omni-directional development in the Bundelkhand area, especially in less developed districts like Chitrakoot,
Banda, Hamirpur, and Jalaun the State Government has pledged to construct Bundelkhand Expressway.
● This expressway will link the Bundelkhand area from the national capital Delhi through the Agra-Lucknow
expressway and Yamuna expressway as well as will play a vital role in the development of the Bundelkhand area.
● Length of the project:- Total 296.070 KM.
● Districts benefited from the project: Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya, and Etawah.
Defence Corridor
● Defense Corridor meaning giving good connectivity among defense production units called nodal points.
● This is being done to boost self-reliance and exports in the defense sector.
Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor
● It is being set up by the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA).
● It consists of the following six nodal points with the potential to develop defense industries in the corridor: Agra
Aligarh Chitrakoot Jhansi Kanpur Lucknow
Tamil Nadu Defence Corridor
● It is being set up by the Government of Tamil Nadu, consists of the following five nodal points: Chennai Coimbatore
Hosur Salem Tiruchirappalli
Yamuna Expressway or Taj Expressway
● It is a 6-lane (extendable to 8 lanes), 165 km long, access-controlled expressway, connecting Greater Noida with
Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
● The project was started to decongest the older Delhi-Agra national highway (NH-2) or Mathura Road which is
already over-congested.
Eastern Peripheral Expressway
● Also known as Kundli–Ghaziabad–Palwal (KGP) Expressway or National Expressway 2
● Length - 135 km
● The expressway starts from the Western Peripheral Expressway at Kundli, Sonipat, passing through Baghpat,
Ghaziabad, and Noida districts in UP and Faridabad district in Haryana before rejoining the Western Peripheral
Expressway near Dholagarh, Palwal.
Western Peripheral Expressway
● Also known as Kundli–Manesar–Palwal (KMP) Expressway
● Length - 135.6 km
● Western Peripheral Expressway along with Eastern Peripheral Expressway completes the largest Ring Road around
Delhi.
Brahmaputra Express Highway
● Construction of 890 km of express highway along the entire length of Brahmaputra in the state from Sadiya in the
east to Dhubri in the west.
The Narmada Expressway
● 1,300 km long expressway that will run across the state of Madhya Pradesh, passing through the historic town of
Amarkantak on the eastern edge of the state, where the Narmada river originates, Dindori, Shahpura, Jabalpur, and
Alirajpur in the western end.
Chandili-Rourkela Expressway (Biju Expressway)
● Stretching over 656 km from Rourkela in the northern part of Odisha to Chandili in the southern part of the state.
● It is named after Biju Patnaik.
Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway
● Also known as the Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, this is a 701 km long, eight-lane expressway connecting
Mumbai on the western edge of Maharashtra and Nagpur on the eastern end of the state.
● Now its name is changed and called Balasaheb Thakre Expressway.
Notes
● National Expressway 1: Ahmedabad–Vadodara Expressway
● National Expressway 2: Eastern Peripheral Expressway,
● National Expressway 3: Delhi–Meerut Expressway
● National Expressway 4: Mumbai–Vadodara Expressway
● National Expressway 5: Delhi–Gurdaspur stretch of Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway
● National Expressway 6: Lucknow–Kanpur Expressway, declared as NE 6
● Ques: Which was the first expressway in India? Mumbai – Pune expressway
National Highways (Old Numbering prior to 2010)
● NH -1 Delhi to Amritsar (it goes till Jammu)
● NH-2 Delhi to Kolkata
● NH3 Agra to Mumbai
● NH 4 Mumbai to Chennai
● NH 5 Kolkata to Chennai
● NH 6 Surat to Kolkata
● NH-7 Varanasi to Kanyakumari (earlier the longest NH of India but now NH 44 is the longest from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari)
● NH-8 Delhi to Mumbai
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