Consider the following statements with reference to the road network i...
Road Network in India
State Highways
- State Highways have the second-largest share in the road network in India, after the rural roads.
- As of 2019, the total length of State Highways in India is around 1.7 million km.
National Highways
- National Highways have the third-largest share in the road network in India, after the rural roads and State Highways.
- National Highways are maintained by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
- As of 2021, the total length of National Highways in India is around 142,126 km.
- National Highway 44 (NH 44) is not the longest-running National Highway in India. National Highway 7 (NH 7) is the longest-running National Highway in India, with a length of 2,369 km.
Golden Quadrilateral
- The Golden Quadrilateral is a network of National Highways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.
- It is India's first four-lane highway project and was launched by the government in 2001.
- The Golden Quadrilateral covers a total distance of around 5,846 km.
- It does not connect Kochi and Delhi.
Therefore, the correct statement is option B, which says only statement 2 is correct.
Consider the following statements with reference to the road network i...
- About 80% of the total road length are categorised as rural roads. The National Highways, State Highways and District Roads constitute 2%, 4% and 14% respectively. Hence statement 1 is not correct.
- National Highway 44 (NH 44) is the longest-running National Highway in India. It is 3,745 km long and covers the North-South Corridor of NHDP. It starts from Srinagar in the north and ends in Kanyakumari in the south. Hence statement 2 is correct.
- The Golden Quadrilateral is a national highway network connecting most of the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India. It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south). Other cities connected by this network include Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Balasore, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur, Durgapur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Pune, Kolhapur, Surat, Vijayawada, Ajmer, Vizag, Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Allahabad, Agra, Mathura, Dhanbad, Gandhinagar, Udaipur, and Vadodara. Hence statement 3 is not correct.
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