How Many National Highways are There in India

Team Careers360Updated on 28 Mar 2023, 05:02 PM IST

Introduction

By today there are 599 National Highways in India. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(MoRTH) is the government agency responsible for the development and maintenance of national highways in India. We can visit their website at https://morth.gov.in/ to find information about the number of national highways in India. As of 2021, the total length of the National Highways in India was approximately 1,32,899 kilometres. This information may have changed since 2021, as the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is responsible for the development and maintenance of national highways in India and the network of national highways may have expanded or changed since then.

List of Important National Highways in India

In the following table, we have discussed states and their respective major national highways. The information provided below is authentic as we have found this information from MoRTH.

Old National Highway Number	New National Highway Number	Serial No. in NH Act, 1956	States/UTs Through which it Passes
NH 38 and NH 153	NH 315	45	Assam, Arunachal Pradesh
NH 152	NH 127 A	87	Assam
NH 79	NH 156	184	Rajasthan
NH 56	NH 731	110	Uttar Pradesh
NH 55	NH 110	34	West Bengal
NH 47 C	NH 966 A	204	Kerala
NH 47 A	NH 966 B	205	Kerala
NH 47	NH 544	147	Kerala, Tamil Nadu
NH 39	NH 129	98	Assam, Nagaland
NH 35	NH 112	37	West Bengal
NH 30	NH 319	65	Bihar
NH 24	NH 530		Uttar Pradesh
NH 23	NH 320	71	Jharkhand
NH 21 NH 22 NH 95	NH 5	13	Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab
NH 18 NH 4	NH 40	136	Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
NH 12	NH 45	336	Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh
NH 11 A	NH 148	158	Rajasthan
NH 11	NH 21	73	Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
NH 9	NH 65	196	Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana
NH 8 D	NH 151	171	Gujarat
NH 8 C	NH 147	154	Gujarat
NH 8 A	NH 41	139	Gujarat
NH 8	NH 48 (Golden Quadrilateral)	157	Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu
NH 7 A	NH 138	131	Tamil Nadu
NH 7	NH 135	123	Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh
NH 5 NH 6 NH 60 NH 217	NH 16 (Golden Quadrilateral)	49	Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
NH 4 B	NH 348	161	Maharashtra
NH 4 A	NH 748	165	Goa, Karnataka
NH 223	NH 4	12	Andaman & Nicobar Islands
NH 3 NH 50	NH 60	188	Maharashtra
NH 2B	NH 114	40	West Bengal
NH 2A	NH 519	66	Uttar Pradesh
NH 2	NH 19 (Golden Quadrilateral)	63	Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
NH 1 B	NH 244	144	Jammu & Kashmir
NH 1 A and NH 1 D	NH 1	1	Jammu & Kashmir

State-Wise Length of National Highways

In the below-given table, we have discussed each state with their respective length of National Highways.

State	Length of National Highways (Kms)
Andhra Pradesh	6529.5
Arunachal Pradesh	2537.4
Assam	3908.5
Bihar	5030.6
Chattisgarh	3605.8
Goa	292.9
Gujarat	6635
Haryana	3097.6
Himachal Pradesh	2606.9
Jharkhand	3366.8
Karnataka	7334.8
Kerala	1781.6
Madhya Pradesh	8772.3
Maharashtra	17756.6
Manipur	1750.3
Meghalaya	1155.6
Mizoram	1422.5
Nagaland	1547.7
Odisha	5761.5
Punjab	3769.5
Rajasthan	9988.8
Sikkim	463
Tami Nadu	6741.5
Telangana	3795.5
Tripura	853.8
Uttar Pradesh	11736.8
Uttarakhand	2949.3
West Bengal	3664.5

Points to Ponder About National Highways in India

The maintenance and management of the National Highways of India are handled by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The responsibility for the development of National Highways comes under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Bharatmala Project is launched by the government for developing Economic Corridors which are about 26,000 km long.

Notes

As per the old numbering system of National Highways in India NH-44 is the longest National Highway in India.
There are a total of 599 National Highways in India according to the Ministry of Road, Transport, and Highways.
The length of the National Highway of Gujarat is 6635 km.
Goa has the shortest length of the National Highway and it's 292.9 km long.
The total length of the National Highways of India is 1,32,899 kilometres