Indian Road Network Class Access Controlled Expressways 4-6 lane Divided Highways (with service roads in congested

areas) National Highways State Highways Major district roads Rural & other roads Total (approx)

Length (km) over 600 km (370 mi) over 10,000 km (6,200 mi) 66,590 km (41,380 mi) 131,899 km (81,958 mi) 467,763 km (290,654 mi) 2,650,000 km (1,650,000 mi) 3,300,000 km (2,050,000 mi)

Period

Total Widening Widening Strengthening Major Length to Two to Four of Pavement Bridges National Lanes Lanes Highways* (km) 14,000 ** Nil 16,000 3,138 1,955 710 671 221 267 483 797 418 799 841 Nil 9,000 5371 3511 1109 1489 1087 169 302 51 91 14 17 1

1947- 69 24,000 1969- 90 33,612 1990- 97 34,298 1997- 02 58,112 2002- 03 58,112 2003- 04 65,569 2004- 05 65,569

* Length at the end of the period **Includes a length of 6,000 km which were already two lane at the time of declaration as national highways.

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Date Headquarters Divisions Established 1951, Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Central CR Mumbai November 5 Solapur, Nagpur Danapur, Dhanbad, East 2002, ECR Hajipur Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Central October 1 Sonpur Khurda Road, Sambalpur, East Coast ECoR 2003, April 1 Bhubaneshwar Visakhapatnam Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Eastern ER 1952, April Kolkata Malda North NCR 2003, April 1 Allahabad Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi Central North NER 1952 Gorakhpur Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi Eastern North 2002, NWR Jaipur Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur Western October 1 Northeast 1958,15th Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, NFR Guwahati Frontier Jan Lumding, Tinsukia 1952, April Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Northern NR Delhi 14 Lucknow, Moradabad Secunderabad, Hyderabad, South 1966, SCR Secunderabad Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Central October 2 Vijayawada South East SECR 2003, April 1 Bilaspur Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur Central South Adra, Chakradharpur, SER 1955 Kolkata Eastern Kharagpur, Ranchi South SWR 2003, April 1 Hubli Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore Western Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, 1951, April Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Southern SR Chennai 14 Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) West WCR 2003, April 1 Jabalpur Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota Central Mumbai Central, Ratlam, 1951, Western WR Mumbai Ahmedabad, Rajkot, November 5 Bhavnagar, Vadodara Name Abbr.

Airports Airports with paved with unpaved runways (2008 est.) runways (2008 est.) 3,047 m (9,997 ft) or more 19 0 2,438 m (7,999 ft)3,047 m (9,997 ft) 55 1 1,524 m (5,000 ft)2,438 m (7,999 ft) 77 7 914 m (2,999 ft)1,524 m (5,000 ft) 84 39 Under 914 m (2,999 ft) 16 47 Total 251 94 Length of runways