Which is the longest single stretch National Highway in INDIA?
The list of National Highways in India gives a region wide listing of the Indian Highways, a class of roads maintained by the National Highways Authority of India. These are the main long-distance roadways in India and one of the highly used means of transport in India. They play a significant role in the Indian economy. The National Highways, the majority 2 laned (one in each direction), constitute a total of about 58,000 km, of which 4,885 km are median-separated express highways. In some more developed areas it may broaden to 4 lanes. Closer to big cities, highways can even be of 8 lanes. Highways in India are around 2% of the total road network in India, but carries nearly 40% of the total road traffic. The National Highways (Amendment) Bill, 1995, provides for private investment in the building and maintenance of these arteries of India. The longest NH is the NH7 which is from from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to Kanyakumari at the southern most point of the Indian mainland, in Tamil
