KBC 14 2022 Daily Pari Quiz: In India, the National Highway milestones are painted with which of the following colors?
Yellow
Green
Orange
Black
Answer: Yellow
The Yellow color milestones are used for National Highways. National highways are those roads whose construction and maintenance are done by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
India has a 151,019km long national highway network as of 2021. They connect different cities in different states. National Highways constituted 2.7% of India’s total road network. They are designated with NH. North-South-East-West Corridor (NS-EW corridor) and Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) are formed by these highways.
The longest National Highway in India is NH44. This runs between Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, and Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and covers a distance of 3,806 kilometers (2.365 miles).
The shortest National Highway in India is NH966B in Kerala. This spans only six kilometers (3.7 miles). It stretches from Ernakulam to Kochi.
The green-colored milestones on the side of the roads mean that you are traveling on the state highway. It is the responsibility of the state government to construct and maintain state highways. As per the records of the Government of India, the state government highways connects the cities of that state. As per the records of the year 2016, the total length of state highways in the country at present is 1.76 lakh km.
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