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State highways in India

Type of road in India, maintained by a state government

Summary

Type of road in India, maintained by a state government

In India, this is the network of roads maintained by the state governments. These roads are constructed and managed by the states' Public Works Department. The state highways are usually roads that link important cities, towns and district headquarters within the state and connect them with National Highways or state highways of neighbouring states.

As of 31 March 2016, the total length of state highways was 176,166 km. As of 31 March 2016, Maharashtra had the largest share in the total length of SH roads (22.14%), followed by Karnataka (11.11%), Gujarat (9.76%), Rajasthan (8.62%) and Tamil Nadu (6.67%).

History

Independent of the NHDP program, state governments have been implementing a number of state highway projects since 2000. By 2010, state highway projects worth $1.7 billion had been completed, and an additional $11.4 billion worth of projects were under implementation.

Bharatmala, a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India with a target of constructing 83677 km of new highways, has been started in 2018. Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34,800 km of highways (including the remaining projects under NHDP) at an estimated cost of by 2021–22.

State/Union Territory	Single lane (km)	Intermediate lane (km)	Double lane (km)	Multi-lane (km)
2,092	1,001	6,902	236	10,518
				0
				3,134
				3,766
				3,419
				279
				19,761
				2,523
				1,824
				67
				1,886
				20,738
				4,341
				8,728
				33,705
				1,137
				1,134
				259
				404
				3,806
				1,393
				637
				11,716
				179
1,743	6,586	15,267	3,389	26,985
				3,260
				689
				8,432
				1,576
				2,991

References

"NH and SHs". MOSPI.
(29 April 2015). "Bharat Mala: PM Narendra Modi's planned Rs 14,000 crore road from Gujarat to Mizoram". [[The Economic Times]].
(9 January 2016). "Ministry proposes construction of 20,000 km of roads under Bharat Mala project". [[The Economic Times]].
"Bharatmala Pariyojana - A Stepping Stone towards New India {{!}} National Portal of India".
"State road network". AP Roads and Buildings Department.
"State Highways, District wise: Surface Feature and Carriageway Width". [[Public Works Department, Karnataka]].
Highways and Minor Ports Department. (2013). "Table 4: Lanewise Details of Government Roads in Tamilnadu". Government of Tamilnadu.
"Road Statistics".

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