Roads and Inland Waterways

Question 1

Cities constituting North-South and East-West corridors

Answer 1

N-S > Srinagar to Kanniyakumari (one spur connects to Kochi to Ernakulam: NH 47]

E-W > Porbandar to Silchar (Assam)

Question 2

Shortest NH?

Answer 2

NH 47: Ernakulam to Kochi

Question 3

Longest NH?

Answer 3

NH 7: Srinagar to Kanniyakumari

Question 4

Highest NH?

Answer 4

NH 21: Leh-Manali

Question 5

Name/locate (NW) National Waterway-1

Answer 5

Allahabad-Haldia : Gnga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river, UP-Bihar-WB; 1620km; since 1986

Question 6

Which NW does Sadiya-Dhubri stretch constitute and of which river?

Answer 6

NW-2 of the Brahmaputra river, Assam; 891km; 1988

Question 7

Name/locate NW-3

Answer 7

Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Chmpakara and Udyogmandal canals, Kerala; total 205km; declared as NW-3 in 1993

Question 8

Name/locate NW-4

Answer 8

NW-4 = [(Kakinada-Pondicherry stretch of canals + Kaluvelly tank) + (Bhadrachalam-Rajahmundry stretch of river Godavari) + (Wazirabad-Vijayawada stretch of river Krishna)] = 1095km; declared NW-4 in 2008

Question 9

Name/locate NW-5

Answer 9

Talcher to Mangalgadi (Brahmani river system, Odisha)
+
Geonkhali to Paradeep [Hijili Tidal Canal (WB)+East Coast Canal+Odisha Coast Canal+Matai river+Dhamra river+Mahanadi Delta (Odisha)]
=
623km; declared NW-5 in 2008

Question 10

Name/Locate NW-6

Answer 10

Lakhipur-Bhanga stretch of Barak river (Manipur, Mizoram, Assam), unified development of Northeastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh; declared NW-6 in 2013

Question 11

Name the 4 cities and 4 NHs constituting four corners of “Golden Quadrilateral”

Answer 11

DELHI = NH2 = KOLKATA = NH5 = CHENNAI = NH4 = MUMBAI = NH 8 = Ahmedabad

Question 12

Locate NH1

Answer 12

Jalandhar to Uri

Question 13

Which authority is in charge of inland waterways in India? and what are its functions?

Answer 13

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is the statutory authority in charge of the waterways in India. Headquartered in Noida, UP.
It does the function of building the necessary infrastructure in these waterways, surveying the economic feasibility of the new projects and also administration and regulation.

Question 14

What is Golden Quadrilateral?

Answer 14

The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is the highway network connecting the four metros in India – i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The spin-offs of GQ also connects cities like Bangalore, Pune and Ahmedabad. The total length of GQ is 5846kms.

Question 15

Brief note of Highway types in India

Answer 15

1. National Highways (NH):
   These are major highways in India that provide connectivity to all cities and states. NHs are maintained by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). National highways spans over 70,000 kms and even the NS-EW corridor and GQ are formed by many such highways.
2. State Highways (SH):
   State highways spans over 150,000kms in length and are managed by the state governments to provide accessibility and city/town inter-connectivity within each state.
3. Great Asian Highways (AH):
   The Asian Highway (AH) project, also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to improve the highway systems in Asia.

It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects.

Question 16

Brief note of Asian Highway Network in India

Answer 16

Great Asian Highways (AH):

The Asian Highway (AH) project, also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to improve the highway systems in Asia.

It is one of the three pillars of the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project, endorsed by the ESCAP commission at its 48th session in 1992, comprising Asian Highway, Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) and facilitation of land transport projects.

Asian Highway 1 (AH1):

Is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running 20,557 kilometres (12,774 mi) from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80.

Asian Highway 42 (AH42):

Is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running 3,754 kilometres (2,333 mi) from AH5 in Lanzhou, China to AH1 in Barhi, Jharkhand, India.

It passes through the countries of China, Nepal,[3] and India. It is the nearest Asian Highway to Mount Everest.

AH43 :

Bengaluru-KarnatakaIndia (on AH1) to Matara, Sri Lanka

AH45:

Kolkata, India (on AH1) to Bengaluru, India (on AH43/AH47)

AH46:

Named Great Eastern Highway within India from its East Coast to West Coast - Hazirah-Surat-Jalgaon-Howrah(Kolkata) till AH2.

AH47:

Gwalior, India (on AH43) to Bengaluru, India (on AH43/AH45)

Question 17

Which is longest rout of Asian Highway Network?

Answer 17

Asian Highway 1 (AH1):

Is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running 20,557 kilometres (12,774 mi) from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80.

Question 18

Which Asian Highway is named as a Great Eastern Highway?

Answer 18

AH46:
1,967 km (1,222 miles); named Great Eastern Highway within India from its East Coast to West Coast - Hazirah-Surat-Jalgaon-Howrah(Kolkata) till AH2.

Question 19

According to DoRTH (Department of Road Transport and Highway of India), what will be the logic for representing North-South highway numbers?

Answer 19

They’ll be EVEN numbers and North-South highways will increase their numbers from East to West.

For example, a particular North-South highway in Central India or Western India will have a higher number than the one in East India. To be specific, now you can guess that NH4 is somewhere in East India where as highway 44 may be towards the west of India while both runs north-south due to the even numbering

Question 20

According to DoRTH (Department of Road Transport and Highway of India), what will be the logic for representing the East-West highway numbers?

Answer 20

They’ll be ODD numbers and East-West highways will increase their numbers as we move from North to South.
By this logic NH1 will be running East-West somewhere in North India while NH 83 may be somewhere down south. Of course, there may be a minor confusion among some roads that may be running diagonally in stretches

Question 21

According to DoRTH (Department of Road Transport and Highway of India), how many digits a major highway number will carry?

Answer 21

All major highway will be SINGLE OR DOUBLE DIGIT

Question 22

According to DoRTH (Department of Road Transport and Highway of India), what is the logic of THREE DIGIT NUMBERED highways?

Answer 22

THREE digit numbered highways are secondary routes or branches of a main highway.
For example, 144, 244, 344 etc will be the branches of the main National highway 44. Please note that since NH44 (NS Corridor) runs the length of the country from North to South a side shoot say 144 may be up north while something like 944 may be down south

Question 23

According to DoRTH (Department of Road Transport and Highway of India), what is the logic behind suffixes A, B, C, D etc ?

Answer 23

Suffixes A, B, C, D etc are added to the three digit sub highways to indicate very small spin-offs or stretches of sub-highways. For example, 966A, 527B etc

Question 24

Which National Waterway flows through Andhra Pradesh, TN, Puducherry?

Answer 24

NW-4:

AP > Kakinada canal, Eluru canal, Commamur canal, Godavari river, Krishna river and North Buckingham canal

TN > North Buckingham canal (AP-TN border at Tada to Basin Bridge), South Buckingham canal and Kalluvelly Tank

Puducherry > Southern portion of Kalluvelly tank – Pondicherry link