Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Hon'ble Minister

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

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Acts

Over years the ministry has passed several acts to maintain law and order in Road Transport in the country

  • The Road Transport Corporations Act,1950
  • The National Highways Act,1956
  • The Motor Vehicles Act,1988
  • The National Highways Authority of India Act,1988

Statistics

India has one of the largest road networks of over 4.885 million km consisting of

Road Length Distribution
Roads Length
National Highways/Expressways 92,851 km
State Highways 1,42,687 km
Other Roads 46,49,462 km
Total 48,85,000 km

The total road length of India had grown more than 11 times in 60 years from 1951-2011 also the length of the surfaced roads ha increased about 16 times over the same period.The connectivity in India has tremendously improved due to formation of new surface roads.[6]

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2010-11
  •   Total length of roads (in lakh km)
  •   Total length of surfaced roads (in lakh km)