Which is the Longest National Highway in India?
India is considered to be the second fastest developing country in the world. It has brought changes in all fields like industry, education, public affairs, fashion and many more. There are about 2 million kilometres of roads in India. There are various problems with the roads like bad quality of material which is used, poor calculations before building them and many more. The most important roads are the National Highways which are constructed and maintained by the central government.
There are various national highways in India. Some of the important ones are NH1 and NH2 which together form the Grand Trunk Road, NH44 which is the longest national highway in India.
India’s longest national highway, National Highway 44, runs from north to south. Starting from Srinagar and ending on Kanyakumari, it is maintained by National Highway Public Development (NHPD). It crosses many states like Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, UP, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and many more in between.
The highway connects many cities starting from Srinagar and ending at Kanyakumari. Some of the cities in between are Jammu, Jalandhar, Ambala, Panipat, Mathura, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Adilabad, Dichpally, Hyderabad, Mahbubnagar, Anantpur, Bangalore, Salem, Karur, Madurai, etc. One of the recent additions to the highway was the Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, inaugurated by Prime Minster, Mr. Narendra Modi.
There is a whole another side to this highway altogether. In a small village, Peddakunta, it is believed that there is some curse or a negative force that causes the most disastrous events. After a bypass was built years ago, there have been many hit and run cases in the village of Peddakunta.
Peddakunta has lost all the men of the village except one male adult who has lost his wife on the same highway. All the accidents have taken place around the same place where the bypass meets the village path and hence, they have become unavoidable.
The reason leading to the hit and run cases is the location of the village headquarters which is located on the other side. Any man who has tried to go to the other side is dead.
Therefore, National Highway 44 is one of the most significant highways in India and the longest one as well.
Team at World Infi