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 2020, 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 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 Highways in India, by state and union territories State/Union Territory Single lane (km) Intermediate lane (km) Double lane (km) Multi-lane (km) Total (km) Andhra Pradesh 2,092 1,001 6,902 236 10,518 Arunachal Pradesh 0 Assam 3,134 Bihar 3,766 Chhattisgarh 3,419 Delhi Goa 279 Gujarat 19,761 Haryana 2,523 Himachal Pradesh 1,824 Jammu and Kashmir 67 Jharkhand 1,886 Karnataka 20,738 Kerala 4,341 Madhya Pradesh 8,728 Maharashtra 33,705 Manipur 1,137 Meghalaya 1,134 Mizoram 259 Nagaland 404 Odisha 3,806 Punjab 1,393 Puducherry 637 Rajasthan 11,716 Sikkim 179 Tamil Nadu 1,743 6,586 15,267 3,389 26,985 Telangana 3,260 Tripura 689 Uttar Pradesh 8,432 Uttarakhand 1,576 West Bengal 2,991
See also Roads in India New Zealand state highway network State highways (Italy)
References
External links
2010 list of state highways under implementation - Published by the Government of India