There are a total of 58 lakh 98 thousand kilometers of road network in India. Which includes all rural roads, national highways, state highways and expressways. To keep information on all these roads, the government implements Milestones of different colors.
New Delhi. Traveling on the road every day, you will be seen on the edge of different colors Milestones. But have you ever noticed that, Orange, Yellow, Black or Blue strip and Green color Milestones are attached on the road. If you have seen such Milestones, have you thought about them, why are the Milestones on the edge of the road so many colors?
Explain that there are a total of 58 lakh 98 thousand kilometers of road network in India. Which includes all rural roads, national highways, state highways and expressways. To keep information on all these roads, the government implements Milestones of different colors. So that people know during the journey that, after all, they are walking on the Grimad road or walking on the expressway. Let’s know about the color of Milestones …
Orange colored Milestones – If you find yellow colored Milestones on the side of the road, then you are walking on the rural road. These roads have been built under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana and Jawaharlal Nehru Rozgar Yojana. Explain that there are 3 lakh 93 thousand rural road networks in the country. With which all the villages of the country connect with the cities.
Yellow colored Milestones – Milestones of this color are planted on the National Highway. If you find yellow colored Milestones on the side of the road, then you understand that you are walking on the National Highway. Explain that by 2021, a total of 1,51,019 km of national highways had been constructed in the country.
Milestones of black and blue strip -If you find Milestones with black and blue color strips on the side of the road, then you understand that you are walking on the road of the city or district. Let us tell you that there is a network of 5 lakh 61 thousand 940 km urban roads in the country.
Green Kal Milestones – Such Milestones are planted on the state highways. Those who connect one city to another city. According to the figures of 2016, there was a network of 1 lakh 76 thousand 166 km of state highways in the country. At the same time, tell you that in British time, the Zero mile center was established in Nagpur. The distance from which all cities are calculated.
