Top 10 highways in first ever NHAI rankings

04 Mar 2021 Editorial Team

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) released the first ever national highways rankings. Rankings have been compiled based on 40 parameters, including time taken at the toll plaza, operations speed, quality of signages, accidents per km per year, among others.

The objective of the ratings is to identify interventions needed to improve efficiency and commute experience on the national highway corridors. NHAI told the media that the national highways would be rated regularly from now on a six month basis to give time for their improvement. As we have reported, highways managed by L&T, IRB Infra topped the NHAI rankings list. Navayuga, Patel Engineering(in JV) and Dilip Buildcon also feature in the top 10.

Rank	National Highway No.	Name of highway section	Length (in km)	Highway building contractor	Project Implementation Unit (PIU)
1	NH-48	6-lane Ahmedabad-Vadodara	102.30	IRB Infra	PIU-Ahmedabad
2	NH-66	Goa-Karnataka border to Kundapur	141.00	IRB Infra	PIU-Mangalore
3	NE-1	4-lane Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway	93.30	IRB Infra	PIU-Ahmedabad
4	NH-130	Simga to Sargaon	42.44	L&T	PIU-Bilaspur
5	NH-211	Solapur-Yedashi	98.71	IRB Infra	PIU-Solapur
6	NH-48	Krishnagiri to Walajahpet	148.30	L&T	PIU-Krishnagiri
7	NH47	Godhra to Gujarat/MP Border	87.10	Godhra Expressways (SPV)	PIU-Godhra
8	NH-4	Access controlled highway from Bengaluru to Nelamangala	19.50	Navayuga road projects	PIU-Bengaluru
9	NH-44	Islam Nagar-Kadthal	53.03	JV-Patel Engineering and KNR constructions	PIU-Nirmal
10	NH-33	Mahulia to Bahragora and Baharagora to Chichira	71.61	Dilip Buildcon	PIU-Jamshedpur

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