Question

National highways are less by how many km with respect to state highways in 2016 ?

Answer 1

Step 1: Read the table:
The table gives the length of each road category in 2016.
National Highways are 101011 km and State Highways are 176166 km.

Step 2: Find the difference:
National highways are less than state highways, so we subtract the smaller number from the larger one.
176166 - 101011 = 75155.

Step 3: Check:
Add back: 101011 + 75155 = 176166. This matches the length of state highways.

Final Answer:
National highways are less than state highways by 75155 km.

Answer 2

Step 1: Read the table:
Major District Roads are 561940 km and State Highways are 176166 km.

Step 2: Find the difference:
Major district roads are more, so we subtract state highways from major district roads.
561940 - 176166 = 385774.

Step 3: Check:
Add back: 176166 + 385774 = 561940. This matches the length of major district roads.

Final Answer:
Major district roads are more than state highways by 385774 km.

Answer 3

Step 1: Read the table:
Rural Roads are 3935377 km out of a total of 4774494 km. That is about 82 percent of all roads.

Step 2: Find the reason:
India has about six lakh villages, and a large part of the population lives in them.
Every village needs a link to its fields, nearby villages, markets and towns, so a huge number of short local roads are needed.

Step 3: Support from policy:
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (started in 2000) was launched to connect villages with all-weather roads, which added further to this length.

Final Answer:
Rural roads form the largest category because the villages of India are very many and spread out, and each needs road links to markets and towns.