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National Highway 127B (India)
National Highway 127B, commonly called NH 127B is a National Highway in North East India that connects Srirampur in Assam to Nongston in Meghalaya. Route Srimrampur – Dhuburi - Phulbari - Tura - Rongram - Ronjeng - Nongston. Junctions * Terminal with National Highway 15 near Srimrampur. * Junction with National Highway 17 near Gauripur * Junction with National Highway 217 near Tura * Terminal with National Highway 215 near Nongston. Geography Major portion of NH-127B, over 300 km lies in state of Meghalaya. This highway passes through four districts, namely, West Garo, South West Garo, East Garo and West Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. The alignment of the road in Meghalaya starts initially from rolling terrain and then major portion passes mainly through a hilly terrain and the road has to cross numerous rivers and streams. See also * List of National Highways in India by highway number * List of National Highways in India by state List of the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a wide strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese and Boro are the official languages of Assam, while Bengali is an additional official language in the Barak Valley. Assam is known for Assam tea and Assam silk. The state was the first site for oil drilling in Asia. Assam is home to the one-horned Indian rhinoceros, along with the wild water buffalo, pygmy hog, tiger and various species of Asiatic birds, and provides one of the last wild habitats for the Asian elephant. The Assamese economy is aided by wildlife tourism to Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park, which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauripur, India
Gauripur (IPA: ˈgɑʊrɪˌpʊə or ˈgɔːrɪˌpʊə) is a semi-urban town under Gauripur Town Committee in the Dhubri district in the state of Assam, India. Geography Gauripur is located at in the state of Assam. Its average elevation is 26 metres (85 feet). The nearest airport is situated at Rupsi, adjacent to the village Khudimari. Gauripur is a small town on the western side of the district headquarters Dhubri. The main town is near the eastern shore of the river Gadadhar. There is a lake on its north-western side named Laokhowa beel and on the north-eastern side, on the bank of Gadadhar, is a small hill-top called Matiabagh, on which the palace "Hawakhana" erected by the Zamindar of Gauripur is found. On the other side of the Gadadhar river is the famous village Asharikandi, of international fame for its terrakota industry. The Gauripur town is served by the Northeast Frontier Railway of the Indian Railway network. The national highway 31 runs across the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highways In India
The National highways in India are a network of trunk roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. National highways have flyover access or some controlled-access, where entrance and exit is through the side of the flyover, at each intersection of highways flyovers are provided to bypass the city/town/village traffic and these highways are designed for speed of 100 km/hr. Some national highways have interchanges in between but they don't have total controlled-access throughout the highways. It is constructed and managed by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), and the public works departments (PWD) of state governments. Currently, the longest National Highway in India is National Highway 44 at 4,112 km (2,555 mi). The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) are the nodal agencies re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of National Highways In India By State
List of the new National Highway numbers (state-wise). Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Mizoram Meghalaya Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of National Highways In India By Highway Number
On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This was adopted to ensure more flexibility and consistency in the numbering of existing and new national highways. As per the new numbering system: * All north-south oriented highways will have even numbers increasing from the east to the west. * All east-west oriented highways will have odd numbers increasing from the north to the south. * All major Highways will be single digit or double digit in number. * Three-digit numbered highways are secondary routes or branches of a main highway. The secondary route number is prefixed to the number of the main highway. For example 244, 344 etc. will be the branches of the main NH44. * Suffixes A, B, C, D etc. are added to the three-digit sub highways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Khasi Hills District
West Khasi Hills is an administrative district in the state of Meghalaya in India. History The West Khasi Hills district was carved out of the Khasi Hills district, which was divided into West and East Khasi Hills districts on 28 October 1976. Geography The district headquarters is located at Nongstoin. The district occupies an area of 5247 km2 Divisions Administrative divisions West Khasi Hills district is divided into four blocks: Demographics According to the 2011 census of India, 2011 census West Khasi Hills district has a Demographics of India, population of 383,461, roughly equal to the nation of Maldives. This gives it a ranking of 562th in India (out of a total of Districts of India, 640). The district has a population density of . Its Family planning in India, population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 30.25%. West Khasi Hills has a sex ratio of 980 Women in India, females for every 1000 males, and a Literacy in India, literacy rate of 77.87%. The d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Garo Hills District
East Garo Hills is an administrative district in the state of Meghalaya in India. History The East Garo Hills district was formed in 1976, after the erstwhile Garo Hills district of Meghalaya was re-organised with a view to bring the administration closer to the people. The district headquarters-complex of the district, christened as Williamnagar after the name of Captain Williamson A. Sangma the founder Chief Minister of the State of Meghalaya. Williamnagar is located on the vast plainlands along the bank of the Simsang River, at Simsanggre. These plainlands are in a sense historical, as it was here that the Garos made their last major resistance to the British intrusion into Garo Hills during the year 1837. The legendary Garo leader Pa Togan Nengminja Sangma was felled by the British, in skirmish, at Chisobibra, quite close to Wiliamnagar, on 12 December 1837. Geography The district headquarters are located at Williamnagar. The district occupies an area of 2603 km². Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West Garo Hills District
Southwest Garo Hills is an administrative district in the State of Meghalaya, India. The Ampati Civil Sub-Division is upgraded to a full fledged district as South West Garo Hills, on 7 August 2012 with its headquarters at Ampati. It was inaugurated by Dr. Mukul Sangma, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Meghalaya, India. History and Creation The South West Garo Hills is carved out of present West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India. The District comprises all the villages falling under the two Community and Rural Development Blocks, viz. Betasing and Zikzak Community and Rural Development Blocks, including 33 (thirty-three) villages under Mukdangra Gram Sevak (GS) Circle and Garobadha Gram Sevak Circle of Selsella Community & Rural Development Block, 24 (twenty-four) villages under Okkapara Songma Gram Sevak Circle and Chengkuregre Gram Sevak Circle of Gambeggre Community & Rural Development Block, 13 (thirteen) villages under Jarangkona Gram Sevak Circle of Dalu Community & Rural Development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Garo Hills District
West Garo Hills is an administrative district in Garo Hills of the state of Meghalaya in India. Tura town is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of 3714 km². In 2011 its population was 643,291. As of 2011 it is the second most populous district of Meghalaya (out of 7), after East Khasi Hills. West Garo Hills district is located at the westernmost part of Meghalaya. The district is bounded by East Garo Hills district on the east, by South Garo Hills district on the south-east, Goalpara district of Assam state on the north and north-west and Bangladesh on the south. History In 22 October 1976 the Garo Hills district was bifurcated into two districts: West Garo Hills district and East Garo Hills district. The West Garo Hills district was further divided into two districts: the present day West Garo Hills district and South Garo Hills district in June 1992. Economy In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named West Garo Hills one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 215 (India)
National Highway 215 (NH 215) is a National Highway in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so .... It starts from Mahadevpur and terminates at Dibrugarh in the state of Assam. References National highways in India Transport in Dibrugarh {{India-NH-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 217 (India)
National Highway 217 commonly referred to as NH 217, is a national highway in India. This route was earlier part of old national highways 51 and 62. It is a secondary route of National Highway 17. NH-217 runs through the states of Assam and Meghalaya in India. Route NH217 connects Paikan, Tura, Dalu, Baghmara, Rongjeng, Damra and Dudhnoi in the states of Assam and Meghalaya in India. Junctions : Terminal near Paikan. : near Tura. : near Lower Nengkhra. : Terminal near Dudhnoi. History In 2021, a new species of gecko was found on the highway, Cyrtodactylus karsticolus. See also * List of National Highways in India * List of National Highways in India by state List of the new National Highway numbers (state-wise). Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa ... References External links NH 217 on OpenStreetM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Highway 17 (India)
National Highway 17 (NH 17) is a National Highway in India running from Sevoke in West Bengal to Guwahati in Assam. Route It starts from its junction with NH-10 at * Sevoke, Darjeeling district and connects * Mongpong, Kalimpong district, * Bagrakote, Chalsa, Nagarkata, Goyerkata, Jalpaiguri district, * Birpara, Falakata, Sonarpur Alipurduar district * Coochbehar, Tufanganj Cooch Behar district in West Bengal; and further * Agomani, Golakganj, Bilasipara, Dhubri district, * North Salmara, Bongaigaon district, * Goalpara, Goalpara district, * Bijoynagar, Boko, Kamrup Metropolitan district. and terminating at its junction with NH-27 near Guwahati in Assam Junctions : Terminal at Sevoke. : Terminal near Bagrakote. : Terminal near Chalsa. : Terminal near Binnaguri. : near Guwahati. See also *List of National Highways in India by highway number *National Highways Development Project The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) is a project to up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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