DO YOU KNOW? 

 ABOUT THE MILESTONE  COLOUR CODES

Yellow strip for National highways

The National Highways network of India is a network of major roads that is owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and constructed by the NHAI and PWDs.  NHAI is the nodal agency responsible for building, upgrading, and maintaining most of the National Highways. National Highways (NH) connecting all the major cities and States capitals.

Green strip for State highways

State highways in India are laid and maintained by the state governments. It only links a state capital with a different district. It is constructed and maintained by the states' PWDs. the state highways are usually roads that link important cities, towns and district headquarters within the state and connect them with National Highways or highways of neighboring states.

Black  strip for city/districts road 

These are important roads within a district, connecting areas of production with markets and connecting them with the state highways and National Highways; they are maintained by the Zila Parishad These roads also connect Taluka headquarters and rural areas to district headquarters within the state.

Orange  strip for rural roads

These roads are in poor shape, affecting the rural population's quality of life. rural roads built under the Jawahar rozgar yojana infrastructure program and (NREGA )National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005. For the development of these rural roads,  (PGMSY; Prime Minister's Rural Roads Scheme) was launched in December 2000 by the Indian government to provide connectivity to isolated rural habitations. The scheme envisions that these roads will be constructed and maintained by the village panchayats.