Indian Roadways
Ancient India has highways, caravan and trade routes even to Baluchistan via Iran. Lord Rama travelled on a known route from Ayodya (UP) to Sri Lanka. Buddhist text mentions trunk and other roads of 700 - 185 BC. In Ashoka's time roads led to all Buddhist sites and missionaries were sent as far as Kashmir and the deep south. Later Mughals and the British keep the roads in good condition. New roads are made to remote areas due to military and administrative reasons.
Travel by road is a common choice. India has 33,00,000 km of roads. All major cities in India are linked by National Highways from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. India has 56 National Highways with total length of 34,000 km and the longest is NH 7 (2369 km). State roadways and Private operators run regular bus services in most of the main routes. Luxury cars, imported cars and coaches of international standard can be hired.
World's highest road
Khardung la (5602 m on Leh-Panamik route), Kashmir.
Longest road in India
Grand Trunk Road (Kolkata to Amritsar).
National Highways
1 : Delhi-Ambala-Jalandhar-Amritsar-Waga Pak border : 456 km
2 : Delhi-Mathura-Agra-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi-Palsit-Bar-Kolkata : 1490 km
3 : Agra-Gwalior-Shivpuri-Indore-Dhule-Nasik-Thane-Mumbai : 1161 km
4 : Thane (NH 3)-Pune-Belgaum-Hubli-Bangalore-Ranipet-Chennai : 1235 km
5 : Baharagora (NH 6)-Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar-Vishakhapatnam-Vijaywada-Chennai : 1533 km
6 : Surat-Dhule-Nagpur-Raipur-Sambalpur-Baharagora-Kolkata : 1932 km
7 : Varanasi-Mangawan-Rewa-Jabalpur-Lukhana-Don-Nagpur-Hyderabad-Kurnool-Bangalore- Krishnagiri-Salem-Dindigul-Madurai-Kanyakumari : 2369 km
8 : Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Udaipur-Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Mumbai : 1428 km
9 : Pune-Sholapur-Hyderabad-Vijaywada : 791 km
10 : Delhi-Fazilka-Pak border : 403 km
11 : Agra-Jaipur-Bikaner : 582 km
12 : Jabalpur-Bhopal-Khilchipur-Aklera-Jhalwar-Kota-Bundi-Devil-Tonk-Jaipur : 890 km
13 : Sholapur-Chitradurga : 491 km
14 : Bewar-Sirohi-Radhanpur : 450 km
15 : Pathankot-Amritsar-Bhatinda-Ganganagar-Bikaner-Jaisalmer-Barmar-Samakhiali : 1526 km
16 : Nizamabad-Mancheri-Jagadalpur : 460 km
17 : Panvel-Mahad-Panaji-Karwar-Mangalore-Kannur-Kozhikode-Kuttipuram-Edapally near Kochi (NH 47) : 1269 km
18 : Kurnool (NH 7)-Nandyal-Cuddapah-Chittoor (NH 4) : 369 km
19 : Ghazipur-Balia-Patna : 240 km
20 : Pathankot-Mandi : 220 km
21 : Chandigarh (NH 22)-Ropar-Bilaspur-Mandi-Kullu-Manali : 323 km
22 : Ambala-Kalka-Shimla-Narkanda-Rampur-Shipki la, China border : 459 km
23 : Chas-Ranchi-Rourkela-Talhar (NH 42) : 459 km
24 : Delhi-Bareilly-Lucknow : 418 km
25 : Lucknow-Kanpur-Jhansi-Shivpuri : 319 km
26 : Jhansi-Lakhandon : 396 km
27 : Allahabad-Mangawan : 93 km
28 : Barauni (NH 31)-Muzzafarpur-Pipra-Gorakhpur-Lucknow : 570 km
29 : Gorakhpur-Ghazipur-Varanasi : 730 km
30 : Mohania (NH 2)-Patna- Bachtivarpur : 230 km
31 : Bahri (NH 2)-Bakhtiarpur-Mokameh-Purnea-Dalkota-Siliguri-Sivok-Cooch Behar-North Salmara-Nalbari-Charali Amingaon (NH 37) : 1125 km
32 : Gobindpur (NH 2)-Dhanbad-Jamshedpur : 179 km
33 : Barhi (NH 2)-Ranchi-Baharagora : 352 km
34 : Dalkoa-Berhampur-Barasat-Kolkatta : 443 km
35 : Barasat-Bangaon-Bangladesh border : 61 km
36 : Nowgong-Dabaka-Dimapur : 170 km
37 : Golapara (NH 31 B)-Guwahati-Jorhat-Kamargaon-Makaum-Saikhoaghat : 680 km
38 : Makum-Ledo-Lekhapani : 54 km
39 : Numaligarh-Imphal-Palei-Myanmar border : 436 km
40 : Jorhat-Shillong-Dawki, Bangladesh border : 161 km
41 : Kolaghat (NH 6)-Haldia port : 511 km
42 : Sambhalpur (NH 6)-Angul (NH 5) near Cuttack : 261 km
43 : Raipur-Vizianagaram (NH 5) : 551 km
44 : Shillong-Passi Badarpur-Agartala-Sabroom : 630 km
45 : Chennai-Tiruchirapalli-Dindigul : 387 km
46 : Krishnagiri-Ranipet : 132 km
47 : Salem-Coimbatore-Trissur-Ernakulam-Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari : 640 km
48 : Bangalore-Hassan-Mangalore : 328 km
49 : Kochi-Madurai-Dhanushkodi : 440 km
50 : Nashik-Pune (NH 4) : 192 km
51 : Paikan-Tura-Dalu : 149 km
52 : Baihata-Charali-Tezpur-Bander-Dewa-North Lakhimpur-Pasighat-Tezu-Sitapani (NH 37) : 850 km
53 : Badarpur (NH 44)-Jirighat-Imphal-Silchar : 320 km
54 : Silchar-Aizwal-Tuipang : 560 km
55 : Siliguri-Darjeeling : 77 km
56 : Lucknow-Varanasi : 285 km
Ropeways
1. Malampuzha, Kerala
2. Palani, Tamil Nadu
3. Raigad fort, Maharashtra
4. Udaipur, Rajasthan
5. Haridwar, Uttarakhand
6. Joshimath-Auli, Uttarakhand (Highest and longest in India)
7. Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
8. Gangtok, Sikkim
