{"id":8565,"date":"2023-04-17T06:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:16:55","slug":"national-highways-authority-of-india-nhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-highways-authority-of-india-nhai\/","title":{"rendered":"National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Highways Authority of India (NHAI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NHAI is India\u2019s premier highway infrastructure creator entrusted with developing, maintaining, and managing National Highways.<\/li>\n<li>It is a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.<\/li>\n<li>It was constituted under National Highways Authority of India Act, 1998 and made operational in February 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Composition: It consists of a full time Chairman, and not more than five full time Members and four part time Members who are appointed by the Central Government.<\/li>\n<li>The part time Members are the Secretary (RT&amp;H), Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary (Planning) and DG (RD) &amp; SS.<\/li>\n<li>NHAI has technical, Finance, Administrative and Vigilance Wings at its Headquarters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which is India&#8217;s longest National Highway?<\/h3>\n<p>National Highway 44 \u2013 It is the longest national highway in India with a length of 4,112 km running from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the South. This highway connects 11 states and about 30 important cities with each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2023\/apr\/17\/nhai-issues-norms-for-stone-laying-functions-to-be-attended-by-pm-2566675.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NHAI issues norms for stone-laying functions to be attended by PM<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHAI is  India\u2019s premier highway infrastructure creator entrusted with developing, maintaining, and managing National Highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}