Consider the following pairs : | National Highway | Cities Connected | |------------------|--------------------------| | 1. NH 4 | Chennai and Hyderabad | | 2. NH 6 | Mumbai and Kolkata | | 3. NH 15 | Ahmedabad and Jodhpur | Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

QUESTION

Medium

Indian Geography

Prelims 2014

Consider the following pairs :

National Highway	Cities Connected
1. NH 4	Chennai and Hyderabad
2. NH 6	Mumbai and Kolkata
3. NH 15	Ahmedabad and Jodhpur

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

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Explanation

National Highway 4 or NH 4: It is 230.7 km in length. This highway is known as the Andaman Trunk Road (The Great Andaman Trunk Road).

Pair 1 is incorrect: A stretch of national highway from Mumbai to Pune to Hubli to Bangalore to Chennai was earlier called NH 4 before the renumbering of national highways in the year 2010. The former NH 4 is now renumbered as NH 48.

Pair 2 is incorrect: National Highway 6 is a national highway in India running from Jorabat in Meghalaya to Selling in Mizoram. The highway passes through the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Mizoram.

Pair 3 is incorrect: National Highway 15 (NH 15) starts from Baihata in Assam and terminates at Wakro in Arunachal Pradesh.

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