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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Hill Highway (Kerala), Kerala Public Works Department, List of state highways in Kerala, Main Central Road, Main Eastern Highway, Roads and Bridges Development Corporation, Roads in Kerala, State Highway 10 (Kerala), State Highway 11 (Kerala), State Highway 12 (Kerala), State Highway 14 (Kerala), State Highway 15 (Kerala), State Highway 16 (Kerala), State Highway 17 (Kerala), State Highway 18 (Kerala), State Highway 19 (Kerala), State Highway 21 (Kerala), State Highway 22 (Kerala), State Highway 23 (Kerala), State Highway 25 (Kerala), State Highway 26 (Kerala), State Highway 27 (Kerala), State Highway 28 (Kerala), State Highway 29 (Kerala), State Highway 2 (Kerala), State Highway 30 (Kerala), State Highway 31 (Kerala), State Highway 32 (Kerala), State Highway 33 (Kerala), State Highway 34 (Kerala), State Highway 36 (Kerala), State Highway 37 (Kerala), State Highway 38 (Kerala), State Highway 39 (Kerala), State Highway 3 (Kerala), State Highway 40 (Kerala), State Highway 41 (Kerala), State Highway 42 (Kerala), State Highway 43 (Kerala), State Highway 44 (Kerala), State Highway 45 (Kerala), State Highway 46 (Kerala), State Highway 47 (Kerala), State Highway 48 (Kerala), State Highway 49 (Kerala), State Highway 50 (Kerala), State Highway 51 (Kerala), State Highway 52 (Kerala), State Highway 53 (Kerala), State Highway 54 (Kerala), State Highway 55 (Kerala), State Highway 56 (Kerala), State Highway 57 (Kerala), State Highway 58 (Kerala), State Highway 5 (Kerala), State Highway 60 (Kerala), State Highway 61 (Kerala), State Highway 62 (Kerala), State Highway 63 (Kerala), State Highway 64 (Kerala), State Highway 65 (Kerala), State Highway 66 (Kerala), State Highway 67 (Kerala), State Highway 68 (Kerala), State Highway 69 (Kerala), State Highway 6 (Kerala), State Highway 70 (Kerala), State Highway 71 (Kerala), State Highway 72 (Kerala), State Highway 73 (Kerala), State Highway 74 (Kerala), State Highway 75 (Kerala), State Highway 76 (Kerala), State Highway 7 (Kerala), State Highway 9 (Kerala). Excerpt: The state highways are arterial routes of a state, linking district headquarters and important towns within the state and connecting them with national highways or Highways of the neighboring states. There are 72 state highways in Kerala (SH 4, SH 13, SH 20, SH 24 and SH 35 were upgraded to National highways) Kerala, southern most state of India has a good network of roads. It has eight National Highways, number of State Highways and many district roads. NHAI maintains 444.9 km and Kerala PWD (NH) section maintains rest of the National Highways from direction of MORTH District-wise and Category-wise Length of Roads Maintained by PWD (R&B) as on 31-3-2010 Kerala has eight national highways and runs about 1457 km. The Palakkad-Thrissur-Kochi stretch of NH 47 is a part of North-South and East-West Corridor of the Indian highway system.There was a proposal for construction of standalone ring road/bypasses around Tiruvananthapuram City under NHDP Phase VII. NHAI stopped the feasibility study due to the present land acquisition crisis to the on coming project under NHDP - Phase-III scheme in the stretch of NH-47. Declared as National Highway in March 1972, NH 17 (Total length in Kerala is 421 km out of total 1269 km).) enters the State at Thalapadi in the northern District of Kazaragod bordering with Karnataka state and joins NH 47 at Edappally in Kochi. The NH 17 crosses the Chaliyar River in Feroke, Bharathappuzha in Kuttippuram and the Periyar River in Varappuzha among major Kerala rivers. NH 17 takes a western sharp turn in Kuttippuram towards the coastal front, then reaches Edappalli along the shores of Arabian Sea. It nearly merges with the Arabian Sea in Thalassery in Kannur District, previous instance being at Maravanathe in Karnataka, during its journey. Southern Railway line...
