1. (1) The act may be called the National Highways Act, 1956. Short title, extend and

(2) It extends to the whole of India commencement

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. (1) Each of the Highways specified in the Schedule ( except such parts, threreof as are situated within any municipal area) is hereby declared to be a national highway.

(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any other highway to be a national highway and on the publication of such notification such highway shall be deemed to be specified in the Schedule.

3. In this Act, ``municipal area" means with a population of twenty thousand or more the control or management of which is entrusted to a municipal committee, a town, a town committee or any other authority.

4. All national highways shall vest in the Union, and for the purposes of this Act ``Highways" include:-

(i) all lands appurtenant thereto whether demarcated or not,

(ii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriage ways and other

structures constructed on or across such highways, and

(iii) all fences, trees posts and boundary furlong and milestones of such highways or any land appurtenant to such highways.

5. It shall be the responsibility of the Central Government to develop and maintain in proper repair all national highways; but the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that any function in relation to the development or maintenance of any national highway shall, subject to such conditions, if any as may be specified in the notification , also be exercisable by the Government or the State within which the national highway is situated or by any officer of authority subordinate to the Central Government or to the State Government.

6. The Central Government may give directions to the Government of any State as to the carrying out in the state of any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule, notification or order made thereunder.

7. (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette levy fees at such rates as may be laid down by rules made in this behalf for services or benefits rendered in relation to the use of ferries, temporary bridges and tunnels on national highways.

(2) Such fees when so levied shall be collected in accordance with the rules made under this Act.

(3) Any fee leviable immediately before the commencement of this Act for Services or benefits rendered in relation to the use of ferries, temporary bridges and tunnels on any highway specified in the schedule shall continue to be leviable under this Act unless and until it is altered in exercise of the power conferred by sub-sections (1).

8. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Central Government may enter into an agreement with the Government of any Stare or with any authority entrusted with the control or management of any municipal area in relation to the development or maintenance of the whole or any part of a national highway situated within the state or, as the case may be, in relation to the development or maintenance of any such part of a highway situated within a municipal area as is referred to in sub-section (1) of section 2 and any such agreement may provide for the sharing of expenditure by the respective parties thereto.

9. (1) The central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may prov9de for all or any of the following matters, namely:-

(a) the manner in which and the conditions subject to which, any function in relation to the development or maintenance of national highway or any part thereof may be exercised by the state Government or any officer or authority subordinate to the Central to the Central Government or the State Government;

(b) the rates at which fees for services rendered in relation to the use of ferries, temporary bridges and tunnels on any national highway may be levied and the manner in which such fees shall be collected;

(c) The periodical inspection of national highways and the submission of inspections reports to the Central Government;

(d) the reports on works carried out on national highways;

(e) any other matter for which provision should be made under this Act.

10. All notifications or agreements issued or entered into under this Act shall be laid before Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after they are issued or entered into and all rules made under section 9 shall be laid for not less than thirty days before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made, and shall be subject to such modifications as Parliament may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.

THE SCHEDULE

(See section 2)

NATIONALG HIGHWAYS

s. National Descriptions of National Highways

No.

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1. 1 The highways connecting Delhi. Ambala, Jullundur and Amritsar and proceeding to the border between India and Pakistan.

2. 1A The highway connecting Jullundhar, Madhopur, Jammu, Banihal Srinagar, Baramula and Uri.

3. 2 The highway connecting Delhi Mathura, Agara, Kanpur, Allahabad, Banaras, Monahia Barhi and Calcutta.

4. 3 The Highway connecting Agra, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Indore, Dhulia Nasic, Thana and Bompay.

5. 4 The Highway starting from its junction near Thana with the highway specified in serial No. 4 and connecting Poona, Belgaum, Hubli, Banglore, Ranipet and Madras.

6. 5 The highway starting from its junction near Baharagorra with the highway specified in serial No. 7 and connecting Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar, Visakhapatnam, Vijyawada and Madras.

7. 6 The highway starting from its junction near Dhulia with the highways specified in serial No. 4 and connecting Nagpur, Raipur, Sambalpur, Bahargora and Calcutta.

8. 7 The highway starting form its junction near Banaras with the highway specified in serial NO. 3 and connecting Mangawan, Reas, Jabalpur, Lakhnadon, Nagpur, Hyderabad, kurnnnol, Banglaore Krishnagire, Salem, Dingigul, Madurai and Cape Comorin.

9. 8 The highway connecting Delhi, Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Hamedabad Baroda and Bombay.

10. 8A The highway connecting Ahmedabad, Limbadi Morvi and Kandla.

11. 8B The highway starting from its junction near Bamanbore with the highway specified in serial No. 10 and connecting Rajkot and Porbandar.

12. 9 The highway connecting Poona, Sholapur, Hyderabad and Vijaywada.

13 10 The highway connecting Delhi and Fazilla and proceeding to the border between India and Pakistan.

14. 22 The highway connecting Ambala Kalka, Simala, Narkanda, Rampur and Chini and proceeding to teh border between India and Tibet near Shipkila.

15. 24 The highway connecting Delhi, Bareilly and Lucknow.

16. 25 The highway connecting Lucknow, Kanpur Jhansi and Shivpuri.

17. 26 The highway connecting Jhansi, and Lakhnadon.

18. 27 The highway connecting Allahabad with the highway specified in serial No. 8 near Mangaawan.

19. 28 The highway connecting starting from its junction near Barauni with the highway specified in serial no. 23 and connecting Muzaffarpur, Pipra, Gorakhpur and Lucknow.

20 28A The highway starting from its junction near Pipara with the highway specified in serial No. 19 and connecting Saguauli, and Raxaul and proceeding to the border between India and Nepal.

21. 29 The highway connecting Gorakhpur, Ghazipur and Banara.

22. 30 The highway starting from its junctions near Monaia with the highway specified in serial No. 3 and connecting Patna and Bkhtiyarpur.

23. 31 The highway starting from its junction near Barhi with the highway specified in serial NO. 31 and connecting Bkhtiyarpur, Monameh, Purnea, Dalkhnola Siliguri, Sivok and Cooch Behar and proceeding to its junction with the highway specified in serial No. 28 near Goalpara.

24. 31 A The highway connecting Sivok and Gangtok.

25. 33 The highway starting from its junction near Barhi with the highway specified in serial NO. 3 and connecting Ranchi and Tatanagar and proceeding to its junction with the highway specified in serial No. 7 near Baharagora.

26 34 The highway starting from its junction near Dalkhola with the highway specified in serial No. 23 and connecting Berhampore, Barasat and Calcutta.

27. 35 The highway connecting Barasat and Bangaon and proceeding to the border between India and Pakistan.

28. 37 The highway starting from its junction near Goalpara with the highway specified in serial NO. 23 and connecting Gautai, Jorabat, Kamargaon, Makum and Saikhoaghat.

29. 38 The highway connecting Makum Ledo and Lekhapani.

30 39 The highway connecting Kamargaon, Imphal, and Palel and proceeding to the border India and Burma.

31 40 The highway connecting Jorabat and Shillong and proceeding to the border between India and Pakistan near Dawki.

32 42 The highway starting from its junction near Sambalpur with the highway specified in serial No. 7 and proceeding vai Angul to its junction with the highway specified in serial NO. 6 near Cuttak.'

33 43 The highway connecting Raipur and Viziagaram and proceeding to its junction with the highway specified in serial No. 6 Vizianagaram.

34 45 The highway connecting Madras, Tiruchirapalli and Dindigal.

35 46 The highway connecting Krishnagiri and Ranipet.

36 47 The highway connecting Salem, Coimbatore, Trichure, Ernakulam, Trivandrum and Cpae Comorin.

37 47A The highway starting from its junction near Trichur with the highway specified in serial no. 36 and connecting with the West Coast Road near Chalisseri.

38 49 The highway connecting Madurai and Dhanuchkodi.

39 50 The highway connecting Nasik with the highway specified in serial No. 5 near Poona.

No. PL-7(6)/55 Dated the 4th April 1957

NOTIFICATION

S.R.O. 1160. In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 o the the National Highways Act 1956 (48 of 1956)., the Central Government hereby appoints the 15the days of April, 1957, as the date on which the said Act shall come into force.

MINISTERY OF LAW, JUSTIC AND COMPANY AFFAIRS

(LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT)

Dated the 12th August, 1977/Sravana 21, 1989(Saka)

The following Act of parliament received the assent of the President on the 12the August, 1977. And hereby published for general information.
THE NATIONAL HIGHWAYS (AMENDENT) ACT 1977

No. 30 OF 1977.

(12th August, 19777)

48 of 1956 An Act to amend the National Highways Act, 1956.

short Title Be it enacted by parliament in the Twenty-eighth year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. This Act may be called the National Highways (Amendment) Act, 1977.

Amendement of Section 7

2. In section 7 of the National Highways Act, 1956 (herein after referred to as the Principal Act) in sub-section(I).

(i) After the words " the use of ferries" the words, figures and letter permanent bridges the cost of construction of each of which is more than rupees twenty-five lacks and which are opened to traffic on or after the 1st day of April, 1976, shall be inserted;

(ii) the following proviso shall be inserted namely.

Provided that if the Central Government is of opinion that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, it ma. By like notification specify any bridge in relation to the use of which fees shall not be leviable under this sub-section.

Amendment of 3. In section 9 of the Act.

Section 9 (i)for clause (b) of sub-section (2) the following clause shall be substituted namely: -

"(b) the rates at which fees for services rendered in relation to the use of ferries, permanent bridges, temporary bridges and tunnels on any national highway may be levied, and the manner in which such fees shall be collect , under section 7";

3.Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session, for total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

Amendment of 4. In Section 10 of the Principal Act the Portion beginning with the

Section words and figure "and all rules made under section 9" and ending with the words " or the session immediately following shall be omitted.

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