National Highway 2
2 National Highway 2
National Highway 2 (NH 2), commonly referred as Delhi-Kolkata Road is a busy Indian National Highway that runs through the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. It constitute a major portion of historical Grand Trunk Road along with NH 91 and NH 1 in India. The road is the part of National Highway network of India, and it is officially listed as running over 1465 km from Delhi to Kolkata. The km in each of the states are Delhi (12), Haryana (74), Uttar Pradesh (752), Bihar (202), Jharkhand (190), West Bengal (235).
The highway touches the cities of Faridabad in Haryana, Mathura, Agra, Etawah, Bhoganipur, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Mohania in Bihar, Barhi, Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Asansol, Durgapur, Kolkata in West Bengal.
Almost all of the 1465 km stretch of NH 2 has been selected as a part of the Golden Quadrilateral by the National Highways Development Project. Approximately 253 km stretch of NH 2 between Delhi and Agra has been selected as a part of the North-South Corridor by the National Highways Development Project.Approximately 35 km stretch of NH 2 between Barah and Kanpur has been selected as a part of the East-West Corridor by the National Highways Development Project.
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