National Highway Authority

National Highways Authority

Friendly Highways
Abbreviation NHA
Formation 1991
Legal status Active
Headquarters NHA Headquarters, Islamabad
Coordinates Coordinates: 28°35′01″N 77°03′28″E / 28.583689°N 77.057886°E / 28.583689; 77.057886
Region served
Pakistan
Official language
Urdu
English
Chairman
 Shahid Ashraf Tarar
Website www.nha.gov.pk
Highway above the River Jhelum

The National Highway Authority is responsible for building and maintaining highways and motorways in Pakistan. The objective of the NHA is to "plan, promote and organize programmes for construction, development, operation, repairs & maintenance of National Highways, Motorways & strategic roads."[1]

History

In 1978, Government of Pakistan (GoP) decided to federalise five important inter-provincial roads named " National Highways" and created the National Highway Board for monitoring the development and maintenance of these federalized roads by provincial highway departments.

The NHA was created in 1991, through an Act of parliament, for planning, development, operation, repair and maintenance of National Highways and Strategic Roads specially entrusted to NHA by the Federal Government or by a Provincial Government or other authority concerned. NHA is custodian of 39 national highways motorways expressway strategic routes having a total length of 12,131 km. It is 4.6% of total national road network i.e. 263,775 km, however, it carries 80% of commercial traffic and N-5 which is blood-line of Pakistan, carries 65% of this load in the country. Being custodian of Highway assets of Pakistan's road network, NHA is committed to provide safe, modern and efficient transportation system As the cornerstone of Highway network National Highways functions as the backbone of Pakistan's transportation system plays an important role in the development of micro and macro economy and also enhances the national integration by increasing the social and economic dependence among the Provinces.

M2 motorway Map (Islamabad-Lahore section), Pakistan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". National Highway Authority. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.

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