Lakhanpur-Srinagar highway renamed

Lakhanpur-Srinagar highway renamed Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, October 31
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has renamed the Lakhanpur-Jammu-Srinagar National Highway 1-A as the Lakhanpur-Jammu-Srinagar National Highway 44. It is the lone surface link between the Kashmir valley and the rest of the country.
Talking to The Tribune over the phone, Col MK Jain (retd), in-charge of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Jammu and Kashmir, said the name of this important highway had been changed.
“With the fresh notification in the official gazette, the NH 1-A has been renamed NH-44. The Union ministry has adopted some scientific way to locate the national highways across the country, under which this national highway has been renamed,” Jain said.
He said the NHAI would also change the signboards installed on the highway shortly.
Besides, Jain confirmed that other national highways across the state had also been renamed. “The Uri-Srinagar-Leh National Highway has been renamed NH-1, the Kishtwar-Batote National Highway NH 244, while the Domel-Katra National Highway has also been renamed NH 144,” he said.
Jain said, “Earlier there has been some confusion regarding the national highways, which the ministry has tried to clear.”
He added the national highways all over the country were renamed. “Now, all the national highways have been renamed numerically, which will help remove confusion,” he said.