Consider the following pairs : | National Highway | Cities Connected | |——————|————————–| | 1. NH 4 | Chennai and Hyderabad | | 2. NH 6 | Mumbai and Kolkata | | 3. NH 15 | Ahmedabad and Jodhpur | Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
Explanation
National Highway 4 or NH 4: It is 230.7 km in length. This highway is known as the Andaman Trunk Road (The Great Andaman Trunk Road).
Pair 1 is incorrect: A stretch of national highway from Mumbai to Pune to Hubli to Bangalore to Chennai was earlier called NH 4 before the renumbering of national highways in the year 2010. The former NH 4 is now renumbered as NH 48.
Pair 2 is incorrect: National Highway 6 is a national highway in India running from Jorabat in Meghalaya to Selling in Mizoram. The highway passes through the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Mizoram.
Pair 3 is incorrect: National Highway 15 (NH 15) starts from Baihata in Assam and terminates at Wakro in Arunachal Pradesh.