Name the body which construct and maintain national highways
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The National Highways network of India is a network of trunk roads that is owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. It is constructed and managed by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), and the public works departments (PWDs) of state governments. NHAI was established by the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. Section 16(1) of the Act states that the function of NHAI is to develop, maintain, and manage the National Highways and any other highways vested in, or entrusted to, it by the Government of India. These highways as of April 2019 measure over 142,126 km (88,313 mi).[1] The Indian government has vowed to double the highway length from 96,000 to 2,00,000 km.[2]
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Construction and maintenence of national hogheays comes under the body called National Highway Authority of India i.e NHAI