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Definition :

Highway, means a National Highway declared as such under s. 2 of the National Highway Act, 1956 (48 of 1956) and includes any Expressway or Express Highway vested in the Central Government, whether surfaced or unsurfaced, and also includes:

(i) all lands appurtenant to the Highway, whether demarcated or not, acquired for the purpose of the Highway or transferred for such purpose by the State Government to the Central Government;

(ii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures constructed on or across such Highway; and

(iii) all trees, railings, fences, posts, paths, signs, signals, kilometre stone and other Highway accessories and materials on such Highways. [Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002 (13 of 2003), s. 2(e)]

1. Broadly, any main route on land, on water, or in air

2. Jain Public road connecting towns or cities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 734.