National Highways Act, 1956 was enacted for the declaration of certain highways to be national highways..
The schedule of the act specified the existing national highways and also the act empowers the government to declare any other highway to be a national highway by notification.
The Act provides that all national highways shall vest in the Union government. It will include all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways, fences, trees, posts and boundary and other structures constructed on or across such highways.
It shall be the responsibility of the Central Government to develop, maintain and repair all national highways.
