Section 2:
Declaration of certain highways to be national highways.
(1) Each of the highways
specified in the Schedule 1*** is hereby declared to be a national highway.
(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any other
highway to be a national highway and on the publication of such notification such highway shall be
deemed to be specified in the Schedule.
(3) The Central Government may, by like notification, omit any highway from the Schedule and
on the publication of such notification, the highway so omitted shall cease to be a national highway.
Notes:
1. The words "except such parts thereof as are situated within any municipal area" omitted by Act 16 of 1997, s. 2 (w.e.f. 24-
1-1997).