On a road trip with friends, and family, or just crossing borders of states, we all have seen colourful stones on the side of highways and village roads notifying the distance to a location. Let’s crack each colour of the milestones:
The yellow-coloured milestones are used to indicate that you are on a highway. They connect different types of minor towns, villages or landmarks.
1. Yellow Highway Milestones:
The yellow-coloured milestones are used to indicate that you are on a highway. They connect different types of minor towns, villages or landmarks.
2. Green Highway Milestones:
The blue highway milestones are used to indicate the distance to a national highway or an expressway. India has a district road network of 5,86,181 km at present.
3. Blue and Black Highway Milestones:
The Orange highway milestones are used to you are on a rural road. The orange strip also means the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
4. Orange Highway Milestones: