Introduction
1. General
The Department of Roads (DoR), Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport have been
publishing 'NEPAL ROAD STATISTICS' (NRS) since 1998 in two years interval.
This document 'STATISTICS OF STRATEGIC ROAD NETWORK' is the continuation of
previous publications, and contains data and maps for the year up to the end of fiscal year
2070/071 BS (2013/2014 AD) of the Strategic Road Network (SRN).
This document has been organized as follows:
Foreword from the Director General
Contents/Abbreviations
Road Network Data
Map of the country with SRN 2013/14 AD
Data and Maps of Development Regions, Zones and Districts
List of Main Bridges along SRN
Road-wise District Coverage
Schematic Diagram of SRN, 2013/14 AD
2. Geographic Information System (GIS)
This document is prepared based on Geographic Information System (GIS) utilizing ArcGIS
system from ESRI.
GIS is a modern and highly efficient computer based tool and database management system
which performs data accumulation, retrieval, updating, analysis and producing of spatial data
defined in thematic layers. A well designed GIS permits the integration of data and has the
ability to associate and manipulate diverse sets of spatially referenced data that have been
geo-coded to a common referencing system.
The road GIS database has been prepared using calibrated route feature of the ArcGIS. The
start and end chainages are provided to each of the routes and the intermediate chainages
are determined through interpolation. This way each of the routes presents the true
(measured) lengths rather than the “shape” lengths straight from the geometry. A customized
ArcGIS, developed under the SWRP-PIP study has been used to prepare the statistics of the
roads for the districts by automatically generating true lengths clipped by the districts. The
zonal & regional databases are created using the sum of the district database.
Most of road network have been created from the topographical maps of Nepal (1:25,000 &
1:50,000 scale). Since the topographical maps were based on 1992 & 1994 aerial
photographs, there are many roads which alignment could not be obtained from the
topographical maps. In these cases, existing road alignment are prepared based on the
actual survey data based on the national grid coordinate system and GPS survey works.
Similarly the planned and under construction roads are mapped based on the various
feasibility and design reports.
3. Data Tables and Maps of Road Network
Data tables and maps of each Development Region have been compiled and presented
separately. Data tables and maps of corresponding districts falling under the Development
Regions are also presented in detail.
The SRN having road reference are based on the recent cabinet decisions.
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The road categories included are:
Existing SRN
Under Construction SRN
Planned SRN
Postal Highway
Mid Hill Highway
A brief details of each category mentioned above are given in following sub-sections.
3.1 Existing SRN
Existing National Highways and Feeder Roads (2013/14) falling under Bituminous/Blacktop
(BT), Gravelled (GR) and Earthen (ER) road categories have been thoroughly checked and
incorporated in this document with their road reference number and link codes.
3.2 Under Construction SRN
All roads falling under SRN which are presently under construction have been included in this
document. The total length, estimated by concerned agencies, has been adopted. The actual
length which would be known only after the completion of the construction has to be adjusted
in the next publication of the document.
3.3 Planned SRN
Department of Roads has planned to construct several roads having National Strategic
Importance in coming years and they have been included here as Planned Roads. Further
DoR is also planning and have put forward a proposal to include several existing roads of
other categories into Strategic Road Network, and they are categorized as follows:
Proposed National Highway from existing other road category
Proposed Planned National highways
Planned Feeder Roads
Proposed Feeder Roads from Existing Other Road Category
Proposed Planned Feeder Road
The estimated length of planned National Highways and Feeders Roads of above mentioned
categories and maps have been included as Planned Roads in this document.
3.5 Postal Highway (PR)
The existing Postal Roads have been identified from the Topographical Maps (1:25000) and
information also has been obtained from Divisional Road Offices (DROS) and the total length
of road in each district and region have been included.
3.7 Mid Hill Highway (MH)
The existing road network, under construction and planned roads falling under the Mid-Hill
Highway category have been separately included.
3.8 District Roads
Numerous village roads, agriculture roads and district roads have been constructed in the
recent years through effort of various organizations which falls under the jurisdiction of
different local bodies and departments. A systematic and reliable database, however, is not
available in a consolidated form, hence these are excluded from the database and map.
However, the DoLIDAR is preparing comprehensive District Road Network map updating
works and soon will be available through web mapping portal along with this SRN.
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4. Data of Bridges
The data of Bridges falling under SRN have been compiled from the recently completed
Bridge Management Infrastructure System (BMIS).
5. Availability of Digital Data
The road network produced in hardcopy in the present document is also available in digital
format in ESRI Shape file format in route feature class along with the attribute tables. The
present document is also available in PDF format and can also be downloaded from the
www.dor.gov.np. A web mapping portal is also available through the DoR website which
provides interactive map viewing and data extraction.
