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NH48 or Kaligandaki Corridor () is an under construction long highway in Nepal starting from Gaidakot,Nabalpur and ending at Korala, the northern part near the Chinese border. It is one of the 
National Pride Projects
National Pride Projects are a set of infrastructure projects by the government of Nepal based on the proposal by the National Planning Commission.
Projects
Irrigation Projects
* Babai Irrigation Project
* Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Proj ...
. After the completion, about 1 million people of 10 districts will have direct access to motorable road. The road is also predicted to become a trading route between Nepal, India and China.
The route passes though Midhills and Himalayan mountains. Main locality includes Palpa, Syangja, Parbat, Baglung and Muktinath.
The road is being constructed by multiple contractors, including Nepal Army
The Nepali Army (), also referred to as the Gorkhali Army (; see '' Gorkhas''), formally known as "Royal Nepal Army" is the land service branch of the Nepali Armed Forces. After the Gorkha Kingdom was founded in 1559, its army was establis ...
’s Road Construction Division. The project was started on 3 December 2018 and scheduled for completion by December 2021.
The highway NH48 ends and meets NH47
The following highways are numbered 47:
International
* AH47, Asian Highway 47
* European route E47
Australia
East West Link (Melbourne), East West Link (proposed)
Canada
* Alberta Highway 47
* Ontario Highway 47
* Saskatchewan Highway 47
...
at Tansen
Rāmtanu ( – 26 April 1589), popularly referred to as Mian Tānsen (), or Sangeet Samrāt (), was a Hindustani classical musician. Born into a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family in Gwalior, he learnt and perfected his art in the northwest regio ...
and the NH47 further goes to Indo-Nepal border to Belahiya near Siddharthanagar
Siddharthanagar (), formerly and colloquially still called Bhairahawa (), is a municipality and the administrative headquarter of Rupandehi District in Lumbini Province of Nepal, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu. It is the closest city to Lumb ...
.
See also
*List of roads in Nepal
The first Nepal Road Standard introduced by the Department of roads in 1970, classified roads into 4 types. In the second Nepal Road Standard introduced in 2013, the types of the roads were the same.
SSRN 2004 published by the Department of ro ...
*National Pride Projects
National Pride Projects are a set of infrastructure projects by the government of Nepal based on the proposal by the National Planning Commission.
Projects
Irrigation Projects
* Babai Irrigation Project
* Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Proj ...
References
Highways in Nepal {{Nepal-road-stub