This document discusses different aspects of national highways in India. It outlines the different types of roads including national highways, state highways, and village roads. It describes the various elements that make up a road's cross section such as the pavement surface, width, and right of way. The document also discusses the different types of pavement, layers of a pavement, materials used in road construction such as bitumen and aggregate, and various tests used to evaluate the properties of aggregates, bitumen, soil and traffic signs.