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Shahid Highway

a national highway of Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ127689793
Source-derived summary

Sahid Highway (National Highway 54) is a national highway in Nepal located in Lumbini Province. The total length of the highway is 223.91 kilometres (139.13 mi). Feeder road F138, F015 and F179 were converted and upgraded into NH54.

The Koilabas – Lamahi (from Indo-Nepal border to Mahendra Highway at Lamahi) section of this Highway is 33.5 km (20.82 mi) in length which has been built with the cooperation of India. The Government of India has funded NR 698 million for construction of 33.5 km road from Lamahi to Koilabas, connecting East–west highway and India-Nepal border.

The Lamahi – Ghorahi (28 km (17.40 mi)) section of this highway is under widening.

The Ghorahi – Lukum section of this highway is under construction.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shahid Highway” as a national highway of Nepal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 121-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shahid, Highway and national can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as a national highway of Nepal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q127689793. Authority coordinates are 28.033, 82.492. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Shahid Highway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.