What is revised number of the National Highways connecting Indore to Jaipur ?

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Correct — A, 52. Under the 2010 rationalisation of India's National Highway numbers, the highway linking Indore and Jaipur carries the revised number NH 52. The word 'revised' is the key: the older two-digit numbers were replaced in that renumbering by a systematic directional scheme.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Wrong — NH 47 is not the revised number of the Indore–Jaipur route.  (c) The trap. Indore sat on the old NH-3 (the Agra–Mumbai 'A-B Road'), so '03' feels right — but NH-3 ran toward Agra/Gwalior, not Jaipur, and those old numbers were themselves superseded in the 2010 renumbering.  (d) Wrong — NH 46 is not the number assigned to the Indore–Jaipur highway.

Concept: In 2010 the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways renumbered India's National Highways on a systematic plan, replacing the old ad-hoc numbers. Many familiar routes received new numbers, so questions that say 'revised number' are testing whether you know the post-2010 scheme rather than the old NH-3/NH-8 style numbers.

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