Siddhicharan Highway

Siddhicharan Highway
सिद्धिचरण राजमार्ग
Siddhicharan Highway; सिद्धिचरण राजमार्ग
राष्ट्रिय राजमार्ग २० (Nepali)
National Highway 20
	NH20 in red
Route information
	Maintained by MoPIT (Department of Roads)
Length	193 km (120 mi)
Major junctions
South end	Madar
	Choharwa, Mirchaiya, Katari, Okhaldhunga
North end	Salleri
Location
Country	Nepal
Provinces	Madhesh Province, Koshi Province
Districts	Siraha District, Udayapur District, Okhaldhunga District, Solukhumbu District
Highway system
	Roads in Nepal;

Bhugol Park a part of Siddhicharan Highway (NH20) in Katari, Udayapur, Nepal

Siddhicharan Highway (NH20) (Nepali: सिद्धिचरण राजमार्ग) is a National Highway of Nepal located between Madhesh Province and Koshi Province. The total length of the highway is 193 kilometers (120 mi) which passes through Siraha District of Madhesh Province and Udayapur District, Okhaldhunga District, Solukhumbu District of Koshi Province.^[1]^[2] It starts in Terai region at Madar (Indo-Nepal border) and crosses NH01 (Mahendra Highway) in Mirchaiya Municipality and runs towards north where it passes through Sivalik Hills and enters in Inner Terai valley in Katari Municipality, at there it crosses NH09 (Madan Bhandari Inner Terai Highway) then it moves further north climbing Mahabharat Range or Lesser Himalayas where it crosses NH03 (Mid-Hills Highway and enters hilly town Okhaldhunga of Siddhicharan Municipality. It crosses NH75 at Okhaldhunga and runs further North towards Salleri. The distance between Okhaldhunga to Salleri is 57.7 kilometers (35.9 mi).^[3]

Highway sections

Highway Details
Highway No.	Highway Link	Destinations (between)	Distance (KM)	Elevation (M)
NH20	NH20-001	Madar-Siraha	08.45	94
	NH20-002	Siraha-Chauharwa	18.21	155
	NH01-018	Chauharwa-Mirchaiya	05.15	134
	NH20-003	Mirchaiya-Jyamire	07.00	322
	NH20-004	Jyamire-Katari	20.00	218
	NH20-005	Katari-Ghurmi	48.47	442
	NH03-017	Ghurmi-Hilepani	07.00	390
	NH20-006	Hilepani-Okhaldhunga	35.20	1822
	NH20-007	Okhaldhunga-Mudhe Bisana	20.71	3000
	NH20-008	Mudhe Bisana-Salleri	37.00	2493

Source:[1]

Hilepani Junction (elevation:1822m), road going down towards Halesi is NH03 Madan Bhandari Inner Terai Highway and road going up towards Okhaldhunga is NH20

^ "Statics of National Highway 2020_21" (PDF). Nepal in data. Department of Roads (Nepal). 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
^ "Statics of Stretgic Road Network". Department of Roads (Nepal). 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
^ "Updated resettlement plan OKHALDHUNGA-SALLERI ROAD" (PDF). Department of Roads. March 2014. Retrieved 2024-06-14.