National Highway 73 (India)

National Highway 73
National Highway 73
	Map of the National Highway in red
	NH 73 crossing Charmadi Ghat
Route information
Length	317 km (197 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Mangaluru
East end	Tumakuru
Location
Country	India
States	Karnataka
Highway system
	Roads in India; Expressways; National; State; Asian;

National Highway 73 (NH 73) is a National Highway in India. This highway runs in the Indian state of Karnataka. It starts from sea port city of Mangaluru ( Mangalore) and ends at Tumakuru.^[1] Even though named as national highway the road is narrow and prone to landslips and falling of trees in Charmady ghat section of Western Ghats.^[2] This highway was previously part of national highways 48, 234 and 206 but subsequent to rationalisation of national highway numbers of India by Gazette notification on 5 March 2010 it was changed to National Highway 73.^[3]