India’s national highways are experiencing the worst of natural fury in years. A severe monsoon has wrecked the road network in several states, leaving hundreds of people dead and losses running into thousands of crores.

The monsoon this year is no seasonal disturbance, rather has become an infrastructure resilience crisis, forcing both the central and state governments to reevaluate their readiness. In all of this, the weakness of India’s tenuous road network has come to a head.

The death toll has been significantly high. Over 1,200 people have died in rain-related incidents in north India. Himachal Pradesh is, as expected, the epicentre for the disaster. At least 427 people have died there since the rains began in June, and 25 stretches of national highways (NH) were damaged. Private p

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