(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the Central Road Fund Act, 2000 (54 of 2000);
(b) “core network” means the network comprising of selected State Highways and Major District Roads in a State, which have the potential to be upgraded as National Highways;
(c) “executive agency” means-
(i) in case of a Union territory, the Administrator thereof to whom the functions of the Central Government in relation to the execution of works pertaining to national highways are delegated under article 239 of the Constitution; and
(ii) in any other case, the State Government to which such functions are delegated under section 5 of the National Highways Act, 1956 (48 of 1956);
(d) “Expressways” means the highway with a divided carriageway, controlled access, grade separations at cross-roads and fencing, permitting only fast moving vehicles and it may be either “National Expressways” (owned by the Government of India) or “State Expressways” (owned by the concerned State Government);
(e) “Form” means the form appended to these rules;
(f) “Major District Roads (MDRs) means the important roads within a district notified as “the Major District Roads” by the concerned State Government;
(g) “National Highways” (NHs) means the highways specified in the Schedule to the National Highways Act, 1956;
(h) “Rural Roads” means “the roads serving the rural areas or other main roads other than the National Highways, the State Highways and the Major District Roads and the roads connecting the villages or groups of villages with each other and connecting nearest road of a higher category;
(i) “State Highways (SHs)” means the arterial roads of a State notified as ”State Highways” by the concerned State Government;
(j) “scheme” means the scheme for development of state roads including roads of inter-State connectivity and economic importance and includes the schemes relating to development of State roads sanctioned under the Central Road Fund by the Resolution governing the Central Road Fund as passed by the Houses of Parliament, dated the 13th May, 1988;
(2) All the words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.