Hi Prasanth,
Same discussion was there in osm forum.
Please go through the discussion.
Old and new numbers has to be tagged.
The way how it should be is mentioned in the wiki.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Tags/Highway
Thanks,
Naveen
On 30 June 2014 21:01, Prasanth Rajan
Hello.
Please note that the rationalization of Highways has been put on hold. Only
new highways and state highways being declared NHs are using this numbering
scheme. This is true for the entire Country and not just for South India as
stated in the mail below. NH47 stays NH47. NH544 is not the