Indian Transport and Communication
One Marks Questions
Answer: Bombay, Thane
Answer: Gateway of India
Answer: Kempegowda International Airport
Answer: 1822
Answer: To convert mud roads into the metaled road
Answer: 1999
Answer: National Highway 07
Answer: Mumbai
Answer: Kochi
Answer: Bombay Samachar
Answer: The Manali – Leh road
Answer: The Hazira – Bijapura – Jagadishpur gas pipeline is the longest pipeline (2300 kms) in India.
To reduce the pressure of Traffic on Chennai port.
Answer: Kolkatta Port
Two Marks Questions
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There are three types of transport system.
a) Land transport :- Roads, Railways, Pipelines.
b) Water transport :- Inland waterways, Ocean transport.
c) Airways :- National airways, International airways.
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Metaled roads which are constructed with cement concrete or asphalt. Unmetaled roads which are common in rural areas.
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On the basis of construction and maintenance roads are classified into five types.
They are
• Golden quadrilateral and super highways
• National Highways
• State Highways
• District roads
• Village roads
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The super highways are divided into two division.
a) The north - south corridor which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari.
b) The east – west corridor which runs from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar to Gujarat.
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• Railways are the other important mode of land transport.
• They are very useful to carry heavy goods and large number of passengers over a long distance.
• They play a vital role in the development of agriculture, industry and economy of India.
• They help to expand trade and tourism.
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They are a new mode of land transport
• Pipelines are laid under the earth’s surface.
• They are mostely used to transport crude oil from oil field to refineries, natural gas and inineral slurry.
• They help to expand trade and tourism.
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Waterways can be divided into two types.
• Inland waterways :- Rivers, lakhs, backwaters, and canals are the inland waterways.
• Ocean waterways :- Water transport through seas and oceans form ocean waterways.
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• Water transport through seas and oceans from ocean waterways India has a long coastline and some ports.
• India is located at the centre of the eastern hemisphere.v
• Nearly 85% of our foreign trade is seaborne.
• All these factors favour for ocean transport.
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This is one of the most important communication system that existed since a long time in India.
• Post office provides many services such as carrying letters, packets, parcels, money order etc from one place to another.
• They also provided savings bank facilities issuing national savings certificates etc.
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• Transport means movement of goods, service and passengers from one place to another.
• It provides utility of place and time. It links production, distribution, exchange and all other related activities.
• Conveyance of messages from one person to another or from one place to another is called “Communication”.
Three and Four Marks Questions
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• Transport plays a very important roles in the development of all factors of human activities namely the primary sector, the secondary sector.
• It is said that “If agriculture and industries are the body and bones of a national organism, transport and communications are the nerves”.
• Efficient and cheap means of transport lielps to develop resources, agriculture, promotes industrial progress, widen the market, increases internal and external trade, provide employınent, raises that income and standard of living of the people, encourages tourism and helps defence.
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• Roads are the most ancient and universal means of transport.
• They play a vital role in the economic growth of a nation.
• India is a land of villages and mainly an agricultural nation.
• For the development of agriculture and village industries, roads are essential, because they are very convenient to connect isolated villages.
• Roads can be constructed in forests and hilly regions.
• They connect remote places with towns and cities, provide to door service.
• They are the feeders to railways, sea commerce, and industries.
• They create employment opportunities and are most useful for defense, especially in border areas.
Answer:
• Indira Gandhi International Airport – Delhi
• Chatrapathi Shivaji International Airport – Mumbai
• Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport – Kolkata
• Anna International Airport – Chennai
• Kempegowda International Airport – Bengaluru
• Rajeev Gandhi International Airport – Hyderabad
• Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport – Amritsar
• Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport – Guwahati
• Biju Patnaik International Airport – Bhubaneshwar
• Saradar Vallabhai Patel International Airport – Ahmedabad
• Veer Savarkar International Airport – Portblair
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport – Nagpur
Zaruki International Airport – Shillong
• Lal Bahadur Shasthri International Airport – Varanasi
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• It helps in quick transmission and discrimination of ideas, information and messages from person to person and place to place.
• Communication helps in creating awareness among the people about government policies and programmes of development.
• It enables us to know about natural hazards and disasters, weather forecasting etc.
It helps in the progress of trade, industry, agriculture etc.
• It provided entertainment, day to day information of the world. Helps to maintain unity and integrity of the country.
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The Geographical Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), and Remote Sensing Technology have been developed in India.
• GIS is a computer based system which can accumulate and Internet data on the Earth’s surface.
• The GPS indicates the location of a stationary or moving object or person through pointing out the latitude and longitude and height above sea level.
• The remote sensing technology collects information regarding the Earth’s surface.
• It gathers information about the distance between two objects without touching the objects. Aerial and satellite photos are taken through remote sensing.
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Golden Quadrilateral and Super Highways:
• The Golden Quadrilateral is a project with 4 to 6 lane roads.
• It was started in 1999.
• This highway network connect major cities as well as cultural and industrial centres of the country.
• It links Delhi – Jaipur – Ahmedabad – Surat – Mumbai – Pune – Bengaluru – Chennai – Visakhapatnam – Bhubaneswar – Kolkata – Allahabad – Kanpur – Delhi.
The Super Highways are divided into two division:
(a) The North-South corridor which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and
(b) The East-West corridor which runs from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar in Gujarat.
They also connect many important cities, industrial centres, and ports. The construction and maintenance of these roads is under the control of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
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• In India the railways were constructed during the British period for convenient transport of raw materials and the movement of army from one place to another.
• The first railway line was laid between Bombay and Thane in 1853, followed by Kolkata to Raniganj 1854, Chennai to Arkonam.
• Then gradually developed in other parts of the country.
• The railways are divided into 16 zones for the purposes of efficient management.
• They play a vital role in the development of agriculture, industry and economy of India.
• They help to expand trade and tourism.
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• Transport plays a very important roles in the development of all factors of human activities.
• It is said that “If agriculture and industries are the body and bones of a national organism, transport and communications are the nerves”.
• Efficient and cheap means of transport helps to develop resources, agriculture.
• Promotes industrial progress, widen the market Provides employment.
• Raises the income and standard of living of the people.
• Encourages tourism and helps defense.
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1. Air transport is the quickest means of transport. It is a very efficient to carry passengers and mail. On the times of emergencies like war, floods, earthquakes. India is a vast country and has all the favorable factors for the development of air transport.
2. There are two separate corporations for operational purpose.
• Air India International which provides services between India and various other countries.
• Indian Airlines which operates within the country and also connects neighboring countries.
Now there are private air transport companies holding permits for non-schedules services. i.c., Jet Airways, Sahara Airways, Paramount Airways etc.
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Today India has various modes of communication. They may be broadly divided into two categories.
a) Personal communication:-
Ex:- Letters, Telephone, Telegram, Fax, E-mail, Internet, Seminar, Conference etc.
b) Mass communication:-
Ex:- Newspaper, Radio, Television, Magazines and Books are come under Mass Media.
