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TRANSPORT g In developed countries, road network is very

The network of different means of transport is good.
developed to facilitate the movement of people g The plains have a dense network of roads
and goods. It also links the centres of production because it is easy to construct roads in plain
and consumption. In the modern age, even ideas than in the mountains.
and skills move from one place to another with g In India, we have National Highways
the help of transport system. connecting all major cities of the country.
The progress in science and technology has g There are state highways and district roads
developed fast means of transport. Land trans- which connects all cities and towns.
port depends on an effective network of roads
and railways. Water
transport uses naviga-
ble rivers, canals and
other water bodies. Air Kargil
Leh
Srinagar
transport requires big 1A
1B
Jammu
airports, equipped with
Pathankot
20
21
efficient means of Amritsar Ludhiana 22
Shimla
15
communication. The 1 Chandigarh
10
most important feature 15 Hisar 1
DELHI
of modern means of Bikaner Bareilly Dibrugarh Likhapani
15 8 2 24 Gangtok 52A 38
transport is that heavy Jaisalmer 11 Agra Lucknow 28A Raxaul Darjiling 31A 37
8 Jaipur 28 31C 31B 52
Ajmer Kanpur Guwahati Dispur 36
loads can be carried Jodhpur Gwalior 56 29 31 37 Kohima
14
3 25 19 28 51 40 Shillong 39
15 2 30 Patna 31 44 Imphal
over long distances in a Udaipur 12 27 Silchar 53
7
2 31
14 Agartala
very short time. 8 26 7 Hazaribag Dhanbad 34 44 Aizawl
Ahmadabad 3 Ranchi 2 54
Kandla 8A Bhopal 12 32 35
Roadways 8A 59 Indore Jabalpur 23 33 Haora
Porbandar Vadodara Raurkela A 6 Kolkata
8B I N D I 41 Haldia
g The most com- Veraval Surat Raipur 6 Sambalpur New Moore I
6 42 5 (India)
Nagpur
monly used 3 Akola Cuttack Paradwip
8 Nashik 7 Bhubaneshwar
43
means of trans- Mumbai 50 B A Y
16 43 O F
Pune
port are the roads, A R A B I A N 9 Koraput B E N G A L
S E A 17 Solapur 9 Visakhapatnam
especially for 4 Hyderabad 9 5 REFERENCES
short distances. 13 7 Vijayawada 5 National Highway with number
North-South Corridor Highway
4A Kurnool
Panaji Hosapete Golden Quadrilateral Highway
g Roads can be East-West Corridor Highway
18 5 Other Important Roads
metalled (Pucca) 4
Mangaluru
4 Chennai LENGTH OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
and unmetalled 48 Bengaluru 7 46 4 A N D M A N
17 Mysuru Uttar Pradesh
9
(Kutcha). A Puducherry 8 Rajasthan
L
47 45 7 Andhra Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Tamil Nadu A N D
K
g Roads are the best S H Tiruchchirappalli 6 5 Karnataka Maharashtra Odisha Others ( I N D I A )
49 (in thousand km) Arunachal Pradesh Bihar Gujarat West Bengal
Kochi Madurai 49 4 Assam Chhatisgarh Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand N I C O B A R
A
means to link the D W 7 Ramanathapuram 3 Haryana Uttarakhand
(INDIA)
Rameswaram
47
2 Kerala Punjab
E
rural and urban E Thiruvananthapuram 1
Kanniyakumari 0 I S L A N D S
P
places across the
country. I N D I A N O C E A N
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