Tag: means of transport

Air travel is highly effective in India due to the country's vast size and diverse, often challenging, climatic and geographical conditions that make surface transport difficult or slow.

The North Eastern region is mountainous, making road and rail construction difficult. Additionally, the geography necessitates circuitous routes around Bangladesh, making air travel essential for connectivity.

• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is an international airport located in Dum Dum, West Bengal, India, serving the Kolkata metropolitan area
• Indira Gandi International Airport is the one serving Delhi.
• Meenambakkam is a southern neighbourhood of Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is home to Chennai International Airport and the Airports Authority 
• Palam is the place where Indira Gandhi International airport is located.

In the above given options, transport of passengers, transferring of international mails and transport of delicate, fragile and light cargoes are carried out by airlines. But transfer of bulky freight is not done by aeroplanes because it may be dangerous as it carries passengers along. Usually bulky freight or bulk cargoes are transported by water ways which are cheap and safe.

• Aviation in India is nationalised in the year 1953 on August 1.
  
• Air India International to provide long distance International Services, was formed on 15th June 1953 and took over the nine air transport companies with effect from 1st August 1953. 
  

• Nedimbacherry International Airport is located in the state of Kerala. It is also called as Cochin international airport as it is very close to this place.
  
• The most important feature of this airport is that it is not completely owned by government but has been established by active participation of people coming from different walks of life like state government of Kerala, non-residential Indians and various organizations associated with finance.
  

• Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853from Mumbai to Thane
• Indian Railways Nationalized in 1951
• The country’s first railway, built by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
• The Indian railway system is the largest in Asia and fourth in the world based on rail transport network size after the USA, China, and Russia
• It is a single undertaking in the country
• It has the second biggest electrified system in the world after Russia
• The number of stations at present is in between 8000 to 8500
• The total length of the Indian railway is 115,000 km
• At present Indian railway have 9549 locomotives 55,339 passenger services  vehicle 6560 other coaching vehicles and 239321 wagons
• Indian Railways is divided into 17 zones, which are further sub-divided into 68 divisions
• Each zone is headed by a general manager.

At present, it is one of the largest and busiest railway networks in the world, transporting over 1.8 crore passengers and more than 20 lakh tonnes of freight daily. It is the world's largest employer, with more than 14 lakh employees. 

Indian Railways is the largest public sector employer and undertaking in India.

Railways also make it possible to conduct multifarious activities like business, sightseeing, pilgrimage along with transportation of goods over longer distances.