MAJOR NATIONAL HIGHWAYS IN INDIA
No. Length Kms Places Connected
1 456 New Delhi, Ambala, Jalandhar, Amritsar till Pakistan border
1A 663 Jalandhar and Baramulla via Jammu and Srinagar
2 1503 Delhi and Kolkata via Mathura, Agra, Kanpur,Varanasi
3 1161 Agra and Mumbai via Gwalior. Indore, Nasik. Thane
4 235 Thane and Chennai via Pune, Belgaum, Bangalore
5 1533 Connecting Baharagora and Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar. Vishakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Chennai.
6 1645 Dhule and Kolkata via Nagpur. Raipur, Sambalpur
7 2372 Varanasi and Kanyakumari via Rewa, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Salem, Madurai
8 1428 Delhi and Mumbai via Jaipur, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Baroda
9 791 Pune and Vijaywada via Sholapur and Hyderabad
10 406 Delhi and Fazilka and proceeding to the Pakistan border
11 586 Agra, Jaipur and Bikaner
22 462 Ambala, Kalka, Simla and Chini and proceeding to the China border near Shipki La Pass
24 441 Delhi, Bareilly and Lucknow
28 573 Barauni and Lucknow via Muzaffarpur and Gorakhpur
29 198 Gorakhpur, Ghazipur and Varanasi
37 680 Goalpara and Saikhoa-Ghat via Jorhat
39 441 Nawalgarh, Palel and Myanmar border via Imphal
47 665 Salem with Kanyakumari via Coimbatore, Trichur, Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram
50 1 93 Nasik and Pune
RAILWAYS
The Indian Railways have been a great integrating force for more than 150 years. From a very modest beginning in 1853, when the first train steamed off from Mumbai to Thane, a distance of 34 km, Indian Railways have grown into a vast network. They spread over a route-length of 63,221 km with a fleet of 7,817 locomotives, 5,321, passenger service vehicles, 4,904 other coaching vehicles and 228, 170 wagons as on 31 March 2004. The gauge-wise route and track lengths of the system as on 31 March 2006 were as under:
Gauge Route Running Total %
Track Track
Broad Gauge (1.676 mm) 46,807 66,759 88,547 81.62
Metre Gauge (1.000 mm) 13,290 13,976 16,489 15.2
Narrow Gauge 3,124 3,129 3,450 3.2
(762 mm and 610 mm)
Total 63,221 83,859 1,08, 486 100
RAILWAY ZONES IN INDIA
Zone Headquarters
1. Central Railway Mumbai
2. Eastern Railway Kolkata
3. Northern Railway New Delhi
4. North Eastern Railway Gorakhpur
5. North-East Frontier Railway Maligaon, Guwahati
6. Southern Railway Chennai
7. South Central Railway Secunderabad
8. South Eastern Railway Kolkata
9. Western Railway Church Gate Mumbai
10. East Central Railway Hajipur Bihar
11. East Coast Railway Bhubaneshwar
12. North Central Railway Allahabad
13. North Western Railway Jaipur
14. South East Central Railway Bilaspur
15. South Western Railway Hubli
16. West Central Railway Jabalpur
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS IN INDIA
Name Location
1. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport
(Dum Dum Airport) Kolkata
2. Jawaharlal Nehru Airport Mumbai
(Santa Cruz Airport)
3. Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi
4. Amritsar Airport Amritsar
5. Meenambakkam International Airport Chennai
6. Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Thiruvananthapuram
7. Kochi International Airport Kochi
8. LokpriyaGopinath Bordolio International Airport Guwahati
9. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport Ahmedabad
10. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai
11. Goa Airport Goa
12. Bengaluru International Airport Bengaluru
13. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Hyderabad
SCHEDULED INDIAN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES
1. Air India 5. Kingfisher Airlines
2. Air Deccan 6. Spicejet Airlines
3. Jet Airways 7. Indigo
4. Indian Airlines 8. Goair
MAJOR CITIES LOCATED ON RIVER BANKS
Cities Rivers Cities Rivers
Agra Yamuna Srinagar Jhelum
Allahabad Ganga-Yamuna Haridwar Ganga
Saraswati (Sangam) Hyderabad Musi
Ayodhya Saryu Kanpur Ganga
Badrinath Alaknanda Lucknow Gomati
Delhi Yamuna Nasik Godavari
Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Surat Tapti
Kolkata Hubli Varanasi Ganga
Patna Ganga
INDIA’S MAJOR CITIES ASSOCIATED WITH INDUSTRIES
City /Town State Industries
Alwaye Kerala Aluminium, monazite
Anand Gujarat Amul butter, cheese and baby food
Avadi Tamil Nadu Heavy vehicles, tanks
Bhilai Chhattisgarh Steel plant
Bokaro Jharkhand Steel plant
Barauni Bihar Oil refinery
Cambay Gujarat Petroleum
Chittaranjan West Bengal Locomotive
Digboi Assam Petroleum
Durgapur West Bengal Steel plant
Haldia West Bengal Oil refinery
Kalpakkam Tamil Nadu Atomic power plant
Jharia Jharkhand Coal
Kanpur Uttar Pradesh Leather Goods
Ghazipur Uttar Pradesh Opium factory
Muzaffarpur Bihar Thermal power plant
Kapurthala Punjab Railway Coach factory
Khetri Rajasthan Copper
Korba Chhattisgarh Coal mine, aluminium
Narora Uttar Pradesh Atomic power plant
Pinjore Haryana HMT tractors
Perambedur Tamil Nadu Railway coach factory
Pokhran Rajasthan Atomic test site
Sindri Jharkhand Fertilizer
Shri Haricota Andhra Pradesh Satellite station
Tarapur Maharashtra Rocket launching, space research