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1. The first train in the India started in 1853 between Mumbai and Thane (34 km)
2. Railways have been divided into 17 zones. A new 17th zone is Kolkata.
3. Indian Railway network is the largest in Asia and second largest in the world.
4. Indian Railway Board was established in March 1905.
5. Indian Railway was nationalised in 1950.
6. There are three types of train lines in India.
(a) Board Guage (1.67 m)
(b) Meter Guage (1.000 m)
(c) Narrow Guage (0.762-0.610 m)
7. The Management and government of Indian Railways in the hands of the Railway
Board.
8. The longest National highway in India is NH-7 (Varanasi to Kanyakumari)
9. West Bengal has the maximum road density.
10. Maharashtra has the maximum length of roads.
11. Headquarter of Northern area is in the New Delhi. In this area, there is a maximum
length of Rail-Line.
12. Rail-Coach Factory established in January 2009 in Rai Bareli (Uttar Pradesh)
13. No Rail passes from ‘Meghalaya’.
14. Fairy queen is the oldest steam engine of the country which uses coal as fuel.
15. Samjhauta Express (Lahore – Attari) Thar Express (Mumbai – Khokhrapar).
16. These train services are between Indian and Pakistan.
17. Train service between Indian and Bangladesh in ‘Maitri Express’ (Kolkata to Dhaka).
18. There is total 77 National Highway in India.
19. Buses between India and Pakistan:-
(a) Sada-e-Sarhad (Delhi to Lahore)
(b) Karvan-e-Aman (Srinagar to Muzaffarabad)
20. World’s largest aeroplane A-380.
21. Airport authority of India was established on 1st April 1955.
22. Headquarters of Indian Airlines – New Delhi.
23. ‘Saras’ is the 1st passenger aeroplane made in India.
24. Almost 90% trade in India is through water-way.
25. Natural port – Mumbai and Kochin.
26. Kandla (Gujarat) – Tidal Port.
27. ‘Sagar Mala Pariyojana’ is related to the modernization and development of ports.
28. ‘Vivek Express’ India’s largest long-distance train (Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari,
distance – 4286 km) this is also world’s Eighth longest train.
29. IRCTC Ltd. Was incorporated on 27 September 1999 as a Government Company.
30. Indian Railway has been converted the number of trains into 5 digits number since 20
December 2010.
Road Transport
1. The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched in December 2000.
2. National Highway Development Authority – 1998.
3. Pradhan Mantri Bharat Jodo Pariyojana was started on 14 January, 2004.
1. The Two Airport authorities – National Airport Authority (NAA) and International Airport
Authority of India (IAAI) have been merged April 1 1995 as a new organisation named as
an Airport Authority of India (AAI).
2. Greenfield Airports in the North-Eastern Region are Cheitu (Nagaland) and Itanagar
(Arunachal Pradesh).
Transport
India has an all around created transport arrange containing rail, street, waterfront
shipping, air transport, and so forth.
Street/road transport
India has a broad arrangement of streets that assumes an essential job, the extent that
the national financial development of the nation is concerned.
Information:
• Implementation Authorities – NHAI, State PWDs and so forth., BRO, recently framed
NHIDCL for undertakings at outskirt and other key areas.
b. BOT – Annuity
1. Streets assume a critical job in the transportation of merchandise and travelers for
short and medium separations.
8. It causes individuals to travel and convey products starting with one spot then onto
the next, in spots which are not associated by different methods for transport like
uneven zones.
Characterization of Roads
1. National Highways: These streets are of prime significance for the nation and
associate huge urban areas and enormous mechanical focuses. There advancement and
upkeep is the duty of the focal government.
2. State Highways: These streets interface all the vital focuses of industry, exchange and
trade of the states and the national thruways. There obligation of the advancement and
upkeep lies with the state government.
3. Region Roads: These streets associate diverse parts of the area, essential mechanical
focuses and market focuses and ordinarily lead to neighborhood railroad stations. The
duty of advancement and upkeep lies with the nearby government.
4. Provincial Roads: These are streets found in the towns and are generally of two kinds;
pukka (metal) and kacha (non metal). The obligation of upkeep and improvement lies
with the nearby government.
The couple of vital national roadways alongside their courses are talked about
underneath:
Diverse activities
Stage III: Upgrade 12,109 km of national parkways on a Build, Operate and Transfer
(BOT) premise.
Stage IV: Convert existing single path parkways into two paths.
The general length of the quadrilateral is 5,846 km comprising of four/six path express
roadways.
B. New Initiatives
1. Bharat Mala – 5500 km to create streets along the global fringes and seaside regions.
The Government has continuously taken numerous arrangement choices in the part,
intended to encourage the execution of work and make it speedier, increasingly
proficient and straightforward. A portion of the real activities of 2015 are as per the
following:
a) The Exit Policy system licenses concessionaires/engineers to strip 100 percent value
and leave all operational BOT ventures two years after finish of development. This would
help open value from finished ventures making it conceivably accessible for speculation
into new foundation extends the nation over.
b) Fund Infusion to Salvage Languishing Projects: This activity approves the National
Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to mediate in undertakings that are in the propelled
phase of culmination however are adhered because of absence of assets. NHAI has been
approved to give assets to such ventures from inside its general spending plan/corpus
on an advance premise at a pre-decided rate of return.
c) Rationalized pay to concessionaires for mulling NH extends in BOT mode for deferrals
not owing to concessionaires:
e) National Highways Authority of India is raising assets through open issue of tax
exempt, verified, redeemable non-convertible bonds with Face Value of Rs 1,000 each
for a measure of Rs 1,000 crore with an alternative to hold over membership of upto
extra Rs 9,000 crore, accumulating upto a sum of Rs 10,000 crore.
Railways
The Indian railroad framework is the second biggest framework on the planet under the
single administration. Railroads essentially frames the life-line of the nation, taking into
account its requirements for expansive scale development of traffic, both cargo and
traveler, in this manner adding to monetary development just as advancing national mix.
It is a multi – check framework working on three measures – the wide, the meter and the
limited.
• The development and extension of the railroads have been turned out to be valuable
for the monetary and comprehensive development of the economy. It gives a superior
linkage between maker, retailer and purchaser.
• It has assumed a huge job in the advancement of cotton material industry, jute
industry as it furnishes free stream of crude materials with legitimate entrance to
showcase regions.
• Railways have been useful in the advancement of Indian farming. Presently ranchers
can send their rural merchandise to far off spots and can get great wages.
• Railways likewise help in keeping up uniform value level for agrarian items through
better development.
• Railways are assuming noteworthy job in running nation's organization and defending
its opportunity and trustworthiness, as it gives simple development of police, troops,
safeguard types of gear and so forth.
2. Indian Railways has experienced endless and critical under-venture because of which
the system extension and modernization has not occurred at the essential pace
prompting a disintegration of the offer in national cargo and traveler traffic.
4. The high thickness systems of the Indian Railways are confronting intense limit
requirements combined with a low traveler charges in this manner prompting
increments in cargo duties to cross sponsor traveler incomes.
5. Interests in wellbeing have likewise endured because of low interior age of assets.
Ecological symptoms
1. The laying of new tracks requires leeway of woods that influences the biodiversity and
timberland occupants both.
Water Transport
Conduits give the least expensive intends to transportation of wares in mass in light of
the fact that there is no settled expense related with them. Expensive development of
courses isn't required.
Inland conduits
India has around 14,500 km of traversable conduits which contain streams, channels,
backwaters, brooks, and so on. In any case, there is various restriction connected to the
stream transport, viz:
(a) The streams must have enough water streaming in them althrough the year;
(c) The waterways more likely than not balanced out courses;
(e) The waterways must stream the correct way; i.e., the course of prevailing exchange
streams.
• Navigation being consigned to the fourth position because of needs to drinking water,
water system and power (hydel) divisions that outcomes in diminished draft.
• Cost-viable transport mode-It has likewise been evaluated that preoccupation of one
billion ton-km of freight to the IWT mode will diminish transport fuel costs by 5 million
USD and the general transport costs by 9 million USD.
Seaports in India
The coastline of India is specked with 12 Major Ports and around 200 Non-real Ports.
• New Mangalore – Located at the southern tip of Karnataka coast, north of Gurpur
River.
• Kochi – A characteristic harbor on the western shore of Kerala (in Vembanad Lake).
• Chennai – It is the most seasoned fake port on the eastern bank of India.
• Vishakhapatnam – It is the most profound land-bolted and secured port at the shore
of Andhra Pradesh.
• Paradeep – It is a profound water and all climate port on Orissa coast in Mahanadi
delta area.
• Kolkata-Haldia – It is a waterway rine port situated on the west bank of the Hooghly
River.
New activities
A. Sagarmala venture
• Sagarmala will prompt vast scale work age of talented and semi-gifted labor.
Mechanical bunches and stops, substantial ports, sea administrations, coordinations
administrations, and different areas of the economy will be specifically and by
implication affected by port-drove advancement under Sagarmala.
• The Project's goal is to give a situation neighborly, eco-friendly and savvy elective
method of transportation, particularly for mass merchandise, risky products, hostage
freight and over dimensional payload.
• Most real ports were initially intended to deal with explicit classifications of load which
have declined in time while different sorts of cargoes picked up significance. The ports
have not possessed the capacity to conform to the classifications of load which became
the most. There are in this way a few billets for conventional payload, which are under-
used, and just a couple for new freight, which are overutilised.
• Equipment use is extremely poor both on the grounds that hardware is out of date
and ineffectively kept up.
• Over staffing at Indian ports stays widespread and profitability markers in appreciation
of freight and hardware dealing with keep on being poor.
• Documentary methodology identifying with freight taking care of, for example,
traditions leeway necessities are unduly convoluted and tedious. Electronic record
handling is as yet to be presented in every one of the ports.
• Port access offices and game plans for moving in-bound and out-bound payload are
deficient and unacceptable.
• Absence of between port and intra-port challenge which have been conductive to
considerable profitability increments in different nations is missing in Indian because of
poor inland network and an arrangement routine that secured local ports against
aggressive weights.
Air Transport
Avionics as a foundation portion has assumed crucial job in encouraging the
development of business and economy in India. A powerful polite aeronautics set-up is
critical to consistent stream of venture, exchange and the travel industry, with huge
multiplier impacts through the economy.
International Airports:
1. BOT-Toll (Build Operate Transfer – Toll) : The private element meets the forthright
expense of plan, development and repeating cost on task and upkeep. The Private
element recuperates the whole expense alongside the enthusiasm from gathering of
client usage amid the concurred concession time frame. Capital imbuement is accessible
from people in general element. A hazard sharing model is prevalent in this model.
2. BOOT (Build Operate Own Transfer) : This commitment display is like the "Assemble
Operate Transfer" demonstrate aside from that the private element needs to exchange
the office back to the general population segment
3. Joint Venture (JV) : In a PPP plan generally followed in our nation, (for example, for
airplane terminal advancement), the private division body is urged to frame a joint
endeavor organization (JVC) alongside the partaking open area office with the last
holding just minority shares. The private area body will be in charge of the structure;
development and the executives of the activities focused for the PPP and will likewise
acquire a large portion of the speculation prerequisites. People in general division
accomplice's commitment will be by method for settled resources at a pre-decided
esteem, regardless of whether it is land, structures or offices or it might add to the
shareholding capital. It might likewise give confirmations and ensures required by the
private accomplice to raise reserves and to guarantee smooth development and task.
5. BOT (Build Operate Transfer) : The private business assembles and works people in
general office for a concurred timeframe. When the office is operational as concurred, or
toward the finish of the timespan, the private element exchanges the office
proprietorship to the general population, here it might be translated as Government.
Under this classification, the private accomplice is dependable to configuration,
manufacture, work (amid the contracted period) and exchange back the office to
general society division. The private area accomplice is relied upon to bring the money
for the task and assume the liability to build and look after it. People in general part will
either pay a lease for utilizing the office or enable it to gather income from the clients.
The national roadway ventures contracted out by NHAI under PPP mode is a precedent.
This model is an exemplary case for IT industry
6. BOT – Annuity (Build Operate Transfer – Annuity): This model however is all around
acknowledged one doesn't have the support of the Planning Commission of India. In the
event of annuity demonstrate, the expense of building the element is paid to the private
substance or the designer every year after the beginning business tasks of the office.
7. DBFOT (Design Build Finance Operate Transfer): These are different varieties of PPP
and as the classifications feature, the private party accepts the whole accountability for
the structure, develop, money, and work or work and keep up the undertaking for the
time of concession.
8. BOO (Build Own Operate): In a BOO venture, responsibility for task for the most part
stays with the Private element. The administration allows the rights to configuration,
account, assemble, work and keep up the undertaking to a private substance, which
holds responsibility for venture. In BOO the private element is normally not required to
exchange the office back to the legislature
9. Lift (Build Operate Own Share Transfer): This model is fundamentally the same as the
BOOT show, then again, actually there exists a plan or sharing the income to the private
element for a more drawn out time even after the privileges of the private substance are
exchanged to people in general element.
10. Half and half Annuity Model: Under this model, the legislature will give 40 percent of
the undertaking cost to the designer to begin work while the rest of the speculation
must be made by the engineer. The principle goal of the endorsement is to resuscitate
interstate undertakings in the nation by making one more method of conveyance of
parkway ventures. Under this, every significant partner in the PPP course of action — the
Authority, Lender and the Developer, Concessionaire would have an expanded solace
level bringing about restoration of the segment through recharged enthusiasm of
private designers/speculators in roadway tasks and this will convey alleviation in this
way to nationals/explorers in the zone of an individual venture.
a. Better quality since the concessionaire (private part) is to keep up the street for the
time of concession.
b. Early finishing of the undertaking, since the concessionaire could spare premium and
win early toll (on account of BOT venture)/extra annuity portions (on account of Annuity
venture).
d. The Client (Government/NHAI) does not have the weight of keeping up the thruways.
f. The private segment has increasingly adaptable acquirement and basic leadership
systems and consequently, it can accelerate usage endeavors.