India Facts 30

ഇന്ത്യയിലെ റോഡ് ഗതാഗതം, ജലഗതാഗതം എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• Public work deparment started in Kerala on

                 1860 in Travancore

• Roads in Malabar built by

                 Tipu Sultan

• Institution started for doing researchs in transportation sector

                 Natpac

• First bus service in Travancore started in

                 1938

• KSRTC started on

                 1965

• Biggest public sector agency in Kerala

                 KSRTC

• Bus service started as part of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal mission

                 KURTC

• HQ of KURTC is at

                 Thevara

• Cheapest way of transportation 

                 Water Transportation

• No of national water ways in India

                 6

• First and biggest national water way in India

                 National Water way 1 (Allahabad- Haldia, 1620 Km)

• HQ of national inland navigation institute

                 Patna

• Only national water way through Kerala

                 National Water way 3 (Kollam- Kottapuram)

• Length of National waterway 3

                 205 Km

• First National highway in Kerala

                 NH 544 (NH 47)

• Longest national highway passing through Kerala

                 NH 66

• Place in Kerala which is depending 90% water transport

                 Kuttanad

• HQ of Inland water ways authority of India

                 Noida, UP

• Channel which is connecting Indian ocean and bay of Bangal

                 Sethusamudram Channel

• Institution in charge of Manufacturing of Sethusamudram project

                 Thoothukudi Port trust
                                                                                               (To be Continued...)