Tag: importance of transportation system

According to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), at present India boasts of a huge network of 33 lakh kilometres, making it the second largest road network in the world. This network, which includes both paved and unpaved roads, is categorised as National Highways, State Highways, major District roads, Rural and Other roads.

The Quick Mail Service (QMS) is one of the great innovations adopted by the Indian Post office in recent years to facilitate the quick transmission of inland mail. This service was inaugurated on 15th April 1975. 

Speed post is means of India’s postal service. Speed post is nothing but the deliverable commodity is delivered more quickly than the normal time it usually takes. They are more reliable and faster.

STD and ISD are associated with telephone network.

STD: Stands for subscriber trunk dialing. It was called when subscribers used to make long distance calls without operators assistance. But these days we hardly hear this as calling became very easy with introduction of new advanced networks.

ISD: Stands for International subscriber dialing. This term is used when calls are made out of the country.

Post offices in India have unique identification number for safe delivery of mail called PIN. PIN stands for Postal Index Number. This post code system is very much essential in India for safe and easy delivery. It is a six digit number.

Communication system refers to the channels by which exchange of ideas, information, news and views takes place between different individuals, groups and institutions.Therefore radio,email and mobile are all means of communication.

The largest number of newspapers published in the country are in Hindi, followed by English and Urdu.

The early postal system was used only for official purposes.