Transportation
India has a network of railway lines covering the whole country. The network is the largest in Asia and one of the largest in the world. All lines are publicly controlled. In 2000 the length of the track which was operated 62,759 km (38,997 miles). The system carried 3.9 billion passengers and 365 million tonnes of freight per year in the middle of the 1990s.
Against 1999, and there were 3.3 million kilometers (2.1 million kilometers) of roads India , of which 46 percent were paved. National highways make up about 2 percent of the total length of the road and contribute about 40 percent of the road. Each country has a public bus company. The major Indian ports, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai , Cochin And Vishakhapatnam , are served by freight and passenger ships to all parts of the world. To accommodate the increased foreign trade, port facilities to modernize and expand. India has a large merchant fleet, about half of those in public ownership under the Shipping Corporation of India . An extensive network of routes linking the main cities of the country. As part of the economic reforms of 1991, India open air links with domestic private companies to compete with publicly owned Indian airlines, with a result of rising air service.
