Communications
government-controlled postal service remains the backbone of India & Rsquo; s communications industry, handling billions of letters and parcels each year. The post also brings money orders in large quantities, especially in the service of sending workers home part of their pay, and has a large number of savings certificate programs for the same population. The telephone system has been expanded at a rapid pace since the middle of 1980. India had 38 main telephone lines per 1,000 people in 2001, compared with 667 for the United States . In the 1990s, a large program to create "public services" that can handle domestic and international long-distance telephone calls placed to a wide audience in all parts of the country. Approximately 90,000 public call offices were established by the middle of the 1990s in small towns and even small roadside locations.
Around 34,000 newspapers are published in India , 10 percent of their newspapers, including a number of publications in English. The Times of India, the Indian Express, and others publish from multiple cities, other important documents contain the Hindu, Deccan Herald, and Statesman. Newspapers are privately owned in India .
de; middle of the 1990s the Indian government opened the one-off public property broadcasts on radio and television industry to competition. Since the beginning of the 1990s, there is an exponential increase in the number of viewers, encouraged in part by the spread of private cable systems and television broadcasts via satellite to news, sports and entertainment from around the world. At least 50 million TV viewers in India watching television programs from Pakistan .
