Transportation System Of India — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

There are 9 PIN regions in the country. The first 8 are geographical regions and the digit 9 is reserved for the Army Postal Service.

The National highways system is the responsibility of Central Government. Under the National Highways Act, 1956, National Highways became the responsibility of the central government.

National Highway (NH2) connects 6 states of North India i.e. Delhi, Haryana, U.P. Bihar, Jharkhand & West Bengal constituting a portion of Grand Trunk Road.

NH 6 passes through Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa. NH6 ran through Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal state in India.

National Highway 44 – It is the longest national highway in India with a length of 3,745 kilometres running from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the South.

National Highway from Amritsar to Calcutta via Delhi is called National highway No. 2. It was called Grand Trunk road and was constructed by Sher Shah.

With reference to National Highways Development Project (NHDP), the following statement that is true is Belgaum and Nellore lie on the Golden Quadrilateral. It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south). Other cities connected by this network include Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Balasore, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack,Durgapur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Pune, Surat, Vijayawada, Ajmer, Vizag, Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Agra, Mathura, Dhanbad, Gandhinagar, Udaipur, and Vadodara.

NH44 with a length of about 3,745 km is the longest national highway in India. Although NH7 running over 12,369 km is longest "Single" national highway in India. NH44 is a merger of different national highways and runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari.

Sasaram is not located on National Highway-2 (NH-2). National Highway 19 a National Highway in India that links Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh with Patna in Bihar. Sasaram is located in NH-19.

NH 5 Chennai and Visakhapatnam. NH -5 is situated in Visakhapatnam, India.

Golden Quadrilateral Project was initiated by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Its main objective is to connect major industrial areas (regions) of the country to assist smooth transportation and communication. It connects Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.

Zoji La is located in western section of Himalayan Mountain ranges and lies on National Highway-1D between Leh and Kashmir valley.

If a truck has to carry goods from Delhi to Bhopal via Gwalior, by National Highways (NH) following the shortest route, it has to go by NH 2, NH 3 and NH 12.

The Karakoram Highway connects China-Pakistan. The Karakorum Highway connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft) above the sea level. The road is one of the scariest and hair raising jeep trip in the world.

The National Highway - 1 connects Delhi to Amritsar. The strip from Amritsar to Jalandhar is four-lane and from Jalandhar to Delhi.

The commodity which accounts for the maximum volume of goods transported by the railways in India is Coal. The Railways has achieved its highest-ever freight loading in fiscal 2018, supported largely by the additional transport of commodities such as coal, cement and containers. Transporting goods by train is cheaper.

Rourkela Steel Plant is located in Rourkela, Odisha. It is closer to Paradip port when compared with other ports. As iron is heavy and weighty, it is exported from nearby Pradip port, Odisha.

Kandla & Kochi are located on the west coast of India. Kandla in Gujarat, Kochi in Kerala whereas Paradip is in Odisha & Haldia is in West Bengal on Eastern Coast.

Kandla was developed as an off spring port. As due to partition India lost important Karachi port to Pakistan so Mumbai port was over burdened with excess work. This effect was neutralised by diverting trade to Kandla port which situate in Kutch district Gujarat.

The correct sequence of hill stations according to height above mean sea level in descending order are Shimla-2,276 m, Kodaikanal-2,133 m, Darjeeling-2,042 m and Mahabaleshwar-1,353 m.

Vishakkapatnam (Vizag) is used for bulk transportation of iron to East Asian countries such as Japan & South Korea.

HBJ pipeline also known as HVJ pipeline was started in 1986 by GAIL (India) limited to transport gas to fertilizer plants in U.P. HBJ stands for Hazira - Vijaipur - Jagdishpur. Vijaypur is also termed as Bijeypur.

Jamnagar is not the port town of Gujarat. Bedi Port lies around 8 km from Jamnagar Railway Station on the south-eastern coast of Gulf of Kutch. It is an all-weather trading hub in the Arabian Sea and one of the most prominent ones in Jamnagar.

Jawahar Lal Nehru port is also knows as Nhava Sheva port. It is located to the east of Mumbai , Maharashtra on Arbian Sea.

Riverin ports are the one's which are further inside from the sea coasts along the stream of a river. Such as Kolkata port is riverine port on river Hooghly.

Air travel has become very important for the north eastern part of India mainly because surface transport routes have to go around Bangladesh.

The consequences of the policy of exporting raw materials and food grains from India to Britain were that it raised the prices of raw materials, it brought enormous profits to unscrupulous businessman and It denuded the country of her agricultural surplus.

The correct sequence of the Indian ports from north to south is Kandla - Haldia - Paradeep - Kochi.

Iron Ore is the major item of export from Paradeep Port.

Chennai Port is an artificial deep seaport as it has been prepared artificially by cutting crust of continental shelf lying under shallow sea zone. Natural deep sea ports are found on Western Ghats of India due to thin coast line where as due to wide continental shelf on easter side, ports here are artificially built.

Kandla port is located in Kutch, Gujarat near Gandhidham city on Gulf of Kutch. It was built to compensate the loss of Karachi port to Pakistan.

Bangalore is at the highest altitude above mean sea level. Bangalore is the city which is 937 metres above sea level, Delhi is 218 metres sea level, Jodhpur is 230 metres and Nagpur is 247.5 metres above the sea level.

The last three digits of a PIN code represent sorting district. The first digit of the PIN indicates the zone. The second digit indicates the sub-zone, and the third digit indicates the sorting district within that zone.

As the population increases, the demanad for almost all commodities & energy sources increases, same is the case in India, even rapid industrialisation requires power supply. But till date energy produced in terms of electricity is less than what is required to be consumed.

The following states in the decreasing order by length of surfaced roads are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

Iron ore is mined from the hills of Kudremukh in Chikmagaluru District of Karnataka in Western Ghats. From here it is transported to the port of Mangalore in the form slurry through pipeline for exports.

The 'Grand Trunk Road' connects Kolkata and Amritsar. G.T road is a part of India's Golden Quadrilateral project (4–6 lane highway ) Connecting Amritsar via Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Dhanbad, Asansol with Kolkata.

The Buckingham Canal, which has been declared a National Waterway of India recently, is a canal running from Vijayawada to Villupuram. The Buckingham Canal is a 420 km long salt water navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India from the vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu declared national waterway of India.

Atmospheric pressure is inversely related to altitude — it decreases as elevation increases . Here is the correct order of the places in decreasing atmospheric pressure: 1. Mumbai (3) – Located at sea level, hence has the highest atmospheric pressure . 2. Delhi (4) – Situated in the plains at a moderate elevation, so pressure is slightly lower than Mumbai. 3. Shimla (1) – A hill station at a high altitude, so it has lower pressure than both Mumbai and Delhi. 4. Gangtok (2) – Located at a higher elevation than Shimla, thus has the lowest atmospheric pressure among the four. Therefore, the correct decreasing order of atmospheric pressure is: 3 (Mumbai), 4 (Delhi), 1 (Shimla), 2 (Gangtok).

Chandigarh in India is not located in Golden Quadrilateral Road Network. Golden Quadrilateral Road network connects 4 major metropolis cities of India i.e, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai & Mumbai to enhance communication & transportation.