KSEEB Class 10 SSLC Geography Chapter 9 Indian Transport and Communication Notes

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KSEEB Class 10 Geography Chapter 9 Indian Transport and Communication Transport

Transport means movement of goods, service and passengers from one place to another.
Transport plays a very important role in the development of all sectors of human activities namely the primary sector, the secondary sector and the tertiary sector.
There are three modes of transport:

  • Road Transport
  • Water Transport
  •  Airways
  • Roads are the most ancient and universal means of transport. They play a vital role in the economic growth of a nation.
    On the basis of physical structure roads can be divided into two types:
  • Metalled roads which are constructed with cement concrete or asphalt.
  •  Unmetalled roads which are common in rural areas.
    On the basis of construction and maintenance roads are classified into five types:
  •  Golden Quadrilateral and Super Highways

Kseeb Class 10 Sslc Geography Indian Transport And Communication Notes

National Highways

  •  District Roads
  • State Highways
  • Village Roads
  • Railways are the other important mode of land transport. They are very useful to carry heavy goods and large number of passengers over a long distance.
  • Railways form the largest public sector undertaking in India. It has a network of about 7031 stations and a length of 64,015 Kms.
  • The railways are divided into 16 zones for the purpose of efficient management.
  • Pipelines are a new mode of land transport.
  • They are mostly used to transport crude oil from oil field to refineries, natural gas and mineral slurry.

Indian Transport And Communication Class 10 Sslc Notes

Waterways can be divided into two types:

  • Inland waterways and
  • Ocean waterways.
  • There are 14 major ports in India, of which six are along the west coast and seven along the east coast.
  • There are 141 airports in India of which 28 designated International Airports, 88 domestic airports and 25 civilenclaves at defence airfields.
  • The Airport Authority of India manages these airports.

KSEEB Class 10 SSLC Geography Chapter 9 Indian Transport And Communication Notes

Sslc Geography Chapter 9 Notes Karnataka Board

Class 10 SSLC Geography Indian Transport And Communication KSEEB Notes  Communication

  1. Conveyance of messages from one person to another or from one place to another is called ‘communication’.
    They may be broadly divided into two categorized:
  2. Personal
  3.  Mass communication.
    Postal Service is one of the most important communication system that existed since a long time in India.
    Telecommunication: It refers to communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, Fax etc. In India, telecommunication network has reached almost every remote corner.
    Radio and Television play a very important role in mass communication.
    All India Radio (AIR) was founded in 1936. TV broadcasting was started under the name of Doordarshan (DD) at Delhi in 1959.

Class 10 Kseeb Geography Chapter 9 Summary And Notes

Newspapers are very important communication service, which come under print media.
The development of electronic technology and space service has brought a great change in communication media.
Artificial satellite has marked a new era in the history of global telecommunication. Radio and TV networking over India are done through satellite technology.
GIS is a computer based system which can accumulate and interpret the data on the Earth’s surface.
The GPS indicates the location of a stationary or moving object or person through pointing out the latitude and longitude and height above sea level.
The Remote Sensing Technology collects information regarding the Earth’s surface.

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