Question

What are the uses of roads in India?

Answer 1

Hint: India has the second largest road network in the world, stretching a total of 5.89 million kilometres. The road system delivers 64.5% of all goods. It also transports 90% of India's total passenger traffic who utilise this system for communication.

Complete Answer: Roads make a significant contribution to economic growth and development as well as bringing significant social advantages. They play an important role in making a nation grow and evolve.

Uses of Roads:

1. Roads play a very significant role in the transportation of goods and passengers for short and medium distances.
2. It is comparatively inexpensive to build and maintain roads.
3. Road transport system establishes easy communication between farms, fields, factories and markets.
4. Roads can negotiate high slopes and sharp bends which railways cannot do. As roads can be built in hilly areas also.
5. Roads act as incredible feeders to railways.
6. Road transport is more adaptable than the railway transport. Buses and trucks may be halted at any place for loading and unloading passengers and goods whereas trains will only stop at selective stations.
7. Perishable products like vegetables, fruits and milk are transported more effortlessly and quickly by roads than by railways.

Note:
-The North-South Corridor which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari is the NH 44. It is the longest national highway in India.
-India has a total of 200 highways.
-The longest roadway in the world is the Pan-American highway.