indian transportation & ports system section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

National Highway-1 (NH-1), also known as SrinagarLeh Highway, is a National Highway entirely within the state of Jammu & Kashmir in North India that connects Srinagar to Leh in Ladakh and is maintained by Project Vijayak of the Border Roads Organization. It is one of the highest roads in the world.

Running between the Indian cities of Leh and Manali, it opens up an inhospitable part of the Himalaya Mountains.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (c)

The Golden Quadrilateralproject was launched by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2001.The Golden Quadrilateral is a highway network connecting many of the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India. It is the largest highway project in India and the fifth longest in the world.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (e)

The Indian Railways has three gauges: broad gauge (1.676 meters), meters gauge (1 metre) and narrow gauge (0.762 and 0.610 metre). In 1950-51, the combined route kilometres of these gauges were 53,597.

In 1995-96 the route length rose to 62,915 km showing a total increase of 9,336 m which represents an increase of 17.42 per cent and an average annual increase of 0.38 per cent which was the highest in the Sixth Plan (2.9 per cent), followed by the First Plan (1.3 per cent).