Communication

  • Indian postal network is the largest in the world, handles parcels as well as personal written.
  • First-class mail - Cards and envelopes.
  • Second-class mail - book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals.
  • Six mail channels have been introduced
    • Rajdhani Channel
    • Metro Channel
    • Green Channel
    • Business Channel
    • Bulk Mail Channel and
    • Periodical Channel.
  • India has largest telecom networks in Asia.
  • Government has made special provision to extend twenty-four hours STD facility to every village in the country.
  • Newspapers are published in about 100 languages and dialects.
  • Largest producer of feature films in the world. Central Board of Film Certification is the authority to certify both Indian and foreign films.
Digital India - IT (Indian Talent) + IT (Information Technology) = IT (India Tomorrow).
Personal Communication System
  • Internet is the most effective and advanced one.
  • Through internet and e-mail provides an efficient access to information at a comparatively low cost.
Mass Communication System
  • Mass communication - radio, television, newspapers, magazines, books and films.
Radio
  • Start India in 1923 by Radio Club of Bombay.
  • 1930 under the Indian Broadcasting System it changed to All India Radio in 1936 and to Akashwani in 1957.
    • All India Radio (Akashwani) broadcasts a variety of programmes in national, regional and local languages for various categories of people, spread over different parts of the country.
Television (T.V.)
  • Audio-visual medium. Limited only in national capital, began in 1959.
  • After 1972, Several other centres became operational.
  • 1976, TV was delinked from All India Radio (AIR) and got a separate identity as Doordarshan (DD), the national television channel.
  • After INSAT-IA (National Television-DD1) became operational, Common National Programmes (CNP) were started for the entire network and its services were extended to the backward and remote rural areas.
Satellite Communication
  • Communication in themselves, regulate the use of other means of communication
  • Satellite images can be used for the weather forecast, monitoring of natural calamities, surveillance of border areas, etc.
  • Satellite system in India can be grouped into two: Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite System (IRS). The INSAT, which was established in 1983, is a multi-purpose satellite system for telecommunication, meteorological observation and for various other data and programmes.
  • IRS satellite - launching of IRS-IA in March 1988 from Vaikanour in Russia.
  • India own Launching Vehicle PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle).
  • National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) at Hyderabad provides facilities for acquisition of data and its processing.

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