NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Geography Chapter 7 Lifelines of National Economy

Q Which mode of transportation reduces transshipment losses and delays?

(a) Railways
(b) Roadways
(c) Pipelines
(d) Waterways

Ans (c) Pipelines

Q Which one of the following states is not connected with the H.V. J. pipeline?

(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat
(d) Uttar Pradesh

Ans (b) Maharashtra

Q Find out places linked by the National Highway 2 and National Highway 3.

Ans National Highway 2 runs from Delhi to Kolkata. Some of the places linked by this highway are : Faridabad in Haryana; Mathura, Agra, Etawah, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh; Mohania, Sasaram, Dehri on Sone and Aurangabad in Bihar; Barhi and Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Asansol, Durgapur, Bardhaman and Kolkata in West Bengal.

National Highway 3 runs from Agra to Mumbai. Some of the places linked by this highway are Dholpur in Rajasthan, Morena, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Guna, Indore and Mhow in Madhya Pradesh, and Dhule, Malegaon, Nasik, Igatpuri, Shahpur, Bhiwandi, Thane and Mumbai in Maharashtra.

Q Find out the current Railway zones and their headquarters. Also locate the headquarters of Railway zones on the map of India.

Ans The current Railway zones and their headquarters are given below.

ZONES AND DIVISIONS
1.	Central Railway	CR	1951	3905	Mumbai	Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur
2.	East Central Railway	ECR	2001	3628	Hajipur	Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur
3.	East Coast Railway	ECOR	2001	2572	Bhubaneswar	Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam
4.	Eastern Railway	ER	1952	2414	Kolkata	Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda
5.	North Central Railway	NCR	2003	3151	Allahabad	Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi
6.	North Eastern Railway	NER	1952	3667	Gorakhpur	Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi
7.	North Western Railway	NWR	2002	5459	Jaipur	Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur
8.	Northeast Frontier Railway	NFR	1958	3907	Guwahati	Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding, Tinsukia
9.	Northern Railway	NR	1952	6968	Delhi	Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad
10.	South Central Railway	SCR	1966	5803	Secunderabad	Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada
11.	South East Central Railway	SECR	2003	2447	Bilaspur	Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur
12.	South Eastern Railway	SER	1955	2631	Kolkata	Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
13.	South Western Railway	SWR	2003	3177	Hubli	Hubli, Bengaluru, Mysore
14.	Southern Railway	SR	1951	5098	Chennai	Chennai, Trichy, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram
15.	West Central Railway	WCR	2003	2965	Jabalpur	Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
16.	Western Railway	WR	1951	6182	Mumbai	Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara