UPSC Prelims PYQs – Transport & Communication (Indian Geography)

Instructions:

– Previous year UPSC CSE prelims questions from the topic ‘Transport & Communication (Indian Geography)’ are given here for practice.
– Each question carries 2 marks.
– There is 1/3 negative marking for incorrect answers.

Your participation in this quiz can help you to analyse the question pattern for the UPSC civil services prelims exam.

Best of luck! Let’s get started.


1. Consider the following pairs:

Port Well known as
1. Kamarajar Port First major port in India registered as a company
2. Mundra Port Largest privately owned port in India
3. Visakhapatnam Largest container port in Port India

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2023 Prelims]

 
 
 
 

2. Between India and east Asia, the navigation­time and distance can be greatly reduced by which of the following?

  1. Deepening the Malacca straits between Malaysia and Indonesia.
  2. Opening a new canal across the kra isthmus between the gulf of Siam and Andaman sea.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2011 Prelims]

 
 
 
 

3. Consider the following pairs:

National Highway: Cities connected

  1. NH4: Chennai and Hyderabad
  2. NH 6: Mumbai and Kolkata
  3. NH 15: Ahmedabad and Jodhpur

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2014 Prelims]

 
 
 
 

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