The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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       voice and data traffic (2004)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68 (1998)

      Radios:

       116 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations: 562 (of which 82 stations have 1 kW or greater power and 480 stations have less than 1 kW of power) (1997)

      Televisions:

       63 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .in

      Internet hosts:

       86,871 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       43 (2000)

      Internet users:

       18.481 million (2003)

      Transportation India

      Railways:

       total: 63,140 km (15,994 km electrified)

       broad gauge: 45,099 km 1.676-m gauge

       narrow gauge: 14,776 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,265 km 0.762-m gauge and

       0.610-m gauge (2003)

      Highways:

       total: 3,319,644 km

       paved: 1,517,077 km

       unpaved: 1,802,567 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       14,500 km

       note: 5,200 km on major rivers and 485 km on canals suitable for

       mechanized vessels (2004)

      Pipelines:

       gas 6,171 km; liquid petroleum gas 1,195 km; oil 5,613 km; refined

       products 5,567 km (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Chennai (Madras), Cochin, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata

       (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Vishakhapatnam

      Merchant marine:

       total: 306 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 6,555,507 GRT/11,069,791 DWT

       by type: bulk 90, cargo 77, chemical tanker 14, combination bulk 1,

       combination ore/oil 2, container 10, liquefied gas 10,

       passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 93, roll on/roll off 1,

       short-sea/passenger 2, specialized tanker 1

       registered in other countries: 63 (2004 est.)

       foreign-owned: China 2, Portugal 1

      Airports:

       333 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 234 over 3,047 m: 14 2,438 to 3,047 m: 47 914 to 1,523 m: 74 under 914 m: 21 (2004 est.) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 78

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 99

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 3

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 9

       under 914 m: 45 (2004 est.)

       914 to 1,523 m: 42

      Heliports:

       20 (2003 est.)

      Military India

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (including naval air arm), Air Force, Coast Guard,

       various security or paramilitary forces (including Border Security

       Force, Assam Rifles, National Security Guards, Indo-Tibetan Border

       Police, Special Frontier Force, Central Reserve Police Force,

       Central Industrial Security Force, Railway Protection Force, and

       Defense Security Corps)

      Military manpower - military age and obligation:

       16 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 293,677,117 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 172,153,371 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 11,174,415 (2004 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $14,018.8 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       2.4% (2003)

      Transnational Issues India

      Disputes - international:

       Kashmir remains the world's most highly militarized territorial

       dispute with portions under the de facto administration of China

       (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir

       and Northern Areas), but recent discussions and confidence-building

       measures among parties are beginning to defuse tensions; India does

       not recognize Pakistan's ceding lands to China in the 1965 boundary

       agreement; disputes with Pakistan over Indus River water sharing and

       the terminus of the Sir Creek Estuary at the mouth of the Rann of

       Kutch, which prevents maritime boundary delimitation; Pakistani maps

       continue to show Junagadh claim in Indian Gujarat State; most of the

       rugged, militarized boundary with China is in dispute, but sides

       have committed to begin resolution with discussions on the least

       disputed Middle Sector; Joint Border Committee with Nepal continues

       to work on resolution of minor disputed boundary sections;

       discussions with Bangladesh remain stalled to delimit a small

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