what is highway transportation? and Its importance

Highway transportation is the means of detail
distribution between homes, shops, factories,
e.t.c. It is only the roads which can carry
goods from and to aerodromes, harbours and
railway stations. Considering the utility of
roads anywhere in the different parts of a
country, they can be rightly compared to
arteries in a human body just as arteries
maintain man's health by providing
circulation of blood ; similarly roads promote
nation's wealth by keeping its people and
goods moving. Thus, we see that progress
and well-being of a nation depends much on
roads. In fact, roads are the life lines of
nation's economy.
The imporatance or necessity of highway
transportation can be easily judged from the
following purposes or advantages of roads:-
1. They facilitate conveyance of people,
goods, raw-materials, manufactured
articles, etc. speedily and easily in the
different parts of a country.
2. They act as the only source of
communication in regions of high altitude
i.e in mountainous regions.
3. They help in growth of trade and other
economy activities in and outside the
villages and towns by establishing contact
between towns and villages.
4. They help in providing efficient
distribution of agricultural products and
natural resources all over the country.
5. They help in price stabilization of
commodities due to mobility of products
all over the country.
6. They help in social and cultural
advancement of people and making the
villagers active and alert members of the
community.
7. They help in promoting the cultural and
social ties among people living in different
part of a country and thus strengthen the
national unity.
8. They help in providing improved medical
facilities quickly to human beings,
especially to those who live in rural areas.
9. They provide more employment
opportunities.
10. They enhance land value and thus bring
better revenue.
11. They serve as feeders for Airways,
Waterways and Railways.
12. They help in reducing distress among the
people, caused due to famine, by
supplying them food and clothing quickly.
Lastly, it can be sad that roads are the
symbol of country's progress and thus
development made by any country can be
judged by the quality and network of it's road
system.

Burma railway

The Burma Railway, also known as the
Death Railway, the Burma-Siam Railway, the
Thailand–Burma Railway and similar
names, was a 415 kilometres (258 mi)
railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and
Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar),
built by the Empire of Japan in 1943, to
support its forces in the Burma campaign
of World War II . The line was closed in
1947, but the section between Nong Pla
Duk and Nam Tok was reopened ten years
later in 1957. [1]
Forced labour was used in its construction.
About 180,000 Asian civilian labourers
(mainly romusha) and 60,000 Allied
prisoners of war (POWs) worked on the
railway. Of these, around 90,000 Asian
civilian labourers and 12,399 Allied POWs
died as a direct result of the project. The
dead POWs included 6,318 British
personnel, 2,815 Australians , 2,490 Dutch,
about 356 Americans, and about 20 POWs

$100 million worth Hindu temple built near Hollywood

One of the biggest Hindu temples in the US,
built at a whopping cost of $100 million near
the Hollywood city in Los Angeles has
become a major draw for its grandeur and
environment-friendly design, since its
inauguration.
The 68th Swaminarayan temple of
Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam
Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) has been
built using 35,000 pieces of meticulously
hand carved Italian Carrara marble and
Indian Pink Sandstone, temple officials said.
BAPS said that it is first earthquake-proof
Mandir in the world and is expected to last
for 1,000 years.
“The Mandir is a beautiful testament to the
hard work of your congregation who has
spent several years to build this place of
worship,” Chino Hill Mayor Peter Rogers said.
“The Mandir and Cultural Center will indeed
be a place that Chino Hills can be proud of
for so many, many generations,” he said, at
the temple’s inauguration on December 23.
Using cutting edge technology to protect it
from earthquakes, the temple encompasses
five pinnacles, two large domes, four
balconies, 122 pillars and 129 archways.
The 6,600 hand-carved motifs depict a
mosaic of tales of inspiration, devotion and
dedication, along with historical figures from
Hinduism, temple officials said.
“Artisans created the carvings in India with
great love, skill and patience before the
pieces were shipped to Chino Hills,” a BAPS
statement said.
The Mandir is situated on a 20-acre site,
complete with 91 foot lotus-shaped reflection
pond, a Cultural Centre, gymnasium and
classrooms.
It is designed to “calm the mind and open it,”
said Ronak Patel, a volunteer of the BAPS
Swaminarayan Sanstha.
“The upper structure of the complex is
protected from earthquake damage by
separating it from the base with a series of
40 base-isolator units,” it said.
“The Mandir also uses a solar power system
to generate electricity and reduce adverse
effects on the environment. The Mandir
combines the best of traditional stone art and
architecture and the best of modern
technology,” said Divyesh Patel, a member of
the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

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