Airways and Communication :Life Line Of National Economy .NCERT Notes in Geography

Airways

The world’s first air-mail service was started in India at Allahabad; on 18th Feb 1911 on the occasion of Kumbh mela
Regular airmail services were started by Tata Sons Ltd, between Karachi and Madrasand.
On 24th Jan 1920 Royal air force started regular airmail services
Urmila K.Parikh became the first Indian woman to get a pilot’s license.
in 1945 the Deccan Airways was founded – jointly owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad and Tata.Its first flight began in July 1946.
All the airway companies were nationalized in 1953 and were put under two corporations namely – Indian Airlines and Air India.
Air India provides international air services.
Pawanhans Helicopters Ltd. provides helicopter services to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in its offshore operations, to inaccessible areas and difficult terrains like the north-eastern states and the interior parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand

Kalinga Airlines was a private airline based in Calcutta, India.
It was founded in 1947 by aviator and politician Biju Patnaik, who was also the airline’s chief pilot.
The airline was nationalized and merged into Indian Airlines in 1953.
It restarted operations as a non-scheduled charter operator in 1957 and flew passengers and cargo until 1972.

Communication is the act of transferring information from one place, person or group to another.
The Indian postal network is one of the largest network in the world.
It handles parcels ,personal written communications.
Cards and envelopes are considered first–class mail and are airlifted between stations covering both land and air.
The second–class mail includes book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals. They are carried by surface mail, covering land and water transport.

James Augustus Hickey is considered as the “father of Indian press”
He was the founder of the first Indian newspaper from Calcutta, the `Bengal Gazette` or the `Calcutta General Advertise` in January 1780.

Mass communication provides entertainment and creates awareness among people about various national programmes and policies.
It includes radio, television, newspapers, magazines, books and films.
All India Radio (Akashwani) broadcasts a variety of programmes in national, regional and local languages for various categories of people.
Doordarshan, the national television channel of India, is one of the largest terrestrial networks in the world.

India is the largest producer of feature films in the world It produces short films; video feature films and video short films.
The Central Board of Film Certification is the authority to certify both Indian and foreign films