Infrastructure
Physical infrastructure –roads
Road inventory The state is well connected to its six neighbouringstates and other parts of India through 14 National Highways (NH); it accounts for about six percent of the total NH network in India.
Its district centresare linked through 114 State Highways (SH).
Total road network of NH, SH and district roads is about 2,07,379 km, of which 1,27,541 km is surfaced (61.5 percent)
Road Type Road length (km)
National highways 4,396
State highways 28,311
District roads 19,801
Physical infrastructure –ports
Major ports
New Mangalore Port
KarwarPort
New Mangalore Port (2007–08) Total traffic handled 36.69 MTA
Total imports handled 19.96 MTA
Total exports handled 16.73 MTA
Number of vessels 1,015
Cruise vessels 18
KarwarPort (2007–08)
Total cargo handled 2.7 MTA
Total imports and exports 6 MTA
Revenue US$ 2.7 million
25 Private liquid cargo tanks 75,000 MT
Physical infrastructure –airports
International airports
The state has five domestic airports at Bangalore, Mangalore, Hubli, Mysore and Belgaum.
International flights operate from the international airports at Bangalore and Mangalore.
New BengaluruInternational Airport developed under a Public Private Partnership framework at Devanahalli, in the outskirts of Bangalore started operations in May 2008.
Minor airports/low cost airports
New minor airports proposed at Hassan, Bellary and Gulbarga; currently at various stages of approvals/ completion.
Government and private sector companies also proposing low cost airports costing about US$ 4.8 million per airport at multiple locations in state.
Bengaluru International Airport, Devanahalli
Commissioned: May 2008
Area: 4,050 acres (16.4 km2)
Capacity: 11 million paxp.a.
Aircraft Movements: 63,500
Fourth busiest airport in India (after Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai)
Physical infrastructure–railways
Rail inventory
State well-connected to other parts of the country
Railway network of 3,172 km (2007–2008)
Intrastate rail connectivity, especially on the key lines for passenger and freight movements, needs to be augmented.
Urban transport
Metro rail and mono-rail projects are underway in Bangalore. The first phase of the Namma Metro as it is called will cover a total of 42.3 km.
Ongoing projects
Hassan–Sakhleshwar–Mangalore line gauge conversion, under progress.
Key connectivity projects, doubling of Mysore–Bangalore railway line, Gadan–Bagalokot, Bangalore–Hassan to be taken up in near future.
Physical infrastructure–power
Generation: KPCL and IPPs (GMR/Jindal/ Bhoruka)
KPCL has an installed capacity of over 9315 MW
Number of consumers: 16.3 million.
Plants for another 4,000 MW are in the pipeline
Independent power producers have installed capacity of 2,005 MW
- KPCL -Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd
- IPPs is Independent Power Producers
Transmission: Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL)
Area covered 192,000 km2
Sub stations 1,205
Transmission lines 28,000 km,33KV, 130,000 km of 11 KV
LT lines 451855 km
Distribution transformers 1,50,000
Physical infrastructure–power
Distribution/supply: Electricity Supply Companies (ESCOMs)
Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM)
Mangalore Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM)
HubliElectricity Supply Company (HESCOM)
Gulbarga Electric Supply Company (GESCOM)
ChamundeshwariElectric Supply Corporation (CESC)
Source: ―Power sector at a glance as on July 2009‖, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited website, accessed 23 September 2009
Physical infrastructure–telecom
Leading telecom companies in the sectors of telecommunication network, basic telephony services (both wire line and wireless) and networking services for telecommunication equipment are operating in the state.
Entire State is networked via Optic FibreCables (OFC) by the sate-run BSNL (formerly DOT) as well as private companies like Bharti, Reliance, VSNL and TATA Tele Services.
Last Mile Access is provided by BSNL as well as TATA Tele Services in various parts of the state. Bhartiand Reliance Communications provide the Last Mile Access directly to the customer in all major cities in Karnataka.
Seven new telephone exchanges were opened in 2007–2008
Active telecom service providers in Karnataka
BSNL, BhartiAirtel, Reliance Communications,Vodafone Essar, Spice Communications,Tata Teleservices Ltd
Key statistics (2007–08)
Cellular subscribers :About 10 million
Internet/broadband
subscribers: About 0.8 million
Telecom towers:About 14,000
Post offices:9826
Telephone connections provided: 2610
Telephone exchanges: 2727
Industrial infrastructure
Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) and Karnataka State Industrial Investment Development Corporation (KSIIDC) are jointly responsible for the development of industrial infrastructure in the state.
Directorate of Commerce and Industries has set up district and talukindustrial centresacross the state to facilitate investment.
The Government of Karnataka is promoting the development of several SEZs across Karnataka such as pharmaand biotech SEZ, food processing and agro-based industries and textiles SEZ at Hassan and IT and Coastal SEZs at Mangalore.
Key industrial clusters
IT/ITES cluster in electronic city and Whitefield (Bangalore).
Biotech park/cluster in electronic city, Bangalore
Machine tool cluster at Peenyaindustrial estate
Textile cluster at Doddaballapur
Foundry cluster at Belgaum
Industrial valve cluster at Hubli–Dharwad
Auto component cluster at Shimoga
Coir clusters at Hassan
Handicrafts cluster at Channapatna
Coffee production and processing cluster in Madekeri.
SEZs in Karnataka
Notified 27
Formal approvals 52
In-principle approvals 9
Source: StatewiseSEZs in India, www.sezindia.nic.in. accessed 23 September 2009
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