Transport
Railway and Bus services are the major modes of transport for the people in Vizianagaram district. Visakhapatnam is the nearest airport.
Railway network in the entire district comes under Waltair Division of the East Coast Railway, Indian Railways. Vizianagaram and Kothavalasa are the main railway junctions. There are 28 railway stations in the district. The route length is 169.656 kilometers in Broad Gauge Double Line and 68.860 kilometers in Broad Gauge Single line.
Total Road length in the district as on 2005 is 6,018 kilometers covering 561 villages. National Highways 5 and 43 passes through the district and covers a distance of 200 kilometers. National Highway 43 (India) runs almost entirely in Vizianagaram district for a distance of 83 kilometers and passes through Orissa to Raipur in Chattisgarh (total length of 551 kilometers). It passes through Vizianagaram, Gajapathinagaram, Ramabhadrapuram and Salur towns. National Highway 5 passes through coastal mandals of Bhogapuram and Pusapatirega. State Highways covers a distance of 122 kilometers, major district roads 852 kilometers and rural roads 781 kilometers. The Panchayat Raj roads covers a distance of 4,080 kilometers.
Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) is the major public transport system operated by fleet of buses. Vizianagaram is one of the 4 zones and one of the 23 administrative regions headed by General Manager of APSRTC. There are 4 bus depots at Vizianagaram, Parvathipuram, Srungavarapukota and Salur. There are many bus stations in the entire district. APSRTC operated 441 buses with an average of 371 buses covering a distance of 420 kilometers of route. They have carried about 46 lakhs of passengers per month in 2005.
Auto Rickshaw, Cycle rickshaw and Cycles are the major modes of local transport in the small towns and villages.
There are 3 Head Post Offices in Vizianagaram, Parvathipuram and Bobbili. There are 628 Branch and Sub Post Offices in Vizianagaram district covering all the mandals. There are 62 Telegraph Offices in the district.
There are 78 Telephone Exchanges in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. The total customer base is 51,315 phone connections covering all the mandals. There are 6,223 public call offices. Idea Cellular, Airtel and Tata Indicom are the major private cellular services operates in Vizianagaram district as part of their services in Andhra Pradesh.
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