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Importance of transport system in India:- In a country like India with a large population of agriculture and industry, the following is the importance of the transport system.

1. Production and Market Expansion:- It is involved in transporting the raw materials of industries to different parts of the country and the finished goods to the market and consumers. This encourages production and market expansion.
2. Equality in Price: With the help of the means of transport, all the goods of production easily reach the market, due to which equality in the price of the goods remains. Due to this people use the things of their choice at low cost, which improves their standard of living.
3. New employment opportunities: – Due to the development of the transport system, many new employment opportunities have been created in the country, due to which unemployment has come down. This sector generates the largest number of jobs in the country. Today crores of people are directly and indirectly connected with this system.
4. Saving in time and freight – The transport system has led to the expansion of the labor sector on one hand and on the other hand, people have been facilitated to reach their places of work. This has saved time and cost.
5. Facility at the time of crisis:- There has been a facility to provide help at the time of emergency and natural calamity and crisis as soon as possible and to protect the borders of the country.

Thus, the Indian transport system is the lifeline for the progress of our economic, social and cultural national life.  It is an important contribution to connecting the people of the country, generating knowledge and increasing brotherhood, and making it the sixth economic power in the world.