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It is said that culture follows communications. As a corollary it would not be wrong to add that any kind of development or ameliorating activities, be it agrarian or industrial, depends to a very large extent on the availability of a network of good roads and railway routes. In fact they serve as nerves in connecting the production centres with the marketing centres. In the absence of a good network of roads and railways, the agro-industrial deve-lopment naturally suffers from a handicap. In this regard Bul-dhana district is fairly served by roads. It is well connected by roads with the adjoining districts of Jalgaon, Aurangabad, Par-bhani, Akola, Yeotmal, etc. The district headquarters is also connected by roads to all the tahsil headquarters and trading cen-tres. In the district, transport by road is more important than that by railways. The total railway mileage in the district is only 52.64 miles. The railway traverses from west to east in the northern portion of the district. This broad gauge line connects only four important trading centers, viz., Malkapur, Nandura, Khamgaon and Shegaon. The total road mileage of the district as on 31st March 1966 was 1,246.12 km of which 59.39 per cent was water bound macadam. 29.53 per cent back-topped, 9.41 per cent was of lower types and 2.01 per cent was of granular material. Khamgaon and Buldhana are the two State transport depots from where 69 routes are in operation covering 3,476.7 km. The Surat-Jalgaon-Malkapur-Khamgaon-Nagpur national highway passes through the district for 66.54 miles. Besides, there are seven state highways in the district. Further expansion of the roads is expected during years to come.

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