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TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
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TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Telephone System.
There is only one telephone exchange in the district at Ratnagiri. The connections and extensions, as on 30th June 1958, numbered 80
and 14 respectively. The exchange is of the Central Battery Multiple
type and has a capacity of working 110 lines.
There are Public Call Offices at the following places in the district. The respective dates of their commencment are given against each of them:—
1. |
Chiplun |
14th June 1954. |
2. |
Khed |
14th October 1955. |
3. |
Sawantwadi |
7th June 1956. |
4. |
Vengurla |
8th June 1956. |
5. |
Malvan |
9th June 1956. |
6. |
Ratnagiri (Local) |
N.A. |
A proposal to lay out telephone exchanges at Chiplun, Malvan, Sawantwadi, and Vengurla was approved in December 1958. Similarly, the Public Call Offices at Sangameshwar, Rajapur, Lanje, Kudal and Sakharpa were also sanctioned.
The following is the description of the trunk line alignments passing through the district:—
1. Trunk alignment carrying one trunk from Kolhapur to Ratnagiri via Malkapur and Sakharpa.
2. Trunk line carrying one trunk from Chiplun to Panvel via Khed and Poladpur.
3. Trunk line carrying one trunk from Belgaum to Malvan via Sawantwadi and Vengurla.
4. Trunk line carrying one trunk from Vengurla to Shiroda.
Trunk line carrying one trunk from Vengurla to Kudal. |
