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COMMUNICATIONS
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RURAL TRANSPORT
Transport facilities in the rural areas in the past were meagre
due to the lack of good roads. Except a few motorable roads and
highways, most of the roads were earthen tracks. which were some
times unusable even for cart traffic in the rainy season. The
bullock-cart was then by far the only means of goods as well as
of passenger traffic.
However, during the last 25 years, considerable progress has been achieved in this regard and several schemes of road development and repairs are' now in progress. A number of roads have been constructed and repaired. The Poona-Bangalore railway route, and a number of highways and district roads touch a number of villages in the district.
The bullock-cart remains the most important means of conveyance to the rural populace, It is used for local transport of goods as well as for marketing purpose. However, motor trucks and railways have supplemented it for commercial traffic to distant places. Transport of sugarcane, gul, groundnut, cotton, food. grains and other items of wholesale trade are mainly transported by trucks.
During the last 15 years considerable improvement has taken place in the field of passenger transport. The State Transport plies buses on almost all the motorable roads in the district. Towns and villages on most of the highways and other motorable roads are served by bus transport. Moreover, approach roads from railway stations have lately been developed.
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