Infrastructure — India
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for India: 346
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Transportation
- Airports - total
346
- Airports with Paved Runways
253
- Heliports
45
- Railways
39,752 Miles 63,974 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
2,914,132 Miles 4,689,842 Kilometers
- Waterways
9,010 Miles 14,500 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Chennai, Jawaharal Nehru Port, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Sikka, Vishakhapatnam
Communications
- Telephones
32,685,000
- Cell Phones
893,862,000
- Internet Users
61,338,000
- Internet Country Code
.in
- Internet Hosts
6,746,000
- Broadcast Media
- Doordarshan, India's public TV network, operates about 20 national, regional, and local services
- a large and increasing number of privately owned TV stations are distributed by cable and satellite service providers
- by 2011, more than 100 million homes had access to cable and satellite TV offering more than 700 TV channels
- government controls AM radio with All India Radio operating domestic and external networks
- news broadcasts via radio are limited to the All India Radio Network
- since 2000, privately-owned FM stations have been permitted and their numbers have increased rapidly
- Telephone System
- General Assessment: supported by recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world; the total telephone subscribership base exceeded 900 million in 2011, an overall teledensity of roughly 75%, and subscribership is currently growing more than 20 million per month; urban teledensity now exceeds 100%
- and rural teledensity is steadily growing Domestic: mobile cellular service was introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with multiple private service providers and one or more state-owned service providers; in recent years significant trunk capacity was added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite System (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000
- very small aperture terminals (VSAT) International: country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including Sea-Me-We-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), Sea-Me-We-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
637,600,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
519,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
10,530,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
880,000,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
64,490,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
16,390,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
40,380,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
1,241,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,292,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,272,000
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
897,300
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
5,476,000,000