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Ports
- An international sea- port at Cochin - one of 16 major ports in country.
- Three intermediate ports (Neendakara, Alappuzha, Kozhikode), 12 minor ports.
Roads
- Total road length of nearly 1,10,500 km.
- Ernakulam has maximum road length followed by Kottayam.
Railways
- Total railway route length for 1998-'99 -- nearly 1200 km.
- New Konkan railway facilitates access to trade circuits of Bombay and Pune.
Airports
- Two international airports (Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram) and 2 domestic airports (Cochin, Kozhikode ).
Power
Though the power development in the State has been based mainly on the exploitation of the abundant hydro-potential, the State is on its way to achieving self-sufficiency with its recent efforts to exploit thermal power to its full potential. A major policy initiative of the State government in recent years has been to involve private sector participation in augmenting power supply. Moreover, the State government is giving a new thrust to develop hydropower from such small and medium projects which will have very little adverse impact on the environment. Some of the new important thermal projects include the Brahmapuram Diesel Power Project, the Kozhikode Diesel Power Project at Nallalam, and the third unit of the combined cycle power project of NTPC at Kayamkulam, whose output is available exclusively to Kerala.
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Apart from the four thermal units, there are 17 hydel units and one wind power unit in the State. All these units put together puts the State capacity at around 2311 MW.While the majority of the hydel units have a capacity in the in the 10 to75 MW range, the biggest unit, located at Idukki, can produce 780 MW of power. This is followed by Sabarigiri with 300 MW and Lower Periyar with 180 MW. The Peppara and Madupetti units have the lowest output with only three and two MW respectively. The wind power unit at Kanjikode also has a low output of only two MW.
Telecommunication
- Highest telephone density in country.- 35 connections per sq. km (1998-'99)
- All 913 exchanges connected to STD/ISD net work 99.2 % - electronic
- Max. number of exchanges for Ernakulam and min for Wayanad
- Panchayats being linked by a net work of computers and provided internet facilities
- Five private Internet Service Providers in the State.
- 8300 km of optical fiber activated in international undersea cable landing points at Cochin.
- Around 5,056 post offices (as on 31-03-2001).
- One post office for average of 6480 persons in around 8 km.
- Postal Circle includes 51 Head Post Offices, more than 4000 sub-offices, 90 Other Postal Service Offices and 7 Speed Post Centres.
Financial Institutions
The various public and private sector financial institutions in the State perform the important task of providing adequate monetary back-up to the risk-taking entrepreneur. Of these, two of the most important institutions are the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, the nodal agency for promoting and financing large and medium scale industries, and the Kerala Financial Corporation for the small and medium scale units.
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