Himalayan Times (1953)

November 1, 1953

IHtmaiaimu (Limes

Three

Telegraph Cenelenary Feature

HIGHLIGHTS OF TELEGRAPH IN INDIA

SITUATION VACANT

1. The Indian Telegraph
Department has over
4,00,000 miles ofiron cop-
ppratid bronze wire, rough-
ly 20 times the equatorial
circumference of the earth;
and about 2,45 000 miles
of channel crossing, almost
10 times the equatorial
circumference.

2. The Indian Telegraph
Department is cne of the
largest in the world in
open wire carrier equip-
ment.

3. The Indian Telegraph
is the oldest government-
owned public utility ser-
vice in the world

4. The Indian Posts and
Telegraph is the second
natioi alized public utility
in India, employing a staff,
of about 2,21,000 includ-
ing 1,000 gazetted officers.

5. The Indian Telegraph
has the third longest-tele-
graph channel mileage .in
the world.

6. The Indian Telegraph
has the sixth largest in-
land traffic in the world,
viz, 2J million next only to
United States. Japan, Uni-
ted KingdonT* Australia,
and Italy. But in the
the number of operation^
it is second only to the
Unted States.

7. The Indian Telegraph
maintains the highest tele-
graph office in the world,
at Bhutong, 13,500 feet
above sea level, built as.
early as 1887 in connec-
tion with the 'Sikkim Ex-
pedition’.

8 The Indian Telegraph
maintains the highest
line in the world, at Kham-
bazong, in Sikkjtn, 17,500
feet above sea level.

9. Tho Indian Telegraph
has the longest over-river
span in the world, 4 500
feet, just. South of Vijaya-
wada, the hillock on either
side of the Kistan River
forming convenient pali-
side poles- For crossing
the Back-Waters atCVchin,
14 wooden posts were
planted in the mud under
the water, 85 to-110 feet
deep.,

10. The Indian Telegraph
‘'was. ahead of Great Bri-
tain by five years when
it started the Telegraph
Money Order in 1884.

11. ThelndianTelegraph’s
(riginal radio cir
ctiit between Diamond
Harbour and Port Blair
in the Andamans was the
first service in the word
to be opend for paid
public traffic. That was
in October, 1904 [P.I.B ]

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