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India has a well-developed rail, road, air transport
and coastal shipping network which is constantly being upgraded and
improved to meet the increasing demands of this fast growing country.
K.V.Kuppam is on the Vellore to Guddiyatum road. All along this road
are villages large and small. In the thirty or so miles between the
two towns K.V.Kuppam is probably one of the largest villages. The road
through the village has been substantially improved in recent years
and has become busier due to the development and re-routeing of the
National Highway from Chennai to Bangalore, a purpose built road which
mostly runs south of the Palar River. This major road is being updated
and in some places widened to four lanes as part of the Golden Quadrilateral
road system (connecting the four major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata
and Chennai) and the new N.S.E.W. corridor, a network of roads that
will connect the East and West of India, the North and South and the
diagonals.
The mainline railway which runs through K.V.Kuppam links provincial
towns and rural communities to the state capital, Chennai, which has
an international airport and important dock facilities. There are a
few village stations but only the extremely slow passenger trains stop
at them. The nearest useful station is at Katpadi Junction, half an
hour’s bus ride away. You can find Katpadi Junction using Google
Earth and Google Maps.
Public STD telephones are available in all the villages in K.VKuppam
Block but internet facilities are rare. There is only one privately
owned computer offering intermittent internet connection in P.K.Puram
and it is used mainly by Western Visitors to the Rural Unit for Health
and Social Affairs.
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