A Comparison On The Basis Of
Infrastructure:
India & China Introduction Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.
It is an important term for judging a country or region's development. What does 'infrastructure' mean? The term infrastructure typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, , and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions." Types Of
Infrastructure Hard Infrastructure "Hard" infrastructure refers to the large physical networks necessary for the functioning of a modern industrial nation. It is limited to capital assets that serve the function of conveyance or channelling of people, vehicles, fluids, energy, or information, and which take the form either of a network or of a critical node used by vehicles, or used for the transmission of electro-magnetic waves. Examples Of Hard Infrastructure •Transportation infrastructure
•Energy infrastructure
•Water management infrastructure
•Communications infrastructure
•Solid waste management Soft Infrastructure Soft infrastructure includes both physical assets, non-physical assets as well as the systems and organizations by which highly skilled and specialized professionals are trained.The essence of soft infrastructure is the delivery of specialized services to people. Examples Of Soft Infrastructure Governance Infrastructure
Economic Infrastructure
Social Infrastructure
Cultural, Sports & Recreation Infrastructure COMPARISON HARD INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNICATION Telephones : 32.685 mn (10th worldwide)
Mobile Cellular: 893.862 mn (2nd worldwide)
Internet Users: 61.338 mn (6th worldwide)
No of total post offices : 1,54,866 , of