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By Road: Maharashtra has the largest road network in India. 17 National Highways connect Maharashtra to six neighbouring states. Maharashtra has a large state highway network. 97.5 per cent of the villages in the state were connected by all-weather roads as of March 2010. The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has been providing passenger road transport service in the public sector since 1948, linking most of the towns and villages in and around the state with a large network of operation. These buses, popularly called ST (State Transport), are the preferred mode of transport for much of the populace.
By Train: The state is well-connected to other parts of the country with a railway network. The Central Railway and the Western Railway zones of the Indian Railways that are headquartered in Mumbai, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Churchgate respectively, The Nanded division of the South Central Railway that caters to the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and The Konkan Railway, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways based in CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai that serves the Konkan coastal region south of Mumbai and continues down the west coast of India.
By Air: Maharashtra has three international airports- Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Pune's civil enclave international airport. Nagpur's Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.
Other city airports such as, Aurangabad and Nanded, are served by scheduled domestic services. Additionally, there are smaller airports like those at Akola, Amravati, Baramati, Chandrapur, Gondia, Jalgaon, Karad, Kolhapur, Latur, Nashik, Osmanabad, Ratnagiri, Solapur and Yavatmal that do not have any scheduled air services.
By Sea: Maharashtra has three major ports at Mumbai (operated by the Mumbai Port Trust), the JNPT lying across the Mumbai harbour in Navi Mumbai, and in Ratnagiri, which handles the export of ores mined in the Maharastra hinterland. Additionally, there are 53 minor ports. Ferryboat services also operate at Mumbai, linking the city to neighbouring coastal towns.
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