Indian road network years despite significant barriers and inefficiencies in inter-state freight and passenger movement compared to railways and air. The government of India considers road network as critical to the country's development, social integration and security needs of the country. India's road network carries over 65 percent of its freight and about 85 percent of passenger traffic. Indian road network is administered by various government authorities, given India's federal form of government. The following table shows the total length of India's road network by type of road as on 31 March 2016. In general, roads in India are primarily bitumen-based macadamised roads.
SM U-39 no damage, but during the action two crewmen (sailor Schulz and stoker Hausottl) fell overboard and were lost. In the evening "U-39" reached Cartagena and was interned for the remainder of the war. It was surrendered to France on 22 March 1919 and was broken up at Toulon in 1923. SM U-39 SM "U-39" was a German Type U 31 U-boat which operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I. It ended up being the second most successful U-boat participating in the war, sinking 157 ships for a total of 404,478 tons. Its longest-serving captain was "Kptlt." Walther Forstmann,