How do infrastructure facilities boost production?
The prosperity of a country depends directly upon the development of agricultural and industrial production. Agricultural production requires power, credit, transport facilities, etc.; the deficiency of which leads to fall in productivity. Industrial production requires machinery and equipment, energy, banking and insurance facilities, marketing facilities, transport services which include railways, roads and shipping and communication facilities etc. All these facilities help in raising agricultural and industrial productivity.
Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years to control diseases.
What is the significance of ‘energy’? Differentiate between commercial and non-commercial sources of energy.
Justify that energy crisis can be overcome with the use of renewable sources of energy.
Discuss the reforms which have been initiated recently to meet the energy crisis in India.
Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.
Explain the two categories into which infrastructure is divided. How are both interdependent?