Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

India-People and Economy: Transport and Communcation

Question:

Assertion: After Independence, thirty-year road plan was introduced in India in 1961.
Reasoning: It was introduced to improve the conditions of roads in India.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct, and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct, but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is correct, but Reasoning (R) is incorrect.

Assertion (A) is incorrect, but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Correct Answer:

Assertion (A) is incorrect, but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Explanation:

After Independence, twenty-year road plan (1961) was introduced to improve the conditions of roads in India. However, roads continue to concentrate in and around urban centres. Rural and remote areas had the least connectivity by road