Long Answer Type”Services are very important aspect for economic development of a country”. Analyse the statement by explaining five components of a service sector.
The components:
(i) Low-order services, such as grocery shops and laundries, are more common and widespread than high-order services or more specialised ones like those of accountants, consultants and physicians.
(ii) Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. The gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour.
(iii) Teacher, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour
(iv) Making and maintaining highways and bridges, maintaining firefighting departments and supplying or supervising education and customer care are among the important services most often supervised or performed by governments or companies.
(v) Personal services are made available to the people to facilitate their work in daily life. The workers migrate from rural areas in search of employment and are unskilled. They are employed in domestic services as housekeepers, cooks, and gardeners.
What are rural settlements? What are the two types of the rural settlements in the world? How are they different from each other? Give three points of distinction.
Define the term ‘Road Density’. Explain with examples the two main determinants of road density in India.
(26.1) In the given political Outline Map of the World, the following four features are shown:
(A) The major sea of commercial livestock rearing’
(B) The major sea port
(C) The major Air Port
(D) The Mega City
Identify these features and write correct names on the lines marked near each features.
(26.2) In the given political Outline Map of India, Locate and label the following with appropriate symbols:
(i) The state having lowest density of population.
(ii) The oil refinery located in West Bengal.
(iii) The major sea port located In Goa.
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