Outline the importance/ advantages of the following:

(A) Technology and mechanisation

(B) Trade

(C) Industrialisation

(D) Amenities in urban areas

(E) Social harmony in the cities

A) • Increase in productivity leads to growth of economy and income

• Technology and innovation create demand for new skill sets and thereby creating employment opportunities.

B) • Increase in prosperity

• Development of logistics sector

• Creation of employment opportunities

C) • Increase in trade and income

• Improvement in living standards

D) • Improvement in living standards

• Creation of indirect employment for these service providers

E) • Peace and security

• Emergence of composite culture with exchange of new ideas, cultural practices and beliefs.