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Underemployment continues to be rampant in rural areas. Suggest any three ways through which employment for rural people can be generated.

Underemployment continues to be rampant in rural areas. The ways through which employment for rural people can be generated are:

● Underemployed means that the number of people that are involved in a particular work is more as compared to the actual number of people required to do the same job.


● The people can be employed in various projects such as the construction of dams and roads in the village area.


● The people can also be employed in the service sectors such as banking and trade.


● The government can identify and promote small industries in rural areas to increase employment.


● The government can also invest and employ people in providing transportation and storage services.


● The government can open training centers to provide the required training and financial assistance to the people and help them to become self-employed.


● The government can provide credit facilities through proper channels of the formal sector.


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Today, the world has been converted into a large village with the help of efficient and fast-moving transport. Transport has been able to achieve this with the help of equally developed communication system. Therefore, transport, communication, and trade are complementary to each other.


Today, India is well-linked with the rest of the world despite its vast size, diversity and linguistic and socio-cultural plurality. Railways, airways, waterways, newspapers, radio, television, cinema, and the internet, etc. have been contributing to its socio-economic progress in many ways.


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30.2-Infer the importance of means of transportation and communication for socio-economic progress?


30.3- How does trade strengthen the economy of a country?