Question

Imporantance of road transpoart

Answer 1

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importance of rail transport are as follows :-

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•Suitable for our economy

India is a an agrarian economy wherein our farmers have to maintain contacts with the markets for selling their produce.Road transport helps in reaching the heart of the village.

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•Link with remote areas

It brings remote and far-off places,which have plenty of natural wealth,into contact with the rest of the country.

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•Movement of goods

It is through roads and road transport that raw materials reach the factories and tgeir manufactures reach the consumer spred all over the country.

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•Complementary to railways

Roads and road transport are necessery complement to railways. Railways connect towns and roads connets towns and villages.

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Answer 2

Roads have been existing in India for the last 5000 years. In early stages of Indian history, Ashoka and Chandragupta made efforts to construct roads. But the real progress was made during the Mughal period. A number of roads were laid during the Sultanate and Mughal periods. Most of the present trunk routes follow the Mughal routes. These routes were essential for strengthening and consolidating the empire.

One such road was constructed by Sher Shah Suri which connected Peshawar to Kolkata. It was named as Grand Trunk (G.T.) Road and joined Amritsar with Kolkata after partition of India in 1947. Presently, it is known as ‘Sher Shah Suri Marg’.

Importance of Roads:

1. Roads play a very important role in the transportation of goods and passengers for short and medium distances.
2. It is comparatively easy and cheap to construct and maintain roads.

3. Road transport system establishes easy contact between farms, fields, factories and markets and provides door to door service.

4. Roads can negotiate high gradients and sharp turns which railways cannot do. As such, roads can be constructed in hilly areas also.

5. Roads act as great feaders to railways. Without good and sufficient roads, railways cannot collect sufficient produce to make their operation possible.