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the invention which has revolutionised the way
amenities in the urban areas as the population
rises sharply. man lived before this. Ever since this invention,
most of our inventions have been based on the
Therefore, the government should pay attention to simple invention of wheel. We cannot imagine
the problems of a rural area. It should create the
large machines and factories, buildings and forts,
services of education and treatment, as well as roads and airports, dams and power stations
opportunities for employment. It should without the simple invention of the wheel, so
encourage industrialists to open their industries in
important it is to us.
rural areas so that the rural people don’t have to
migrate to towns in search of jobs. Now, man has made different kinds of transports
which carry him to far-off places in no time. The
Just Think! time involved in journeys has reduced drastically,
virtually shrinking the world into a global village.
How can the problem of migration be solved? For the convenience of study, we can classify
means of transport into three types—means of
SCATTERED AND COMPACT SETTLEMENTS surface transport, means of water transport and
means of air transport.
Depending upon the physical features and
importance of a place in terms of agriculture,
industry or trade, a settlement can be scattered or F ind Outind Out
compact. The houses are built here and there in a
scattered settlement, while the houses are built What is the most widely used mode of transport in
close together in a compact settlement. We can India?
find scattered settlements in deserts and hilly Surface Transport
areas, while plains have compact settlements.
The means of surface transport run on the earth’s
surface, hence the name. Animals have been an
important means of surface transport since olden
times. They are used even today. Horses, mules,
donkeys, bullocks, buffaloes, camels etc. are used
on a large scale. Animals are useful in areas where
it is difficult to construct roads or railways; such as
camels and horses in desert, yaks in Tibet, and
A compact settlement A scattered settlement llamas in Andes mountains.
TRANSPORTATION
Earlier, man used to carry loads on his shoulder or
dragged them along the ground while walking
distances. Then
he used animals
A camel A yak A llama
to transport
things from one Surface transport can be broadly classified into
place to another. roadways and railways.
This was a sort of Roadways
evolution which
Early man and his cart
took a long time. Roads are very vital for the development and
progress of a country. So, much importance is
Man took the first step towards modernisation and attached to them. Roads are useful for both long
progress when he invented the wheel. This was
and short distances. A road can be built right up to
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