Technology has significantly helped humans overcome natural obstacles by:
1. Improving Accessibility: Technologies like bridges, tunnels, and railways have made previously inaccessible terrains reachable.
2. Agricultural Advancements: Irrigation, fertilizers, and machinery have enabled farming in arid and difficult regions.
3. Weather Predictions: Satellites and forecasting systems help mitigate disasters like cyclones and floods.
Read the following characteristics of retail trading carefully and choose the correct option:
I. This is concerned with the sale of goods directly to the consumers.
II. Most of the retail trading takes place in fixed establishments or stores.
III. It is formed by many middlemen, traders, and suppliers.
IV. Hawkers, street peddling, automatic vending machines, etc., are its examples.
Read the programmes related to the proposed Bharatmala umbrella scheme carefully and choose the correct option:
I. Backward areas, religious and tourist places connectivity programme
2. To interconnect the four metropolitan cities of the country
3. To develop State roads in adjoining coastal areas
4. To connect non-major ports in coastal states