Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Question Answers - Contemporary India - II

Q1: Why do we need transportation?
Ans: Goods and services do not move from their supply locations to demand locations on their own. The movement of these goods and services necessitates the need for transport.

Q2: Why is an efficient means of transport considered as a pre-requisite for fast development?
Ans: The pace of development of a country depends upon the production of goods and services as well as their movement over space. Therefore, an efficient means of transport is a pre-requisite for fast development.

Q3: How are transport, communication and trade complimentary to each other?
Ans: For a long time, trade and transport were restricted to a limited space. 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.

Q4: What has contributed to the socio-economic progress of India?
Ans: 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, newspaper, radio, television, cinema, internet, etc., have been contributing to its socio-economic progress in many ways.

Q5: Classify roads on the basis of their capacity.
Ans: (i) North-South Corridors
(ii) East-west Corridors
(iii) Golden Quadrilateral
(iv) National Highways
(v) State Highways
(vi) District Roads
(vii) Rural Roads
(viii) Border Roads

Q6: What is the extent of North-South Corridor of India?
Ans: North-South Corridor links Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) to Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu).

Q7: Name the southern terminal station of the ‘North-South Corridor.’ [CBSE Delhi 2017]
Ans: Kanyakumari

Q8: Name the river which is related to ‘National Waterways’ No. 1. [CBSE Delhi 2017]
Ans: Ganga

Q9: How is East-West Corridor connected?
Ans: East-West Corridor is connecting Silchar (Assam) in the East to Porbandar (Gujarat) in the west.

Q10: What do you know about Golden Quadrilateral?
Ans: The government has launched a major road development project linking Delhi-Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi by six lane super highway. It is looked after by National Highway Authority of India.

Q11: Who looks after the National Highways of India?
Ans: National highways link extreme parts of the country. These are the primary road systems and are laid and maintained by Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

Q12: What do you know about National Highway 1?
Ans: The historical Sher Shah Suri Marg is called National Highway 1. It is located between Delhi and Amritsar.

Q13: Which places are linked by National Highway 2 and 3?
Ans: National Highway 2 links Delhi to Kolkata and National Highway 3 links Gwalior to Jhansi.

Q14: What do you know about National Highway 7?

Ans: National Highway 7 is the longest and traverses 2369 kms between Varanasi and Kanyakumari via Jabalpur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Madurai.

Q15: How is Mumbai and Delhi connected by road?
Ans: Delhi and Mumbai is well connected by National Highway 8.

Q16: What do you know about National Highway 15?
Ans: National Highway 15 covers most of the Rajasthan.

Q17: Who looks after State Highways of India?
Ans: State Highways are constructed and maintained by the State Public Works Department (PWD) in states and union territories.

Q18: Name the river related to National Waterways No. 2. [CBSE (AI) 2017]
Ans: The river related to National Waterway No.2 is River ‘Brahmaputra’.

Q19: What do you know about District Roads?
Ans: District Roads connect the district headquarters with other places of the district. These roads are maintained by Zila Parishad.

Q20: What is ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana’?
Ans: Rural roads connecting villages to the towns received special impetus under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Under this scheme, special provisions are made so that every village in the country is linked to a major town in the country by all season motorable road.