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COMMUNICATIONS
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RURAL TRANSPORT
the facilities of transport in the rural areas were inadequate in the past. The
village roads were mostly earthen tracks, winch were sometimes unusable in the
rainy season even for cart traffic. However, during the last two decades considerable progress has been achieved and several schemes of road development are now under way. The construction of link roads is actively engaging the attention of the Government Under the road development programme of the live year plans, a number of approach roads have been constructed and a greater number 0f them are proposed.
Bullock-cart was formerly the only means of transport for passenger traffic as well as carriage of goods to and from the markets. The bullock-cart also known as chhakda. still continues to be the only conveyance for the cultivator's produce to the markets, even though
for purposes of trade, motor trucks and railways have supplanted all slow-moving traffic by bullock carts and horses.
A sizeable section of the middle class population uses bicycles. Motor-cycles and scooters have also been in use in rural as well as in urban areas.
On most of the motorable roads private transport companies as well as the State Transport Authorities ply buses.
[The Directory of Villages and Towns given at the end of the Volume also gives
the nearest bus stand and the nearest railway station to each village and town
in the district. ] Towns and villages on most of the highways and major roads are, thus, served by buses. Moreover, approach roads from railway stations have lately been developed, with the result that the problem of rural transport has been eased to a great extent.
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