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Directions (Q. Nos. 111-115) : The popular view of towns and cities in developing countries of the urbanisat process is that the emergence of cities connotes environmental degradation, generation slums and squatters, urban, poverty, unemployment, crimes, lawlessness, traffic, chaos etc. But what is the reality? Given the unprecedented increase in urban population over the last 50 years from 30 million in 1950 to 2 billion in 2000 in developing countries, the wonder really is how well the world has copped quality of life has improved in terms of availability of water and sanitation, power, health and education, communication and transport. By way of illustration, a large number of urban residents have been provided with improved water in urban areas in Asia's largest countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Philippines. Despite that, the access to improved water in terms of percentage of total urban population seems to have declined during the last decade of 20th century, though in absolute numbers, millions of additional urbanites have been provided improved services. These countries have made significant progress in provision of Sanitation services too, together, providing for an additional population of more than 293 million citizens within a decade (1990-2000). These improvements must be viewed against the backdrop of rapidly increasing urban population, fiscal crunch and strained human resources and efficient and quality-oriented public management. The average annual increase in the number of urbanites in developing countries, from AD 1950 to 2000 was close to :

निम्नलिखित प्रश्न में, चार विकल्पों में से, उस विकल्प का चयन करें जो शुद्ध वाक्य का सबसे अच्छा विकल्प है।

2025 में एटीपी फाइनल्स (ATP Finals) का खिताब किसने जीता?

In 1680, ________ son of Shivaji ascended the throne after his success in the war of succession against his brother Rajaram.

Simplify: sin θ/(1 - cos θ)

Select the most appropriate indirect speech of the given sentence: The teacher said to Rashmi, "Why don't you pay attention in the class?"

An electron in the conduction band : कंडक्शन बैंड में इलेक्ट्रॉन –

भारत के राष्ट्रपति भवन का निर्माण किस वर्ष पूरा हुआ था?

According to the Economic Survey of Bihar 2021-22, what is the level of urbanization in the State at present? बिहार के आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण, 2021-2022 के अनुसार, वर्तमान में राज्य में शहरीकरण का स्तर क्या है?

Which of the following is an application of bakelite? निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा, बैकेलाइट का एक अनुप्रयोग है?