Ans: A

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Statement 1 is incorrect: Packet Stations are also known as ferry ports. These packet stations are exclusively concerned with the transportation of passengers and mail across water bodies covering short distances. These stations occur in pairs located in such a way that they face each other across the water body, e.g. Dover in England and Calais in France across the English Channel.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Ports of Call are the ports which originally developed as calling points on main sea routes where ships used to anchor for refuelling, watering and taking food items. Later on, they developed into commercial ports. Aden, Honolulu and Singapore are good examples.

Statement 3 is correct: Entrepot Ports are collection centres where the goods are brought from different countries for export. Singapore is an entrepot for Asia. Rotterdam for Europe, and Copenhagen for the Baltic region.

Ans: D

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Statement 1 is correct: The Trans- Continental Stuart Highway connects Darwin (north coast) and Melbourne via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs in Australia.

Statement 2 is correct: Trans–Siberian Railway is a major rail route of Russia that runs from St. Petersburg in the west to Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast in the east passing through Moscow, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita and Khabarovsk. It is the most important route in Asia and the longest (9,332 km) double-tracked and electrified trans–continental railway in the world.

Statement 3 is correct: The Northern Atlantic Sea Route links North-eastern U.S.A. and Northwestern Europe, the two industrially developed regions of the world. One fourth of the world’s foreign trade moves on this route. It is, therefore, the busiest in the world and is otherwise, called the Big Trunk Route.

Ans: B

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Radio broadcasting started in India in 1923 by the Radio Club of Bombay. The government brought this popular mode of communication under its control in 1930 under the Indian Broadcasting System. It was changed to All India Radio in 1936 and to Akashwani in 1957.

Air transport was nationalised in 1953 by the Air Corporations Act, enabling the merger of all airlines into two corporations owned and operated by the government. The two Corporations were:  Air India International and Indian Airlines. 

The Border Road Organisation (BRO) was established in May 1960 for accelerating economic development and strengthening defence preparedness through rapid and coordinated improvement of strategically important roads along the northern and north-eastern boundary of the country.

The INSAT was established in 1983, and is a multipurpose satellite system for telecommunication, meteorological observation and various other data and programmes.

Ans: C

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Pair 1 is incorrect and pairs 2 and 3 are correct: Oil Ports deal in the processing and shipping of oil. Some of these are tanker ports and some are refinery ports. Maracaibo in Venezuela, Esskhira in Tunisia, and Tripoli in Lebanon are tanker ports. Abadan on the Gulf of Persia (in Iran) is a refinery port.

Pair 4 is correct: Calais is a ferry port (packet station) in France. These packet stations are exclusively concerned with the transportation of passengers and mail across water bodies covering short distances.

Ans: D

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Statement 1 is incorrect: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was operationalised in 1995. It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Road Transport. It is entrusted with the responsibility of development, maintenance and operation of National Highways. This is also the apex body to improve the quality of the roads designated as National Highways.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Road transport in a modern sense was very limited in India before World War-II. The first serious attempt was made in 1943 when the ‘Nagpur Plan’ was drawn. This plan could not be implemented due to lack of coordination among the princely states and British India.

Statement 3 is incorrect: State Highways are constructed and maintained by state governments. These constitute 4 per cent of the total road length in the country. While District Roads are the connecting link between District Headquarters and the other important nodes in the district. They account for 14 per cent of the total road length of the country.