Which one of the following objectives of Regional Planning is most iimportant ?

• Cultivating habitability and community building

• Conservation of forests

• Rationalism of population distribution

• Perfect regional mobility system

The regions developed along transportation lines or irrigation channels are called as

• Transport regions

• Axial regions

• River-valley regions

• Transitional regions

Which one of the following statements is not correct ?

• Regions are mental concepts formulated to arrange earth features in some abstract order.

• Regions could either be finite or infinite/boundless 3-dimensional extending much beyond the limits of terrestrial sphere.

• The regional concept is a device to comprehend likenesses and differences on the earth surface.

• A region has some kind of internal homogeneity which distinguishes it from the neighbouring areas.

'Regions are good servants but bad masters' was stated by

• C.C. Carter

• A.J. Herbertson

• O.H.K. Spate

• Vidal de la Blache

ASSERTION (A) : Regional disparities tend to reduce over time in a competitive free market economy.

REASON (R) : The factors of production move from one rgeion to another to maximize their rate of returns.

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is true , but (R) is false.

• (A) is false , but (R) is true.

• a-iii , b-iv , c-ii , d-i

• a-ii , b-iv , c-i , d-iii

• a-ii , b-ii , c-iii , d-i

• a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

ASSERTION (A) : Regions , in fact , do change over time , they change in response to changing relationships of the spatial elements.

REASON (R) : Planned intervention certainly proves to be of rapid momentum within the frame of socio-economic activities.

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is correct , but (R) is wrong.

• (A) is wrong , but (R) is right.

68.

In which Five Year Plan , balanced regional development was emphasized as one of the major objectives of the planning exercise and was one full chapter in the plan document ?

• Second plan

•  Third plan

• Fourth plan

•  Fifth plan

The city region is an example of 

• Formal region

• Functional region

• Compage region

• Adhoc region

ASSERTION (A) : The task of preparing a reasonably sound district plan has not made much headway in the States.

REASON (R) : There is a lack of effective co-ordination at the district level between various agencies involved in planning exercises.

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is correct , but (R) is wrong.

• (A) is wrong , but (R) is correct.