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Even though all means of transport are well developed in India, yet, road transport remains the most popular means of transport. Justify this statement.
Topic: Road transport
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(1) Roads alone reach everywhere — the hills, the villages, the doorstep — and feed every other means of transport. (2) They are cheap and easy to build and maintain, and goods move by road with the least pilferage and delay.
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