(i) House is one of the basic needs of every family. Provision of better housing facilities increases the productivity of labour.
(ii) The housing problem is getting aggravated due to rapid adoptation of nuclear families
(iii) Housing does not mean provision of house alone but also proper water supply, good sanitation, proper disposal of sewage, etc.
(iv) The problem of housing can be tackled by the development of low cost technology in house construction, provision of adequate housing finance and provision of land sites to landless workers in rural areas.
(v) As per the NSSO data; 38 per cent of the households lived in with one room while another 36 per cent lived with two rooms

Rural Market refers to the infrastructure created to buy and sell the products produced in rural areas and also to purchase the needed products and farm inputs produced in urban and other regions. The rural marketing is still defective as farmers lack bargaining power, long chain of middlemen, lack of organisation, insufficient storage facilities, poor transport facilities, absence of grading, inadequate information and poor marketing arrangements.

These industries are based on the processing of agricultural produce. Agro-based industries may be organised on a cottage-scale, smallscale and large-scale. These industries tend to develop household settlements around them as they employ more labour on a regular basis. Examples are textile, sugar, paper, vegetable oil, tea and coffee industries.

(i) India's road network is one of the world's largest.
(ii) The road length of India increased from about 4 lakh kms in 1950-51 to 34 lakh kms at present.
(iii) Rural roads in India constitute 2650 lakh kms of which 13.5 percent of the roads are surfaced.

(i) It is a public sector financial institutions.
(ii) It provides loans at low rates to micro finance institutions.
(iii) And also provides credit to non-banking financial institution, micro, small and medium enterprises.
(iv) It was launched on 8th April 2015.
(v) Mostly individual proprietorships running small manufacturing trading or services activities.
(vi) Most of these are owned by people belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe (or) other backward classes.
(vii) MUDRA was started specifically for financing these units.