Prepare a pie chart for the occupational structure in India at the time of independence. Indian people gained owing to the introduction of the railways, were thus outweighed by the country’s huge economic loss. Along with the development of roads and railways, the colonial dispensation also took measures for developing the inland trade and sea lanes. However, these measures were far from satisfactory. The inland waterways, at times, also proved uneconomical as in the case of the Coast Canal on the Orissa coast. Though the canal was built at a huge cost to the government exchequer, yet, it failed to compete with the railways, which soon traversed the region running parallel to the canal, and had to be ultimately abandoned. The introduction of the expensive system of electric telegraph in India, similarly, served the purpose of maintaining law and order. The postal services, on the other hand, despite serving a useful public purpose, remained all through Fig. . Tata Airlines, a division of Tata and Sons, was established in inaugurating the aviation sector in India Fig. . First Railway Bridge linking Bombay with Thane, Work This Out
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