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Q.1. What do you meant by soft social infrastructure?

Q.2. Explain why its infrastructure support quality of life.

Answer 1

Answer 1: Soft social infrastructure refers to a part of infrastructure which is different from hard infrastructure like bridges, dams, roads, canals, buildings etc. Soft infrastructure is a service form of infrastructure which helps in building and maintaining the economy of a nation. It includes education, services of hospitals, transportation facilities, networking and communication facilities, law of land etc.

Answer 2: Importance of soft social infrastructure cannot be underestimated as it helps in building the nation and grow it’s economy. Due to these services the productivity and efficiency of nation increases which provides ease and better living standards. If we look at every developed country then we can observe that it has a lot of soft infrastructure which supports the hard infrastructure and thus helps improve the productivity and speed of doing work. Following are some sectors in which soft infrastructure helps to build quality life-

• Law- Earlier people had to register their property and business etc though physical forms and file complaints offline hut now due to technology people can do all such work online and this helps to enhance the law enforcement system of the nation.
• Political sector- Voting was done through paper ballot and policies were printed and then distributed but now from voting to making changes in system can be done online through internet and using latest technology.
• Business- Due to research and technology the business have developed a lot as nowadays people can work from home using intranet and servers of business and can work from remote location. Also, conferences can take place from any where using latest video conferences systems.

Thus, it is quite evident that technology in the form of soft infrastructure has improved life.