Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) is primarily engaged in the transportation, processing, and marketing of natural gas. It plays a crucial role in the natural gas infrastructure in India, ensuring that the gas is available to industries, power plants, and other sectors in a timely manner. GAIL also focuses on the development of pipelines and other infrastructure for the distribution of natural gas across the country.
- Option (A) is incorrect as GAIL's role involves more than just storing gas.
- Option (B) is also incomplete as it only addresses the allocation aspect.
- Option (C) is correct because it encapsulates GAIL's full role in the natural gas industry, including transportation, processing, and marketing.
- Option (D) is incorrect as it focuses only on selling stored gas, which is not the primary objective of GAIL.
Thus, the correct answer is (C) To transport, process and market natural gas.
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Hunting and Food Gathering
The earliest human beings depended on their immediate environment for their sustenance. They subsisted on: (a) animals which they hunted; and (b) the edible plants which they gathered from forests in the vicinity. Primitive societies depended on wild animals. People located in very cold and extremely hot climates survived on hunting. The people in the coastal areas still catch fish though fishing has experienced modernisation due to technological development. Many species, now have become extinct or endangered due to illegal hunting (poaching). The early hunters used primitive tools made of stones, twigs or arrows so the number of animals killed was limited. Gathering and hunting are the oldest economic activity known. These are carried out at different levels with different orientations. Gathering is practised in regions with harsh climatic conditions. It often involves primitive societies, who extract both plants and animals to satisfy their needs for food, shelter and clothing. This type of activity requires a small amount of capital investment and operates at very low levels of technology. The yield per person is very low and little or no surplus is produced.
