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Dysentery: Infection of the intestines resulting in Industrialisation: The development of industries in a
severe diarrhoea with the presence of blood and country or region on a wide scale
mucus in the faeces Infl ux: An arrival or entry of large numbers of people
E or things
Insensitive: Showing or feeling no concern for others’
Effi cient: A system or machine achieving maximum feelings
productivity with minimum wasted eff ort or expense
Integrate: Combine one thing with another to form
E-Governance: Expands to electronic governance and a whole
is the integration of Information and Communication
Internet of Things: The interconnection via the
Technology (ICT) in all the processes of government
Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday
with the aim of enhancing the government’s ability
objects, enabling them to send and receive data
to address the needs of the general public
Emission: The production and discharge of L
something, especially gas or radiation Law enforcement: The action or activity of compelling
Enterprise: A business or company observance of or compliance with the law

Entity: A thing with distinct and independent existence M
F Marketing: The action or business of promoting
and selling products or services, including market
Feasible: Possible to do easily or conveniently
research and advertising
Filled to the brim: As full as possible
Megacity: A very large city, typically one with a
Foreign exchange: The currencies of other countries
population of over ten million people
G Metropolitan: Relating to or denoting a metropolis or

large city
Green cover: Natural or planted vegetation covering
Mobility: The ability to move between diff erent levels
a certain area of terrain, functioning as protection
in society or employment
against soil erosion, protecting the fauna, and
Modernisation: The transformation from a traditional,
balancing the temperature
rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial
Green infrastructure: A network of infrastructure
society
providing the ingredients or alternatives for solving
Municipality: The governing body of a town or a
urban and climatic challenges by building in harmony
district
with nature
P
H
Plague: A contagious bacterial disease characterized
Heterogeneous: Diverse in character or content
by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of
Homogeneous: Of the same kind buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs
I Prime location: The most desirable, and normally
most expensive, property in a defi ned location
Identity: The fact of being who or what a person or
Prominence: The state of being important, famous, or
thing is
noticeable
Implement: Put a decision, plan or agreement into
Proximity: Nearness in space, time, or relationship
eff ect
Public utilities: Services like electricity, gas, water, or
Industrial growth rate: The rate at which an industry
sewerage provided to a community
grows within a specifi ed period, mostly a year
Industrial Revolution: The process of change from an R

agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated Relocation: The action of moving to a new place and
by industry and machine manufacturing establishing one’s home or business there

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