AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Decentralisation is especially necessary in India because: (i) India is a vast country with states as large as European nations, making two-tier governance insufficient; (ii) states are internally very diverse, so local problems are best understood and resolved at the local level with people's direct participation.
Even though this is a 1-mark question, it asks for two reasons — so give both briefly in one-two lines. Examiners expect: (1) the size/vastness argument and (2) the diversity/local knowledge argument. Both are directly from the passage on decentralisation. Avoid writing lengthy explanations; keep it crisp.