The things we need to make our lives easier and more comfortable are called facilities.
They are also called services.
A good neighborhood will have many services and facilities.
There are some services and facilities that everybody needs.
Market and shops
Every one needs to buy things.
We use different kinds of things.
We have to buy them from shops.
A good neighborhood should have a market.
Shops selling all kinds of goods should be there in the market.
Medical facilities people fall ill quite often.
Every neighborhood must have a doctor, a hospital, a chemist’s shop and an ambulance.
These are called medical facilities.
School and collages
There are children and young people in all neighborhoods.
The go to school and collages.
Every place should have a school in the neighborhood.
Some schools are big and some are small.
Schools in rural have less students, urban schools are bigger.
Schools in cities and towns have more children.
In school our teachers teach us all about world around us.
They teach us to think clearly.
They teach us how too speak and write these thoughts.
They teach us good manners.
We must respect our teachers.
The head of a school is called the principal headmaster or headmistress.
He or she runs the school.
He or she is the most important person in school.
Police
We need a police station in our neighborhood.
Every country has laws and rules. So have we.
Often people break these rules and make others suffer.
The police stop people from breaking laws punish the culprits.
Policemen also control traffic on the roads.
They see to it that vehicles and people move safely and without accidents on the roads.
Post office
We often write letters to our friends and relatives.
Sometimes we send them money and parcels.
We also get letters or money or parcels from we know.
It is the post office which takes of such things.
We write our letters either on post –cards or inland letter from forms.
We also write on paper and send it in a stamped envelope.
Our envelopes and other packages need stamps on them.
Post-cards, inland letter forms and stamps are sold at post offices.
You would have all seen post-boxes on the sides of the roads.
These are long and red boxes.
You usually put your ordinary letters into this box.
Ordinary letters can also be posted at the post office.
Journey of a letter
A post man collects the letters from the post-box.
He takes them to the post office.
The letters collected from post boxes are then sorted out.
to sort means to keep all mail for Mumbai in one bag, mail foe Chennai, mail for Calcutta in another mail for USA in yet another one, and so on.
The red mail van takes them to the railway station or the airport.
The trains or planes take the mail bags to the right city, town or village. When a mail bag reaches the right place, it goes first to the local post office.
The postman there knows all the people in their neighborhood.
The address should be neatly and clearly written on the letters and parcels. You must always write the pin code also.
You can send and get money through the post office.
This is through money order forms.
You can also keep your money safely at the post office.
Sometimes we need to send important news very quickly to someone.
Then we send a telegram.
Messages by telegram reach very fast.
Telegram is also sent from post offices.
Nowadays we send SMS message through cell hones and from internet through e mails.
Bank service
People usually keep their money, jeweler and important papers in the bank.
It is not quite safe to keep such things at home.
Other services
There are other services and facilities that a good neighborhood should have, like:-
1) Electricity supply office.
2) telephone exchange
3) Fire –station.