1. We can infer from the passage that the infrastructural drawbacks of the area are battered and dusty roads, unsteady power supply and problem of governance.
2. The changes that the local youth and middle classes are looking for change of government.
3. The conversation at public gatherings in this area is about growing tensions among communities.
4. The word which is the same in meaning as 'decayed' in para 3 is: (i) battered.
5. The meaning of the word 'partly rural' in para 4 is: (ii) semi-agrarian.
What is infrastructural drawbacks?
Infrastructural drawbacks refer to the lack of infrastructures in a particular area which can result to underdevelopment of that area. When a particular area lack basic amenities and infrastructures, they experience infrastructural drawbacks.
Thus, we can deduce here the answers above are correct.
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