Although the people who live in India's villages

OK...after reading more closely I got it..

Meaning : As per this sentence, there are three things that got after independence : increased literacy, new roads, and improved farming techniques.

The above three things have to be in list i.e. X,Y and Z is the list and all of them have to be in the same from.. and there should be comma preceding before the last item.

So B makes sense...I thought it's an independent clause after comma...

Got confused with option B.

I thought that improved is acting as a verb in past tense form but it is not a verb here but an adjective.

All others don't maintain parallelism.

For option D, it is noun phrase || noun phrase || noun phrase

but the third phrase => farming techniques that are improved -- This is awkward and not precise. The phrase improved farming techniques is clean.

Thoughts?

The items in the list towards the end of the sentence have to be parallel.
If you try to elaborate the sentence, then it essentially says, the years… have brought iincreased literacy (A), have brought new roads (B), and have brought improved... (C).

Point to note here—also the reason for confusion—is that brought is the verb under which a set of things are introduced in the sentence. ‘improved’ is not a verb but an adjective that modifies ‘farming techniques’.

It’s a quick kill after this. We can scan through the options now.

Eliminate A – alters the meaning of the sentence. Treats ‘improved’ as a verb.
Eliminate C – does not maintain parallelism.
Eliminate D – lack of parallelism. All three items must agree with each other.
Eliminate E – same as all the others; parallelism error.

Option B is the best option.

Hope this helps!

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