The word ‘resulted’ means ‘something that happens or exists because of something else’ and the word ‘nosedive’ means ‘a fast and sudden fall to the ground with the front pointing down’. These two words are appropriate here. The declining number of public-transport buses in Kerala has resulted in availability of buses nosediving to approximately 0.50 per 1,000 people, as compared to the national average of 1.33.
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