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Class 09 - Social Science

1. Primary sector.
2. In the year 2000.
3. Any family which is below the poverty line gets a ration card. A ration card can buy them a stipulated amount of certain essential
commodities like food grains or kerosene, every month from a nearby ration shop.
4. The Supreme Court is the highest court of appeal in civil and criminal cases.
5. Disguised unemployment: When more persons are working in a job than actually required, the situation is termed as disguised
unemployment. For example, if in an agricultural activity eight people are engaged but this work/activity actually requires the
services of five people, then three persons are extra. If these three people out of eight are withdrawn, total production will remain
unaffected.
Seasonal unemployment: Seasonal unemployment occurs when people are able to find jobs only during some months of the year.
For Example, Agricultural labourers find work only during the busy seasons, i.e., sowing, harvesting, weeding and threshing. This
is because of the seasonal character of agriculture in India.
6. A. There has been a lot of over lapping of schemes.
B. Wide disparities between rural and urban areas in term of poverty.
C. Wide disparities between states in terms of poverty.
D. Certain social and economic groups are more vulnerable to poverty.
7. Issue price is the minimum price rate through which the government gives their food grains to the poor or to those people who are
below the poverty line. In order to help the poor strata of the society, the government provides them with food grains from the
buffer stock at a price much lower than the market price. This subsidized price is known as the Issue Price. The particular price at
which they offer shares for sale. This occurs at the time they become available to the public. Shares in the company slipped below
their issue price on their first day of trading. Investors earn the difference between the discount issue price and the full face value
paid at maturity.
OR
The dimensions of food security are:
(i) Availability of food: It is the food production within the country including food imports and previous year stock of food in
government granaries.
(ii) Accessibility: This means food within the reach of every person.
(iii) Affordability: This means whether the individual has enough money to buy sufficient and nutritious food.
8. (i) The government of India had appointed the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1979. It was headed by B.P. Mandal.
(ii) Hence, it was popularly called the Mandal Commission.
(iii) It was asked to determine the criteria to identify the socially and educationally backward classes in India and recommend
steps to be taken for their advancement.
(iv) The Commission gave a report in 1980 and made many recommendations. One of these was that 27 per cent of the
government jobs to be reserved for the socially and economically backward classes.
OR
i. The Prime Minister decides the members of the council of Minister.
ii. Prime Minister distributes the portfolios among the ministers according to his choice.
iii. Prime Minister presides over the meetings of Council of Minister.
iv. Prime Minister is the leader and the head of the Government.
9. I. A majority of women have a meagre education and low skill formation.
II. Hence, they are paid low as compared to men.
III. These women work also in the absence of job security, meagre legal protection and irregular low income.
IV. Women are also not provided with facilities such as maternity leave, childcare and other social security systems.
V. Most women work where there is no job security or in an unorganised sector.
OR
Human resource is considered to be the best resource because:
i. It is a way of referring to the country's working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities.
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ii. The population of a country helps to increase it's country’s Gross National Product by producing goods and services and even
searching for new ones.
iii. When existing human resource is developed by becoming more educated and healthy, we call it human capital formation that
adds to the productive power of a country just like physical capital information.
10. Poor people have to go through various human sufferings. Nobody would like to live in poverty. So, due to the following reasons,
we can say poverty is a curse on humanity as:
i. Poverty leads to hunger and lack of shelter. Poor people live in unhygienic conditions and invite the host of diseases.
ii. They lack medical facilities and die of diseases in want of timely and proper treatment.
iii. They are in a situation in which they are ill-treated at almost at places. Each time they are left with scars on their spirit of self-
respect.
iv. Poors live with a sense of helplessness.
v. Poor parents are not able to send their children to school. This leaves them unaware of the opportunities in life.
vi. The children of poor people have to earn their livelihood, even when they are not able to get their two square meals.
11. In the late 1960s, the Green Revolution introduced the Indian farmer to the cultivation of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds.
The HYVs (coupled with chemical fertilisers and pesticides) led to a growth in the productivity of food grains (especially wheat
and rice), thereby helping India attain self-sufficiency in food grains. Since the advent of the Green Revolution, the country has
avoided famine even during adverse weather conditions.
12. A. Lok Sabha is more powerful than the Rajya Sabha in money matter.
B. Money bill can only be introduced in Lok Sabha.
C. Ones the money bill is passed by the Lok Sabha the Rajya Sabha cannot reject it.
D. The party or group which attains the majority in Lok Sabha forms the Government.
E. Lok Sabha controls the council of Ministers.
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