PEOPLE AS A RESOURCE( EXERCISE QUESTION-ANSWER)-SST-CLASS-9

 

PEOPLE AS A RESOURCE
CLASS-9 (GEOGRAPHY
EXERCISE QUESTIONS

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Q1. What do you understand by 'people as a resource'?

Ans:  People as a resource is a way of reference to a country's working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities.

Q2. How is human resource different from other resources like land and physical capital?

Ans:  Human resources is different in the following ways:-

1.  Land and other resources are fixed, limited and specified whereas human resources can be nurtured through education and health.

2.  Human resources can bring a change in other sources whereas other sources cannot change or affect human resource.

3.  Human resource can make use of land and physical capital whereas land and physical capital cannot become useful in its own.

Q3. What is the role of education in human capital formation?

Ans.  The role of education in human capital formation is as follows:

1.  Educated people earn more than the uneducated people.

2.  Literate population is an asset to an economy.

3. It  leads to higher productivity.

4. It opens new avenues for a person.

5.  It provides new aspirations and develops value of life.

6.  It contributes to the growth of society.

7.  It enhance is the national income, cultural regionals and efficiency of the governance.

Q4. What is the role of health in human capital formation?

Ans.  The role of health in human capital formation is as follows:

1. Healthier people have higher productivity.

 2. The health of a person helps him to realize his potential and the ability to fight illness.

3.  It improves the quality of life a healthy person is able to do his work in a proper and efficient way.

4.  A healthy person makes greater contribution to society as compared to an unheally person.

5.  Good health enables a person to earn more and to be more regular in his work.

Q5. What part does health play in the individuals working life?

Ans. 

1.  Health play a very important role in an individual' s life.

2. As we all know health is wealth and only a healthy person can work or perform to his full potential.

3.  An healthy person cannot work efficiently.

4. A healthy person is able to work hard and better and earning more and leaving a better life.

5. If the body is healthy only then one can perform well.

6.  So we can say that health play a vital role in an invisibles life.

Q6. What are the various activities undertaken in the primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector?

Ans. 

 1. The various activities undertaken in the sectors are:

a)  Primary sector: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry,  fishing, poultry farming and mining.

b)  Secondary sector:  Manufacturing and construction.

c)  Tertiary sector:  Trade, transport, communication, banking, education, health, tourism services, insurance etc.

Q7. What is the difference between economic activities and non-economic activities?

Ans. 

Economic activities	Non- Economic activities
1.  It refers to a human activity related to production and consumption of goods and services for economic gain. 2.  These activities add value to the national income. 3.  These  are measured in monetary terms.	1.  It is an activity performed with the aim of providing services to the others without any regard to monetary gain. 2. These activities do not add any value to the national income and only for self consumption. 3.  These are not measured in monetary terms.

Q8. Why are women employed in low paid work?

Ans. 

1. Education and skill are the two determinants of the determinants of any individual in the market.

2.  The women work in places where there is no job security.

3.  The various activities related to legal protection are meagar.

4.  The majority of women has less education and low skill formation.

5.  All these factors lead to their irregular and low income.

So, they are paid less as compared to men.

Q9.  How will you explain the term unemployment?

Ans. 

 The term unemployment means situation where are section of the people, who are able and willing to work do not find any gainful work to do.

10. What is the difference between disguised unemployment and seasonal unemployment? 

Ans:

Discussed Unemployment

Seasonal Unemployment

1. In case of disguised unemployment people appear to be employed but they are not actually employed. 2.  Sometimes in agriculture families 8 people are working on a farm whereas only four people are needed to do that work. 3.  That 4 persons are surplus and they are not needed on the farm. 4.  They also do not help to increase the production.

1. Seasonal unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the year. 2.  People dependent upon agriculture usually face such problems. 3.  There are certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weeding and threshing are done. 4.  When the plants are growing, there is not much work during this period. 5.  They remain unemployed and set to be seasonally unemployed.

Q11. Why is educated unemployed a peculiar problem of India?

Ans.

 1. Educated unemployed is a peculiar problem of India because they are not able to find jobs for themselves.

2.  This is a situation where unemployment of graduates and post graduates has increased fastly.

3. A paradoxical situation is witnessed as there is surplus manpower in certain categories with shortage of manpower in others.

4. There is an employment among technically qualified persons on the one hand.

5.  While there are categories of technical skills required for economic growth.

Thus, it is a peculiar problem in India.

Q12. In which field do you think India can build the maximum employment opportunity?

Ans.

1.  There is no further scope in the primary sector because there is already disguised unemployment.

2. In the secondary sector small scale manufacturing is the most labour absorbing sector.

3.  In case of tertiary sector various new services like biotechnology and information technology are coming up.

 So, there is scope for the employment opportunities.

Q13. Can you suggest some measures in the education system to mitigate the problem of the educated unemployed?

Ans.

1. Vocational education should be encouraged so that people do not have difficulty in getting jobs because they will be better trained or work.

2.  More use of information technology should be made in given giving education.

3.  Education should be job oriented.

4. More employment opportunities should be made available to the educated people in the tertiary sector.

Q14. Can you imagine some village which initially had no job opportunities but later came up with many?

Ans. Do yourself.

Q15. Which you consider the best-  land, labour, physical capital and human capital? Why?

Ans. 

1.  Human capital is the best capital because it can make use of the land, labour and physical capital.

2. The other factors cannot become useful on their own.

3.  The knowledge expertise in a human enables him to develop land, labour and physical capital to produce.

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