STD-10 SOCIAL-SCIENCE CH-19 QUIZ (ENG-MED)
STD-10 SOCIAL-SCIENCE (ENG-MED)
Q 1. What challenges does India face with respect to health of the people?
ANS: Although India has made several efforts for improving the health of people, there are several negative sides too. In India, water bom diseases and malnutrition have increased. Till date many Indian women and children belonging to poor class do not get nutritious food. The suffer from lack of nutrients, basis minerals, many vitamins and proteins.
As a result, their body cannot develop properly and fully and they keep on suffering from various health problems. With rise in development and population, the problems of environment pollution and poisonous gases have become a common problem.
Our administrators are not able to handle the increasing urbanization and crowded habitats. So, providing suitable and sufficient health facilities for all remains an ever standing issue.
Q 2. Healthy people lead to healthier nation. Give reason.
ANS: Health of a person is the most important and invaluable asset for the person himself as well as the nation. If the people of nation are healthy, they can lead a happier and a motivated life. People with poor health fall sick quite often. So, they cannot go to work. This decreases the productivity of the nation and hence the economy. Healthy people can work regularly, by remaining motivated and with higher efficiency. Hence, healthy people can make the economy of the nation healthier.
Q 3. State a few reasons due to which the developing countries have not being able to achieve economic and social development.
ANS: Indifference or dislike towards improvement. Low aspirations. Illiteracy in both male and female. Lack of entrepreneurship. Suspicion and superstition, old, rigid and orthodox thinking and traditions. Improper use of natural resources. Improper family planning. Not allowing women to empower, etc.
Q 4. India has to go a long way in HDI improvement. Give reason.
ANS: As the name suggests, the Human Development Index is highly associated with the development of humans. Unlike material resources, it is extremely difficult to develop humans so as to improve overall HDI. Government needs to put a lot of efforts to motivate humans to take up education, take care of their health, etc. Moreover, the government also needs to create huge infrastructural facilities along with several schemes for human welfare, so that people’s overall development takes place and our HDI rises.
Even today, about 70% of our population resides in villages. It is quite difficult and a challenging task to make understand the rural mass about various government schemes, advantages of literacy, raising their living standards, etc. So, if India needs to improve its HDI, it needs to put strenuous efforts to handle the rural mass and hence, India has to go along way in HDI improvement.
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