Kerala State Syllabus 10th Standard Social Science Important Questions Chapter 3 Human Resource Development in India
Answer the following. Score 1 each.
Choose the correct answer.
Question 1.
People who have the manpower which can be utilised in the production sector.
Natural resource
Human resource
Mineral resource
Answer:
Human resource.
Question 2.
Which of the following is a quantitative feature of human resource?
Education
Life expectancy
Growth of population
Answer:
Growth of population
Question 3.
Healthcare is
Qualitative feature of human resource
Quantitative feature of human resource
Value of human resource
Answer:
Qualitative feature of human resource
Question 4.
The last census of India was conducted in
2001
2011
2010
Answer:
2011
Question 5.
When birth rate increases and death rate decreases
population increases
population decreases
no change in population
Answer:
population increases
Question 6.
The project aimed at the integrated development of children upto 6 years
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Integrated Child Development Scheme
Integrated Mother Development Scheme
Answer:
Integrated Child Development Scheme
Question 7.
The aim of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
To increase the access to higher education
Answer:
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
Question 8.
The project ensuring access to higher education
SSA
RMS A
RUSA
Answer:
RUSA
Answer in a sentence each.
Question 1.
What does the society get from the work of different groups of people to fulfill its need?
Answer:
Goods and services
Question 2.
What is meant by human resource?
Answer:
Human resource refers to people who have manpower which can be utilised in the production sector.
Question 3.
Name the factors that make human resource development possible.
Answer:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Training
Question 4.
How are the features of human resource classified?
Answer:
- Quantitative features
- Qualitative features
Question 5.
Name the institution that spearheads census activities in India.
Answer:
Office of the Population Registrar General Census Commissioner.
Question 6.
What is density of population?
Answer:
Density of population refers to the number of people residing in a square kilometer area.
Question 7.
Why is July 11 selected as World Population day?
Answer:
The world population reached 500 crore on July 11, 1987. So July 11 is selected as world population day.
Question 8.
What is meant by sex ratio?
Answer:
Sex ratio is the number of females per 1000 males.
Question 9.
What is life expectancy?
Answer:
Life expectancy is the average number of years that a person lives.
Question 10.
What is literacy rate?
Answer:
Literacy rate refers to the percentage of population that can read and write with comprehension.
Question 11.
Name the national project that launched to compensate the shortage of skilled people.
Answer:
National Skill Development Corporation.
Question 12.
Which is the project launched to ensure the integrated development of children upto 6 years and to provide healthcare for pregnant and lactating women?
Answer:
Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)
Question 13.
What is the primary goal of the project Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan?
Answer:
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
Question 14.
Which is the project formed by integrating Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan?
Answer:
Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
Question 15.
Which is the project launched to increase the access to higher education and to improve the quality of higher education?
Answer:
Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)
Question 16.
Name the project launched to improve the working skill of the youth.
Answer:
National Skill Development and Monetary Reward Scheme.
Question 17.
What does the RTE Act ensure?
Answer:
The Right to Education Act ensures the goal of elementary education for all.
Question 18.
How does WHO define ‘health’?
Answer:
According to WHO, health is a state of physical, mental and social well being.
Question 19.
Name two governmental agencies that function to make available quality health services to all.
Answer:
- National Rural Health Mission
- National Urban Health Mission
Answer the following. Score ‘2’ each.
Question 1.
Why is it said that human resource is necessary for the progress of any country?
Answer:
Many goods and services are needed to fulfil the different needs of the people in a country. Manpower is an important factor in making available the goods and services. No society cannot exist without physical and mental manpower.
Question 2.
What is meant by human resource development?
Answer:
Human resource development is the development of man’s physical and mental abilities through education, healthcare and training.
Question 3.
Which are the agencies that work for developing physical and mental manpower?
Answer:
- Individuals
- Families
- Various institutions
- Nation
Question 4.
What is demography?
Answer:
The branch of social science that analyses the population, the changes in its size, its structural aspects, etc. is known as demography.
Question 5.
What is census?
Answer:
Each country collects information on the number of people in the country, their age, sex, socio¬economic status, etc. and analyses these at specific intervals of time. It is called census.
Question 6.
Which are the qualitative features of human resource?
Answer:
- Education
- Healthcare
Question 7.
What is meant by population structure?
Answer:
Population structure is the classification of population into different age groups and presenting the ratio of each group in the population. The classification includes age groups like 0-14 years, 15-59 years and 60 and above years.
Question 8.
Write the aims of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
Answer:
- To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
- To ensure quality and equity.
Question 9.
Write the aims of Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan?
Answer:
- To increase the access to higher education
- To improve the quality of higher education.
Question 10.
What are the qualitative factors that improve the labour potential?
Answer:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Training
- Social capital
Question 11.
Which are the various factors included in the quantitative features of human resource?
Answer:
- Size of population
- Density of population
- Growth of population
- Structure of population.
Question 12.
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) are the two systems that operate to make available quality health services to all. Write their functions.
Answer:
- NRHM operates in the rural sector.
- NUHM provides improved health services to the residents of urban slums and other marginalised people in towns with a population of more than 50000.
Question 13.
People with labour potential is the strength of a nation. Which are the qualitative factors that improve labour potential?
Answer:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Improving the skills of the individuals
- Imparting the technological know-how.
Answer the following. Score ‘3’ each.
Question 1.
What are the advantages of improved human resource?
Answer:
Education, healthcare and training are the factors that help to improve human resource. The advantages of improved human resource are:
- Productivity of the workers increases
- Entrepreneurship improves
- Social welfare is ensured
- Economic inequality is reduced
- Natural resource is utilised effectively
- Makes possible the development and use of advanced technology.
Question 2.
Complete the flowchart showing the relationship between education and human resource development.
Answer:
a. Improves the skills of individuals
b. Betters the technological know – how
c. Helps to secure better job and income
Question 3.
There still exists many problems in education sector. Which are they? Write your solutions to this.
Answer:
Problems
- Certain section drop out from schools without completing primary education.
- There is a lack of availability of basic facilities in the education sector.
- Quality of education has to be improved. Solutions
- Prevent drop out from schools
- Improve the quality of education
Question 4.
Complete the sun diagram related to facilities to be ensured for healthcare.
Answer:
- Availability of clean water
- Preventive measures
- Cleanliness
- Medical facilities
- Ensuring of leisure and entertainment
- Awareness about communicable diseases.
Question 5.
Explain the terms:
- Birth rate
- Death rate
- Migration
Answer:
- Birth rate: Birth rate is the number of live births per 1000.
- Death rate : Death rate is the number of deaths per 1000.
- Migration: Migration is the settlement of people of a region in another region.
Question 6.
Which is the national project for the welfare of children? Write its goals.
Answer:
- Integrated Child Development Scheme. Goals
- To ertsure integrated development of children upto 6 years.
- To provide healthcare for pregnant and lactating women.
Question 7.
Which is the national project to improve the working skill of the youth? Write its goals.
Answer:
National Skill Development and Monetary Reward Scheme.
Goals
- To improve the working skills of the youth.
- To ensure the availability of people with employable skills.
Question 8.
Write any two projects implemented in the educational sector to develop human resource.
Answer:
- Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan:
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
To ensure quality and equity.
To promote vocational education. - Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan:
To increase the access to higher education.
To improve the quality of higher education.
Question 9.
Choose the correct options related to columns A and B.
| A | B |
| i. Integrated Child Development Scheme | To ensure integrated development of children upto 6 years |
| ii. Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan | To improve the working skills of the youth |
| iii. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan | To ensure universal education to all up to higher secondary level |
a. i and ii are correct
b. ii and iii are correct
c. i and ii are correct
d. i, ii and iii are correct
Answer:
a. i and iii are correct
Answer the following. Score ‘4’ each
Question 1.
Write the different levels of human resource development.
Answer:
- Individuals take efforts to develop their own skills.
- Family creates an environment for the development of the potential of the individuals.
- Various institutions and agencies provide facilities for education and training.
- Nation provides the necessary facilities for its people to develop their skills.
Question 2.
Write the features of Indian population.
Answer:
India ranks second in world population. According to the census report of 2011, there are 121.02 crore people in India. Out of this, 58.65 crore are females and 62.37 crore are males. 17.5 percentage of world population is in India. One in six person of the world population is an Indian.
The sex ratio in India is 940. The dependent population of those in the age group of 0-14 years and 60 and above years constitutes 37.49%. The working group in the age group of 15-59 constitutes 62.5%. The literacy rate of India is 74.04 and life expectancy is 66.1.
Question 3.
What is meant by density of population? Explain how the population density of an area influence the availability of human resources?
Answer:
Density of population is the number of people living in a square kilometer area.
When density of population increases, the human resource of that region also increases. It means the manpower of that region increases. When density of population increases, the number of people who can provide physical and mental manpower also increases.
This will create a suitable situation for the setting up of production units there which will lead to the increase in the production of goods and services. Human resource availability is more in areas of high density of population and vice verse.
Question 4.
The growth rate of Indian population has decreased considerably from 24.80 percentage of 1971 to 17.64 percentage of 2011. But the population has increased. What may be the reason?
Answer:
The population of India in 1971 was 54.82 crore. The growth rate percentage was 24.66. The population of2001 was 102.87 crore. The growth rate of population up to 2001 was 21.54%. It decreased to 17.64% in 2011. The growth rate of 17.64% of 102. 87 crore will have more increase in number than the 24.66% of 54.82 crore.
Question 5.
Explain the changes in the population of a country based on birth rate, death rate and migration.
Answer:
Birth rate is the number of live births per 1000.
Death rate is the number of deaths per 1000.
Migration is the settlement of people of a region in another region.
Birth rate, death rate and migration are the factors that affect the population of a country.
Question 6.
Write a short note on the quantitative features of human resources.
Answer:
Size of population: The size of population refers to the total number of people residing in a country at a particular time.
Density of population: It refers to the number of people per square kilometre area.
Growth of population: Population growth refers to the increase in the number of people in an area within a specific period of time. Birth rate is the number of live births per 1000. Death rate is the number of deaths per 1000.
Population structure includes the following:
Age structure: The classification of population into different age groups and presenting the ratio of each group in the population.
Sex ratio: It is the number of femaÍes per 1000 males.
Labour force participation rate: It is the ratio of the population in the age group 15 – 59, who are either employed or actively looking for jobs.
Dependency ratio: The age groups 0 – 14 years and 60 years and above are included in the dependent group. Their proportion in total population is known as dependency ratio.
Question 7.
Explain how sex ratio influences the economic development of a nation.
Answer:
Sex ratio is the number of females per 1000 males. The males contribute a great amount of manpower. The sex ratio of India is 940 females for 1000 males. So more manpower is available. This will be vourableto the economic development of the nation. The rate of economic development of the nation will grow further if the manpower of the present labour force of females is also used effectively.
Question 8.
How does human resource development help economic development?
Answer:
Economic development means progress in education, health and culture along with economic growth. The physical and mental manpower should be developed to attain economic development. Qualitative factors like education, healthcare and training make this possible. The improved human resource will pave the way for economic development. Like natural resources, human resource are also important for economic development. When natural resources are combined with human efforts, there is an increase in production leading to economic development.
Question 9.
It is not an increase in population, but people with potential and skills that make the development of a country possible. Substantiate.
Answer:
Increase in population will increase the availability of human resource. But a labour force with potential and skills is essential for increasing production for economic development. Unproductive people will be a liability to the nation. People with potential and labour skill will lead the country to economic development. The population of the country will be a blessing to it if majority of them can be turned to improved human resource through education, healthcare and training.
Question 10.
Explain how healthcare will help for human resource development and national progress.
Answer:
Health is a state of physical, mental and social well being. Healthy persons can participate in the progress of a country in the following ways.
- Production increases with the increase in efficiency and the number of working days.
- Natural resources can be utilised properly.
- Economic development is possible through increase in production.
- Medical expenses can be reduced thereby reducing the government’s expenditure.
Question 11.
The main reason for the wealth and poverty of the world is the difference in the rate of development of manpower. Do you agree with this? Explain.
Answer:
Increase in income will raise the standard of living of the people of a country. To ensure increase in income, employment opportunities should be made available. Along with this, manpower development should occur to do the available jobs efficiently. In a country that develops human resource through education, healthcare, training and skill development, the labour force also develops. In brief, increase in income and economic development will occur where correct manpower development takes place. So the reason for the wealth and poverty of the world is the difference in the rate of development of manpower.
Question 12.
Which are the various institutions and projects aimed at healthcare implemented by the government?
Answer:
The various institutions ensuring healthcare:
- Medical colleges
- District hospitals
- Community health centres
- Primary health centres
- Health sub-centres
The various projects for qualitative healthcare:
Integrated child Development Scheme:
- To ensure integrated development of children upto 6 years
- To provide healthcare for pregnant and lactating women.
National Rural Health Mission
National Urban Health Mission
Question 13.
Problems still exist in the education and health sector. Write your response to this.
Answer:
Problems in education sector
- Certain sections drop out form schools without completing primary education.
- There is lack of availability of basic, facilities in the education sector.
- Quality of education is yet to be improved.
Problems in health sector
- Lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas.
- Lack of healthcare facilities in proportion to population.
- Increasing medical expense in both public and private sectors.
Answer the following. Score ‘5‘, ‘6’ each
Question 1.
Why are population studies conducted?
OR
How do you think population study helps the government? Justify your opinion.
Answer:
- Helps the government to quantitatively assess the different needs of the people and to plan activities and programmes accordingly.
- Informs the availability of human resource in a country.
- Depicts the extent of basic facilities required by the people.
- Quantifies the goods and services required.
- Determines the socio-economic development policies.
- To assess the standard of living of the people.
- To compare with the population of other countries.
Question 2.
Write your inferences based on the table showing the population growth rate in India.
| Year | Population (in crores) | Decadal growth rate (in percentage) |
| 1951 | 36.11 | 13.31(1941-51) |
| 1961 | 43.90 | 21.64(1951-61) |
| 1971 | 54.82 | 24.80(1961-71) |
| 1981 | 68.33 | 24.66(1971-81) |
| 1991 | 84.64 | 23.87(1981-91) |
| 2001 | 102.87 | 21.54(1991-2001) |
| 2011 | 121.02 | 17.64(2001-11) |
Answer:
- The rate of growth of population was high in the early decades after independence. The growth rate which was 13.31 in 1951 increased to21.64 in 1961.
- The highest growth rate 24.80% was recorded in 1971. The growth rate began to decline in the following decades.
- The growth rate began to decline from 1971 onwards.
- The lowest growth rate of 17.64 was recorded in 2011.
- The population of 36.11 of 1951 increased to 121.02 in 2011, within a period of 60 years.
- The population of India grew by 84.91 crore within a period of 60 years (1951-2011). The population grew three times within a period of 60 years.
Question 3.
List the projects implemented in India to develop education and skills.
Answer:
The following are the projects and their goals implemented to develop human resource through education, training and developing skills.
Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS):
To ensure integrated development of children up to 6 years.
To provide healthcare for pregnant and lactating women.
Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA):
To ensure universal education to all upto higher secondary level.
To ensure quality and equity.
Rashtriya Ucbthal Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA):
To increase the access to higher education. To improve the quality of higher education.
National Skill Development and Monetary Reward Scheme:
- To improve the working skills of the youth.
- To ensure the availability of people with çmployable skills.
Question 4.
Prepare a paper on ‘The role of education and healthcare in human resource development.
Answer:
Human resource development is the development of man’s physical and mental abilities through education, healthcare and training.
Education and human resource development Education has a major role in moulding skilled
people. Education helps both in human resource development as well as in the development of a country.
Education –
- Improves the skills of individuals
- Betters the technological know-how. Helps to secure better job and income.
- Improves the standard of living
Projects implemented to develop education and skills are:
- Samagra Shikšha Abhiyan
- Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan
- National Skill Development and Monetary Reward Scheme
- Right to Education Act
Human resource development and healthcare
Health is a state of physical, mental and social well being. Healthy persons can participate in the progress of a country in the following ways.
- Production increases with the increase in efficiency and the number of working days.
- Natural resources can be utilised properly.
- Economic development ¡s possible through increase in production.
- Medical expenses can be reduced thereby reducing the government’s expenditure.
Institutions that help to improve healthcare:
- Medical Colleges
- District hospitals
- Community health centres
- Primary health centres
Health sub-centres
- Projects to Improve healthcare:
- Integrated Child Development Scheme
- National Rural Health Mission .
- National Urban Health Mission
Kerala Syllabus 10th Standard Social Science Important Questions