People as Resource: Questions and Answers
Q1: What is the literacy rate of India as per 2001 census?
(a) 60%
(b) 62%
(c) 65%
(d) 70%
Q2: Which is the most literate state in India?
(a) Bihar
(b) Kerala
(c) Goa
(d) Assam
Q3: Which one of the following is an activity of the secondary sector?
(a) Manufacturing
(b) Agriculture
(c) Education
(d) Mining
Q4: Which of the following sectors is related to agriculture, forestry and dairy?
(a) Primary Sector
(b) Tertiary Sector
(c) Secondary Sector
(d) None of these
Q5: PHC stands for
(a) Public Health Club
(b) Private Health Club
(c) Primary Health Centre
(d) None of these
Q6: What is the major aim of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan?
(a) To provide elementary education to women
(b) To provide elementary education to the rural poor
(c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
(d) To provide elementary education to the urban poor
Q7: What is the life expectancy in India according to the census of 2000?
(a) 72 years
(b) 53 years
(c) 64 years
(d) 80 years
Q8: According to the census of 2000, Infant mortality rate (IMR) has come down to
(a) 147
(b) 100
(c) 84
(d) 75
Q9: Decrease in IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) of a country signifies :
(a) Increase in life expectancy
(b) Increase in GNP
(c) Economic development of a country
(d) Increase in number of colleges in a country
Q10: Which of the following is a liability for the economy?
(a) Illiteracy
(b) Healthy Population
(c) Skilled Workers
(d) Universities
Q11: Which is an economic activity in the following?
(a) Work of Nurse at her home
(b) Work of Doctor at their home
(c) Work of Teacher in the school
(d) None of the above
Q12: Which one of the following is considered important to create a ‘virtuous cycle’ by the parents?
(a) To send their children to the school
(b) To provide good food to their children
(c) To join their children incorporate schools
(d) To take care of the health and education of their children
Q13: Tertiary sector of the economy includes
(a) Tourism
(b) Forestry
(c) Quarrying
(d) Agriculture
Q14: Type of employment when people are not able to find jobs during some parts of the year is called
(a) Disguised employment
(b) Seasonal employment
(c) Expected employment
(d) Educated employment
Q15: When more people are employed than required for a particular job it is known as
(a) unemployment
(b) seasonal unemployment
(c) disguised unemployment
(d) employment
Q16: Which sector includes Agriculture and Animal Husbandry?
(a) Primary Sector
(b) Secondary Sector
(c) Tertiary Sector
(d) None of these
Q17: Government has set schools in each district called (a) Army Schools
(b) Navodaya Vidyalaya
(c) Sainik School
(d) Missionary School
Q18: Which of the following is a significant step towards providing elementary education to
all the children in the age group of 6-14 years?
(a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
(b) Adult Education Programme
(c) Mid-day meal
(d) None of the above
Q19: Which of the following is not included in national income?
(a) Doctor services in a clinic
(b) Domestic chores of housewives
(c) Teaching services in schools
(d) Lawyer consulting services
Q20: The number of females per thousand males refers to
(a) Sex Ratio
(b) Literacy Rate
(c) Infant Mortality Rate
(d) Birth Rate
Answer:
1. (c) 65%
2. (b) Kerala
3. (a) Manufacturing
4. (a) Primary Sector
5. (c) Primary Health Centre
6. (c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
7. (c) 64 years
8. (d) 75
9. (a) Increase in life expectancy
10. (a) Illiteracy
11. (c) Work of Teacher in the school
12. (d) To take care of the health and education of their children
13. (a) Tourism
14. (b) Seasonal employment
15. (c) disguised unemployment
16. (a) Primary Sector
17. (b) Navodaya Vidyalaya
18. (a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
19. (b) Domestic chores of housewives
20. (a) Sex Ratio
Question-21
What do you understand by ‘people as a resource’?
Answer:
‘People as Resource’ is a way of referring to a country’s working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities. Human resource is an asset for the economy rather than a liability. The population becomes human capital when there is an investment made in the form of education, training and medical care. In fact, human capital is the stock of skill and productive knowledge embodied in them.
Question-22
How is human resource different from other resources like land and physical capital?
Answer:
Human capital is in one-way superior to other resources like land and physical capital: human resource can make use of land and physical capital. Land and physical capital cannot become useful on its own.
Question-23
What is the role of education in human capital formation?
Answer:
Educated people find jobs in private firms while uneducated people continue with the same work as their parents. They earn a meagre income like their parents, which is just enough to support a family. Several years of education adds to the quality of labour. This enhances their total productivity. Total productivity adds to the growth of the economy. This, in turn, pays an individual through salary or in some other form of his choice. It is a known fact that with investments made on education and health; one can yield a high return in the future in the form of higher earnings and greater contribution to society.
Question-24
What is the role of health in human capital formation?
Answer:
The health of a person helps him to realise his potential and the ability to fight illness. An unhealthy person becomes a liability for an organisation. Health is an indispensable basis for realising one’s well being. Henceforth, improvement in the health status of the population has been the priority of the country. Our national policy, too, aimed at improving the accessibility of healthcare, family welfare and nutritional service with special focus on the underprivileged segment of the population.
Question-25
What part does health play in the individual’s working life?
Answer:
Health plays a vital role in an individual’s working life since no firm would be induced to employ people who might not work efficiently as healthy workers because of ill health and not only that, people who are physically or mentally ill cannot work.
Question-26
What are the various activities are undertaken in the primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector?
Answer:
The various activities have been classified into three main sectors i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary sector includes agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing, poultry farming, and mining. Quarrying and manufacturing is included in the secondary sector. Trade, transport, communication, banking, education, health, tourism, services, insurance etc. are included in the tertiary sector.
Question-27
What is the difference between economic activities and non-economic activities?
Answer:
Economic Activities Non-Economic Activities The activities in the third sector result in the production of goods and services. Activities, which are not performed to earn money but to get some satisfaction, are called non-economic activities. These activities add value to the national income. These activities are called economic activities. These activities are performed to discharge the social obligation or for physical fitness or for recreation. Economic activities have two parts — market activities and non-market activities. Market activities involve remuneration to anyone who performs. People visiting places of worship, providing relief to the victims of flood and earthquake, engaging in sports activities, gardening, listening to the radio or watching television are all examples of non-economic activities Non-market activities are the production for self-consumption. The three activities most often reported are cleaning, cooking and childminding.
Question-28
Why are women employed in low paid work?
Answer:
Women are paid for their work when they enter the labour market. Their earning, like that of their male counterpart, is determined on the basis of education and skill. A majority of the women have meagre education and low skill formation and hence women are paid low compared to men. Most women work where job security is not there.
Question-29
How will you explain the term unemployment?
Answer:
Unemployment is said to exist when people who are willing to work at the going wages but cannot find jobs.
Question-30
What is the difference between disguised unemployment and seasonal unemployment?
Answer:
Disguised UnEmployment Seasonal UnEmployment In case of disguised unemployment people appear to be employed. Seasonal unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the year. They have an agricultural plot where they find work. This usually happens among family members engaged in agricultural activity. People dependent upon agriculture usually face such kind of problem. The work requires the service of five people but engages eight people. There are certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weeding, threshing is done. Three people are extra. These three people also work in the same plot as five people. The contribution made by the three extra people does not add to the contribution made by the five people. If three people are removed the productivity of the field will not decline. The field requires the service of five people and the three extra people are disguisedly employed. Certain months do not provide much work to the people dependant on agriculture.
Question-31
Why is educated unemployed, a peculiar problem of India?
Answer:
In the case of India educated unemployment has become a common phenomenon. Many youths with matriculation, graduation and post-graduation degrees are not able to find jobs. A study shows that unemployment of graduate and post-graduate has increased faster than among matriculates. A paradoxical manpower situation is witnessed as a surplus of manpower in certain categories coexist with a shortage of manpower in others.
Question-32
In which field do you think India can build the maximum employment opportunity?
Answer:
Since agriculture is the backbone of India, India can build maximum employment opportunity in agriculture-based industries.
Question-33
Can you imagine some village which initially had no job opportunities but later came up with many?
Answer:
Sriperambathur, Nanganneri, Koodangulam, etc. are some of the villages which did not have job opportunities earlier but later came up.
Question-34
Which capital would you consider the best — land, labour, physical capital and human capital? Why?
Answer:
The capital I consider the best is Human Capital because there are countries like Japan that have invested in human resource as they did not have any natural resource. These countries are developed and rich countries. They import the natural resource needed in their country. They have invested in people especially in the field of education and health. These people have made efficient use of other resources like land and capital. Efficiency and technology evolved by people have made these countries rich and developed.
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Q1: What is the literacy rate of India as per 2001 census?
(a) 60%
(b) 62%
(c) 65%
(d) 70%
Q2: Which is the most literate state in India?
(a) Bihar
(b) Kerala
(c) Goa
(d) Assam
Q3: Which one of the following is an activity of the secondary sector?
(a) Manufacturing
(b) Agriculture
(c) Education
(d) Mining
Q4: Which of the following sectors is related to agriculture, forestry and dairy?
(a) Primary Sector
(b) Tertiary Sector
(c) Secondary Sector
(d) None of these
Q5: PHC stands for
(a) Public Health Club
(b) Private Health Club
(c) Primary Health Centre
(d) None of these
Q6: What is the major aim of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan?
(a) To provide elementary education to women
(b) To provide elementary education to the rural poor
(c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
(d) To provide elementary education to the urban poor
Q7: What is the life expectancy in India according to the census of 2000?
(a) 72 years
(b) 53 years
(c) 64 years
(d) 80 years
Q8: According to the census of 2000, Infant mortality rate (IMR) has come down to
(a) 147
(b) 100
(c) 84
(d) 75
Q9: Decrease in IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) of a country signifies :
(a) Increase in life expectancy
(b) Increase in GNP
(c) Economic development of a country
(d) Increase in number of colleges in a country
Q10: Which of the following is a liability for the economy?
(a) Illiteracy
(b) Healthy Population
(c) Skilled Workers
(d) Universities
Q11: Which is an economic activity in the following?
(a) Work of Nurse at her home
(b) Work of Doctor at their home
(c) Work of Teacher in the school
(d) None of the above
Q12: Which one of the following is considered important to create a ‘virtuous cycle’ by the parents?
(a) To send their children to the school
(b) To provide good food to their children
(c) To join their children incorporate schools
(d) To take care of the health and education of their children
Q13: Tertiary sector of the economy includes
(a) Tourism
(b) Forestry
(c) Quarrying
(d) Agriculture
Q14: Type of employment when people are not able to find jobs during some parts of the year is called
(a) Disguised employment
(b) Seasonal employment
(c) Expected employment
(d) Educated employment
Q15: When more people are employed than required for a particular job it is known as
(a) unemployment
(b) seasonal unemployment
(c) disguised unemployment
(d) employment
Q16: Which sector includes Agriculture and Animal Husbandry?
(a) Primary Sector
(b) Secondary Sector
(c) Tertiary Sector
(d) None of these
Q17: Government has set schools in each district called (a) Army Schools
(b) Navodaya Vidyalaya
(c) Sainik School
(d) Missionary School
Q18: Which of the following is a significant step towards providing elementary education to
all the children in the age group of 6-14 years?
(a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
(b) Adult Education Programme
(c) Mid-day meal
(d) None of the above
Q19: Which of the following is not included in national income?
(a) Doctor services in a clinic
(b) Domestic chores of housewives
(c) Teaching services in schools
(d) Lawyer consulting services
Q20: The number of females per thousand males refers to
(a) Sex Ratio
(b) Literacy Rate
(c) Infant Mortality Rate
(d) Birth Rate
Answer:
1. (c) 65%
2. (b) Kerala
3. (a) Manufacturing
4. (a) Primary Sector
5. (c) Primary Health Centre
6. (c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
7. (c) 64 years
8. (d) 75
9. (a) Increase in life expectancy
10. (a) Illiteracy
11. (c) Work of Teacher in the school
12. (d) To take care of the health and education of their children
13. (a) Tourism
14. (b) Seasonal employment
15. (c) disguised unemployment
16. (a) Primary Sector
17. (b) Navodaya Vidyalaya
18. (a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
19. (b) Domestic chores of housewives
20. (a) Sex Ratio
Question-21
What do you understand by ‘people as a resource’?
Answer:
‘People as Resource’ is a way of referring to a country’s working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities. Human resource is an asset for the economy rather than a liability. The population becomes human capital when there is an investment made in the form of education, training and medical care. In fact, human capital is the stock of skill and productive knowledge embodied in them.
Question-22
How is human resource different from other resources like land and physical capital?
Answer:
Human capital is in one-way superior to other resources like land and physical capital: human resource can make use of land and physical capital. Land and physical capital cannot become useful on its own.
Question-23
What is the role of education in human capital formation?
Answer:
Educated people find jobs in private firms while uneducated people continue with the same work as their parents. They earn a meagre income like their parents, which is just enough to support a family. Several years of education adds to the quality of labour. This enhances their total productivity. Total productivity adds to the growth of the economy. This, in turn, pays an individual through salary or in some other form of his choice. It is a known fact that with investments made on education and health; one can yield a high return in the future in the form of higher earnings and greater contribution to society.
Question-24
What is the role of health in human capital formation?
Answer:
The health of a person helps him to realise his potential and the ability to fight illness. An unhealthy person becomes a liability for an organisation. Health is an indispensable basis for realising one’s well being. Henceforth, improvement in the health status of the population has been the priority of the country. Our national policy, too, aimed at improving the accessibility of healthcare, family welfare and nutritional service with special focus on the underprivileged segment of the population.
Question-25
What part does health play in the individual’s working life?
Answer:
Health plays a vital role in an individual’s working life since no firm would be induced to employ people who might not work efficiently as healthy workers because of ill health and not only that, people who are physically or mentally ill cannot work.
Question-26
What are the various activities are undertaken in the primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector?
Answer:
The various activities have been classified into three main sectors i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary sector includes agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing, poultry farming, and mining. Quarrying and manufacturing is included in the secondary sector. Trade, transport, communication, banking, education, health, tourism, services, insurance etc. are included in the tertiary sector.
Question-27
What is the difference between economic activities and non-economic activities?
Answer:
Economic Activities Non-Economic Activities The activities in the third sector result in the production of goods and services. Activities, which are not performed to earn money but to get some satisfaction, are called non-economic activities. These activities add value to the national income. These activities are called economic activities. These activities are performed to discharge the social obligation or for physical fitness or for recreation. Economic activities have two parts — market activities and non-market activities. Market activities involve remuneration to anyone who performs. People visiting places of worship, providing relief to the victims of flood and earthquake, engaging in sports activities, gardening, listening to the radio or watching television are all examples of non-economic activities Non-market activities are the production for self-consumption. The three activities most often reported are cleaning, cooking and childminding.
Question-28
Why are women employed in low paid work?
Answer:
Women are paid for their work when they enter the labour market. Their earning, like that of their male counterpart, is determined on the basis of education and skill. A majority of the women have meagre education and low skill formation and hence women are paid low compared to men. Most women work where job security is not there.
Question-29
How will you explain the term unemployment?
Answer:
Unemployment is said to exist when people who are willing to work at the going wages but cannot find jobs.
Question-30
What is the difference between disguised unemployment and seasonal unemployment?
Answer:
Disguised UnEmployment Seasonal UnEmployment In case of disguised unemployment people appear to be employed. Seasonal unemployment happens when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the year. They have an agricultural plot where they find work. This usually happens among family members engaged in agricultural activity. People dependent upon agriculture usually face such kind of problem. The work requires the service of five people but engages eight people. There are certain busy seasons when sowing, harvesting, weeding, threshing is done. Three people are extra. These three people also work in the same plot as five people. The contribution made by the three extra people does not add to the contribution made by the five people. If three people are removed the productivity of the field will not decline. The field requires the service of five people and the three extra people are disguisedly employed. Certain months do not provide much work to the people dependant on agriculture.
Question-31
Why is educated unemployed, a peculiar problem of India?
Answer:
In the case of India educated unemployment has become a common phenomenon. Many youths with matriculation, graduation and post-graduation degrees are not able to find jobs. A study shows that unemployment of graduate and post-graduate has increased faster than among matriculates. A paradoxical manpower situation is witnessed as a surplus of manpower in certain categories coexist with a shortage of manpower in others.
Question-32
In which field do you think India can build the maximum employment opportunity?
Answer:
Since agriculture is the backbone of India, India can build maximum employment opportunity in agriculture-based industries.
Question-33
Can you imagine some village which initially had no job opportunities but later came up with many?
Answer:
Sriperambathur, Nanganneri, Koodangulam, etc. are some of the villages which did not have job opportunities earlier but later came up.
Question-34
Which capital would you consider the best — land, labour, physical capital and human capital? Why?
Answer:
The capital I consider the best is Human Capital because there are countries like Japan that have invested in human resource as they did not have any natural resource. These countries are developed and rich countries. They import the natural resource needed in their country. They have invested in people especially in the field of education and health. These people have made efficient use of other resources like land and capital. Efficiency and technology evolved by people have made these countries rich and developed.
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