Rural Development

Q.

Define primary activities with examples

Q.

What is the meaning of rural economics?

Q. What is the impact of rural development?

1. Reduction in poverty of rural people
2. Reduction in migration to cities
3. Increase in urbanisation and globalisation
4. Reduction in unemployment in rural areas

Q. The Sarpanch of a village has made several policies for the developement of agricultural activites in the village. However, the village is still not developed in non-agricultural activities.

Suggest the steps that the Sarpanch should take for non-agricultural development.

1. Improve the education at village schools
2. Build a comupter training centre for skill building
3. Provide fertilisers and seeds at subsidised rates to the farmers
4. Build hospitals and healthcare centres

Q.

What do you understand by globalisation? Explain in your own words.

Q. The primary sector contributes the most to employment and national income.

1. True
2. False

Q. The __________ of the Indian population depends on the primary sector and contributes the __________ to the national income.

1. majority, majority
2. least, majority
3. majority, least
4. least, least

Q. The overall development of rural areas includes agricultural and development.

1. industrial
2. primary sector
3. tertiary sector
4. non-agricultural

Q. ___________________ is the integration and interconnection of world economies where goods, services, capital, and technology are exchanged between countries.

1. Privatisation
2. Liberalisation
3. Urbanisation
4. Globalisation

Q. Agricultural and non-agricultural development can be done by improvement/increase in which of the following?

1. Education
2. Skill building
3. Health facility
4. Employment
5. Migration
6. Income
7. Internet
8. Globalisation

Q. After independence, the policymakers paid a lot of attention on rural development, but rural India could not develop.
What could be the reasons behind it?

1. More focus on industrial growth in cities
2. Migration of people from villages to cities in search of better jobs
3. Lack of resources in the rural India
4. Lack of modernisation

Q. How are cities diffferent from villages in India?

1. Cities have high rate of urbanisation.
2. Cities benefit from globalisation and foreign investment.
3. Cities contribute the least to national income inspite of the majority of the population living there.
4. Cities experience rapid industrialisation.

Q. In which of the following actvities is the majority of the rural Indian population involved?

1. Agriculture
2. Fishing
3. Forestry
4. Water supply

Q. What is the imapact of agricultural development?

1. Shift in employment from industries to agriculture
2. Increase in demand for industrial products.
3. Reduction in urbanisation
4. Increase in income of farmers

Q. The increase in farmers' income will help in the development of the sectors.

1. secondary & tertiary
2. primary & tertiary
3. primary & secondary
4. primary & service

Q. Which of the following could not benefit rural India after independence?

1. Irrigation
2. Globalisation
3. Urbanisation
4. Education