Given below are three items. Each item describes a situation and is followed by four possible responses. Indicate the response you find most appropriate. Choose only one response for each item. The responses will be evaluated based on the appropriateness for the given situation. Please attempt all the items. There is no penalty for wrong answer for these items.
Q80. Residents of Chintalur village want to form self-help groups (SHG) for organizing joint micro enterprises. However, Chintalur has four distinct social groups. After some discussion, the villagers want to form four separate SHGs, one each for the social groups and covering a specific economic activity. They approach your office with the proposal. How would you react?
Given below are three items. Each item describes a situation and is followed by four possible responses. Indicate the response you find most appropriate. Choose only one response for each item. The responses will be evaluated based on the appropriateness for the given situation. Please attempt all the items. There is no penalty for wrong answer for these items.
Q80. Residents of Chintalur village want to form self-help groups (SHG) for organizing joint micro enterprises. However, Chintalur has four distinct social groups. After some discussion, the villagers want to form four separate SHGs, one each for the social groups and covering a specific economic activity. They approach your office with the proposal. How would you react?
The correct option is D (d) Agree to four SHGs but insist that membership should be based on a member's interest in and skill for the economic activity and not on his social affiliation.
We are assuming that there is no embargo in the Government scheme on formation of more than one SHG from the same village.
The substance of the demand is that four main social groups want to form their respective SHGs. It is common in Indian situation that social groups may be organized or formed on the basis of caste or religious identity. Not that there is any impropriety if people belonging to the same caste come forward to collaborate in the same type of economic activity because that freedom is available and fundamentally sound. However, the social formations should not be allowed to become exclusionary in the sense that if for certain type of activity, a group is formed the membership should not be restricted to individuals with specific social identity. Moreover, if suppose the majority of the population: doing that activity is from a particular social group, then that group should not prevent another person (not belonging to their group but having interest in the activity) from joining the SHG doing that activity. Social group and interest in particular type of activity should be both considered in formation of SHGs. Hence, (d) is the correct answer choice.
(d) Agree to four SHGs but insist that membership should be based on a member's interest in and skill for the economic activity and not on his social affiliation.
We are assuming that there is no embargo in the Government scheme on formation of more than one SHG from the same village.
The substance of the demand is that four main social groups want to form their respective SHGs. It is common in Indian situation that social groups may be organized or formed on the basis of caste or religious identity. Not that there is any impropriety if people belonging to the same caste come forward to collaborate in the same type of economic activity because that freedom is available and fundamentally sound. However, the social formations should not be allowed to become exclusionary in the sense that if for certain type of activity, a group is formed the membership should not be restricted to individuals with specific social identity. Moreover, if suppose the majority of the population: doing that activity is from a particular social group, then that group should not prevent another person (not belonging to their group but having interest in the activity) from joining the SHG doing that activity. Social group and interest in particular type of activity should be both considered in formation of SHGs. Hence, (d) is the correct answer choice.
