What is Government? Question Answers: NCERT Class 6 Social Science - Social and Political Life

1. Central government
2. State government
3. Central government
4. Local government
5. Local government
6. State government
7. Central government

Government is an organization which takes decisions and make laws for the welfare of the people. It takes action on many social issues, for example: it has several programs to help the poor and make the things done. The government also has a job of protecting the boundaries of the country and maintaining peaceful relation with other countries. Courts are also part of the government. The government works at three levels; which is local, state and central. The local level government works in villages, towns or localities. The state government works at the state level. The central or National government works for the entire country.
Hence, the five ways in which government affects our daily life are:
1. It helps in running postal and railway services; and helps in reduction and fixing prices of essential commodities.
2. In case of natural calamities, it helps the affected people and the government mainly organizes aid and assistance for the affected ones.
3. In case of any dispute or someone has committed a crime, you will find that person in a court.
4. It helps in building roads and schools. It supplies electricity and water in our house, schools, hospitals, offices and in other working places too.
5. It ensures that all citizens have enough to eat and it provides good health services.

The government needs to make rules for everyone in the form of laws:
1. To maintain peace in society.
2. Law establishes justice.
3. Law makes it compulsory for the people to obey it.
4. So that everyone can feel secure in the country.
5. Everyone will be given equal rights.
6. It prevents the misuse of their power.
7. It helps the people to lead a normal life.
8. It helps in proper functioning of government.

The two essential features of democratic government are:

1. The people have power to elect their leaders, so the government is ruled by the people. The leaders or representatives meet and make decisions for the entire population.
2. People ruled themselves by participating in the making of these rules. The government is answerable. The people can also replace the government after 5        years.

The movement for voting rights to the woman was called the suffrage movement. All over Europe and U.S.A women and the poor ones have had to fight for participation in the government. Women struggle to vote strengthened during the First World War. During the world war, many people were away fighting, and because of this women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men’s work. Many women begin organizing and managing different kinds of work. When people saw this they realized that they had created so many unfair stereotypes. So, women began to be seen equally capable. American women got right to vote in year 1920 while women in U.K got right to vote in 1928.

I agree to Gandhiji’s belief that every adult in India should be given equal rights to vote because:
1. India is a democratic country and one of the most essential feature of democracy is to ensure equality to all citizens of the country.
2. If literacy is the reason then the government should make sure that it should provide literacy to all which is one of the rights of all citizens.
3. We should honor the dignity of every person, whether rich or poor, high caste or good social status etc.
4. No one should be discriminate on the basis of their social status and these rules are written in our constitution.
5. A person do not become poor because of his choice but because of circumstances. Dishonesty can develop in any person whether he is rich or poor and every adult develops a certain level of maturity which gives him enough wisdom to think about the government.