How government organisations facilitate the functioning of schools and hospitals in India?
The Indian government regulates education and health sectors through the following organisations:
i. NCERT (National Council of Education Research and Training): The organisation is responsible for designing the textbooks up to standard 12th.
ii. UGC (University Grants Commission): This organisation is the prime funding authority for university education. It also enforces rules and regulation regarding higher education.
iii. AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education): It enforces rules and regulations regarding technical engineering education in the country.
iv. ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research): This organisation formulates the rules and regulations relating to education and research in health sector.
v. National Institute of Health and Family Welfare: This organisation is responsible for promotion of health and family welfare programmes.
Discuss the need for promoting women’s education in India.
Trace the relationship between human capital and economic growth.
Discuss the following as a source of human capital formation
(i) Health infrastructure
(ii) Expenditure on migration.
‘There is a downward trend in inequality world-wide with a rise in the average education levels’. Comment.
What are the main problems of human capital formation in India?
Education is considered to be an important input for the development of a nation. How?
How is human development a broader term as compared to human capital?
What factors contribute to human capital formation?
Argue in favour of the need for different forms of government intervention in education and health sectors.
What are the indicators of educational achievement in a country?
What was the focus of the economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India? What were the impacts of these policies?
What do you mean by rural development? Bring out the key issues in rural development.
Define a plan?
Who is a worker?
Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.
What is meant by environment?
Why are regional and economic groupings formed?
Why were reforms introduced in India?
Why calorie-based norm is not adequate to identify the poor?
Name some notable economists who estimated India’s per capita income during the colonial period?
Indicate the volume and direction of trade at the time of independence.
What do you mean by transmission and distribution losses? How can they be reduced?
Does modernisation as a planning objective create contradiction in the light of employment generation? Explain.
Describe the path of developmental initiatives taken by Pakistan for its economic development.
Explain how import substitution can protect domestic industry.
Distinguish between ‘Green Revolution’ and ‘Golden Revolution’.
Why and how was the private sector regulated under the IPR 1956?
Critically evaluate the role of the rural banking system in the process of rural development in India.
Explain the statement that the green revolution enabled the government to procure sufficient food grains to build its stocks that could be used during times of shortage.
What is sustainable development?