Discuss the need for promoting women’s education in India.
The access to education has always been lopsided towards India's male population. Women have always been neglected in the field of education. The weaker and lower status of women in India can be attributed to the negligence of their education. Women have always been considered as a liability for a family. The roots of such thoughts are deep rooted in the traditional beliefs and customs. The role of women in the economic and social spheres cannot be neglected in order to achieve overall economic development and growth. With the rise in the educational levels and modernisation, people have realised the importance of female education. The need for female education should be highlighted in India in order to empower women. The following are the important points that advocate in favour of promoting women education:
i. Women education is essential for improving their economic independence and economic feasibility.
ii. Women education is important in order to raise the social and moral status of women.
iii. It plays a significant role in maintaining favorable fertility rate.
iv. Health care of women and children can be enhanced with education imparted to women.
v. An educated women can infuse good moral values and can impart quality education to her children.
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?
Bring out the need for on-the-job-training for a person.
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?
Mention the salient demographic indicators of China, Pakistan and India.
Why, despite the implementation of the green revolution, 65 percent of our population continued to be engaged in the agriculture sector till 1990?
The following table shows the population and worker population ratio for India in 1999-2000. Can you estimate the workforce (urban and total) for India?
Region | Estimates of Population (in crores) |
Worker Population Ratio |
Estimated No. of Workers (in crores) |
Rural Uraban Total |
71.88 28.52 100.40 |
41.9 33.7 39.5 |
71.88/100 x 41.9 = 30.12 ? ? |
Explain the supply-demand reversal of environmental resources.
Why calorie-based norm is not adequate to identify the poor?
Justify that energy crisis can be overcome with the use of renewable sources of energy.
Name some modern industries which were in operation in our country at the time of independence?
What was the two-fold motive behind the systematic de-industrialisation affected by the British in pre-independent India?
What are the main characteristics of health of the people of our country?
What is marketable surplus?