Class 11 Economics - Indian Economic Development - Chapter Infrastructure NCERT Solutions | What is a ‘global burden of diseas

Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.

Discuss the main drawbacks of our health care system.

What are the various non-commercial sources of energy?

What is the significance of ‘energy’? Differentiate between commercial and non-commercial sources of energy.

How do infrastructure facilities boost production?

What is the state of rural infrastructure in India?

Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years to control diseases.

How has women’s health become a matter of great concern?

Explain the two categories into which infrastructure is divided. How are both interdependent?

How are the rates of consumption of energy and economic growth connected?

What was the focus of the economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India? What were the impacts of these policies?

What are the two major sources of human capital in a country?

What do you mean by rural development? Bring out the key issues in rural development.

Define a plan?

Who is a worker?

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?

Critically evaluate the role of the rural banking system in the process of rural development in India.

Suppose you are a resident of a village, suggest a few measures to tackle the problem of poverty.

How can creation of income earning assets address the problem of poverty?

Explain the supply-demand reversal of environmental resources.

What is organic farming and how does it promote sustainable development?

 What was the two-fold motive behind the systematic de-industrialisation affected by the British in pre-independent India?

Do you think the navaratna policy of the government helps in improving the performance of public sector undertakings in India? How?

Explain the role of micro-credit in meeting credit requirements of the poor.

What is marketable surplus?

‘There is a downward trend in inequality world-wide with a rise in the average education levels’. Comment.