Indian Economic Development

Infrastructure

Question:

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

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Gender Bias—Poor Health of Women:

  1.  There is growing incidence of female foeticide in the country. Close to 3,00,000 girls under the age of 15 are not only married but have already borne children at least once.
  2.  More than 50 per cent of married women between the age group of 15 and 49 suffer from anaemia caused by iron deficiency. It has contributed to 19 per cent of maternal deaths.
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Infrastructure

Q 1.

What are the various non-commercial sources of energy?

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Q 2.

Discuss the main drawbacks of our health care system.

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Q 3.

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

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Q 4.

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

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Q 5.

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

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Q 6.

How has the consumption pattern of energy changed over the years?

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Q 7.

What are the three basic sources of generating power?

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Q 8.

What do you mean by transmission and distribution losses? How can they be reduced?

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Q 9.

List out the six systems of Indian medicine.

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Q 10.

How can we increase the effectiveness of health care programmes?

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Q 11.

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

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Q 12.

What problems are being faced by the power sector in India?

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Q 13.

Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.

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Q 14.

Justify that energy crisis can be overcome with the use of renewable sources of energy.

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Q 15.

What is the state of rural infrastructure in India?

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Q 16.

What are the main characteristics of health of the people of our country?

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Q 17.

Discuss the reforms which have been initiated recently to meet the energy crisis in India.

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Q 18.

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

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Q 19.

What is a ‘global burden of disease’?

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Q 20.

How do infrastructure facilities boost production?

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Q 21.

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

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