Question:
How has the consumption pattern of energy changed over the years?
Answer:
Pattern of energy consumption in India is as follows:
- In India, different sources of energy are converted into a common unit ‘million tonne of oil equivalent’ (MTOE).
- At present, commercial energy consumption is 65 per cent of total energy consumed in India.
- Goal has the largest share of 55 per cent, followed by oil at 31 per cent, natural gas at 11 per cent and hydro energy at 3 per cent.
- Non-commercial energy sources account for over 30 per cent of the total energy consumption.
- There is import dependence on crude and petroleum products, which is likely to grow to more than 100 per cent in the near future.
- Atomic energy is an important source of electric power. At present nuclear/atomic energy accounts for only 2.4 per cent of total primary energy consumption.
Infrastructure
Q 1.
What are the various non-commercial sources of energy?
Q 2.
Discuss the main drawbacks of our health care system.
Q 3.
How has women’s health become a matter of great concern?
Q 4.
Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years to control diseases.
Q 5.
What is the significance of ‘energy’? Differentiate between commercial and non-commercial sources of energy.
Q 6.
How has the consumption pattern of energy changed over the years?
Q 7.
What are the three basic sources of generating power?
Q 8.
What do you mean by transmission and distribution losses? How can they be reduced?
Q 9.
List out the six systems of Indian medicine.
Q 10.
How can we increase the effectiveness of health care programmes?
Q 11.
How are the rates of consumption of energy and economic growth connected?
Q 12.
What problems are being faced by the power sector in India?
Q 13.
Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.
Q 14.
Justify that energy crisis can be overcome with the use of renewable sources of energy.
Q 15.
What is the state of rural infrastructure in India?
Q 16.
What are the main characteristics of health of the people of our country?
Q 17.
Discuss the reforms which have been initiated recently to meet the energy crisis in India.
Q 18.
Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.
Q 19.
What is a ‘global burden of disease’?
Q 20.
How do infrastructure facilities boost production?
Q 21.
Explain the two categories into which infrastructure is divided. How are both interdependent?
