Indian Economic Development

Infrastructure

Question:

How can we increase the effectiveness of health care programmes?

Answer:

Health is a vital public good and a basic human right. All citizens can get better health facilities if public health services are decentralised. Some measures that should be taken are:

  1.  Success in the long-term battle against diseases depends on education and efficient health infra-structure. It is, therefore, critical to create awareness on health and hygiene systems.
  2.  The role of telecom and IT sectors cannot be neglected in this process.
  3.  The effectiveness of health care programmes also rests on primary centres. Efforts should be tnade to make PHCs more efficient.
  4.  Encouragement should be given to private-public partnership. They can effectively ensure
    reliability, quality and affordability of both drugs and medical care. .
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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.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

What are the three basic sources of generating power?

Q 8.

List out the six systems of Indian medicine.

Q 9.

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

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.

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

Q 18.

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

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?