Civics

Urban Administration

Question:

What did children want to know?

Answer:

They wanted to know whom did the lights on the streets belong to.

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Urban Administration

Q 1.

What did children want to know?

Q 2.

What had children done to the street light?

Q 3.

What types of taxes people have to pay?

Q 4.

Whose duty is it to replace the streetlights?

Q 5.

How are complicated decisions taken? Explain with examples. [V. Imp.]

Q 6.

How does the Municipal Corporation earn the money to do its work?

Q 7.

What did the Commissioner advise Gangabai?

Q 8.

Who is a Municipal Councillor?

Q 9.

List four ways in which the work of the Municipal Corporation affects the life of a city-dweller.

Q 10.

Name two departments of the Municipal Corporation. [Imp.]

Q 11.

How can common people keep their streets clean?

Q 12.

Who takes decisions like where a park or a new hospital should go?

Q 13.

What is a tax?

Q 14.

Why did the children go to Yasmin Khala's house?

Q 15.

Explain the Junctions of the Ward Councillor and the Administrative staff.

Q 16.

What did Gangabai do and why?

Q 17.

Who was Yasmin Khala?

Q 18.

What is the difference between the ward Commissioner and the ward Councillors?[V. Imp.]

Q 19.

State whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F).

(i) Gangabai was a timid lady.
(ii) Yasmin Khala was a retired judge.
(iii) Pune, being a big city, has a Municipal Corporation.
(iv) Larger houses have to pay less taxes.
(v) The Commissioner and the administrative staff implement the decisions taken by the Councillor's Committees and the councillors.

Q 20.

Write a short note on the topic Sub-contracting'.

Q 21.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence:

(i)Property taxes form only ……………. percent of the money that a Municipal  Corporation earns.
(ii)     Collecting garbage is quite a………… job.
(iii) The kabadi wallah plays a major role in ……………….  household plastic and paper.
(iv)     The Ward Councillor is elected by the people of his ………………
(v) Gangabai rushed to the house of………………