Unit 3 Ch 2 : Federalism — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

Which are the two experimental projects of geothermal energy in India?

How does the government react to the demands of different groups of a country?

Read the passage on the left and answer the questions.
Ford Motors, an American company, is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers with production spread over 26 countries of the world. Ford Motors came to India in 1995 and spent Rs. 1700 crore to set up a large plant near Chennai. This was done in collaboration with Mahindra and Mahindra, a major Indian manufacturer of jeeps and trucks. By the year 2004, Ford Motors was selling 27, 000 cars in the Indian markets, while 24,000 cars were exported from India to South Africa, Mexico and Brazil. The company wants to develop Ford India as a component supplying base for its other plants across the globe.
Would you say Ford Motors is a MNC? Why?

Write a note to explain the effects of the following:
The death of men of working-age in Europe because of the World War.

Write any three changes in Indian agriculture after the Green Revolution.

Why was the industrial growth slow till the First World War?

A worker in an urban area, who was working in a small factory, was not paid his wages properly, he was forced to work extra hours under poor working conditions, there was no job security, recently he lost his job and was found selling electrical items in a pushcart.
Analyze the role of the government in protecting the workers working in an Unorganized sector.

Why do different persons have different notions of development. Explain.

Is it true that democracies are not very successful in reducing economic inequalities?

What did cartoons and caricatures suggest?