Social Studies CASE BASED QUESTIONS(4 Mark)

The average person in Haryana has more income than the average person in Kerala but lags behind in the crucial areas. The reason is money in your pocket cannot buy all the goods and services that you may need to live well. So. income by itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and services that citizens are able to use.
Actually for many of the important things in life the best way, also the cheapest way, is to provide these goods and services collectively. Even now, in many areas. children, particularly girls, are not able to go to high school because the government society has not provided adequate facilities. Kerala has a low Infant Mortality Rate because it has an adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities. Similarly, in some states. PDS functions well. Health and nutritional status of people of such states is certainly likely to be better.
i. Why in some areas children are unable to go to high school? (1)
ii. State the effect of adequate public facilities. (1)
iii. Substantiate the statement with two instances:
Income by itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and
services. (1)

A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or retards the flow. often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. "Dam" refers to the reservoir rather than the structure. Most dams have a section called a spillway or weir over which or through which it is intended that water will flow either intermittently or continuously. Dams are classified according to structure, intended purpose or height. Based on structure and the materials used, dams are classified as timber dams, embankment dams or masonry dams, with several subtypes. According to the height, dams can be categorised as large dams and major dams or alternatively as low dams, medium height dams and high dams
i. What does the word 'Dam' actually refer to? (1)
ii. Mention any one benefit of a Multi-purpose River Valley Project. (1)
iii. How have multi-purpose river valley projects a cause of social movements?
Explain. (2)

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The movement started with middle-class participation in the cities. Thousands of students left government-controlled schools and colleges. headmasters and teachers resigned, and lawyers gave up their legal practices. The council elections were boycotted in most provinces except Madras, where the Justice Party, the party of the non-Brahmans. felt that entering the council was one way of gaining some power-something that usually only Brahmans had access to. The effects of non- cooperation on the economic front were more dramatic. Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires. The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922. its value dropping from 102 crore to ₹ 57 crore. In many places, merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade. As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, the production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.
i. Explain the meaning of picketing liquor shop.(1)
ii. When did the Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement begin? (1)
iii. Why did the movement in the cities gradually slow down? (2)