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Published on: 16/08/2019
People as Resource
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1.
Disguised unemployment is mostly present in which of the following fields:
Transport
Communication
Industries
Farming
2.
'Disguised unemployment' could be traced in which sector?
Mining Activity
Service Sector
Agriculture
Social Forestry
3.
The tenth plan endeavours to increase enrolment in higher education upto:
8%
9%
10%
9.5%
4.
Catching fish is a
Primary activity
Secondary activity
Tertiary activity
Trade activity
5.
How was Japan become a Developed country?
By the investment in Physical Resources
By the investment in Capital Resources
By the investment in Human Resouces
All the above
6.
Excess population is considered as a burden for an economy, but they can become human capital if there is an investment made in the form of
health and capital
education,training and medical care
skill and productive knowledge
all of the above
7.
Discuss employment scenario in India.
8.
What is the difference between working condition of educated and uneducated women?Mention any three of them.
9.
Why do educated parents invest more heavily on their children's education?Give three reasons.
10.
"Investment in human resource is the need for the hour".Explain.
11.
What is meant by unemployment?How many types of unemployment is there?
12.
Name the factors on which quality of populations depends?
13.
Why is human resource important for development?Explain.
14.
What is human capital?
15.
When there is investment made in the form of education, training and medical care, the population becomes?
16.
Why are women employed in low paid work?
17.
What part does health play in individual's working life?
18.
What is the role of education in human capital information?
19.
What do you understand by 'people as a resource'?
20.
Equal economic opportunities are denied to women.
21.
It is the case of unemployment, if able bodied persons between the age group of 15-59 willing to work at the prevailing rates do not find a job.
22.
Our sex ratio at present is 933 females for every 1000 males.
23.
Education and health make people an asset.
1.
(d)
Farming
2.
(c)
Agriculture
3.
(d)
9.5%
4.
(a)
Primary activity
5.
(c)
By the investment in Human Resouces
6.
(d)
all of the above
7.
In case of India, unemployment scenario is as below.
(a) Statistically, the unemployment rate is low in India.
(b) A large number of people represented with low income and productivity are counted as employed.They appear to work throughout the year but in terms of their potential and income, it is not adequate for them.
(c) Poor people cannot afford to sit idle.They tend to engage in any activity irrespective of its earning potential.
(d) The employment structre is chracterised by self-employment in the primary sector.
The whole family contributes in the field even though not everybody is really needed.
8.
(a) (i) Educated women are aware of their rights and responsibilities which provides them an equal opportunity to grow and prosper with their male co-workers.
(ii) Uneducated women are not aware of their rights and are exploited by the employer in terms of low wages and bad working conditions.
(b) (i) Educated women generally earn more due to their education.They may be professors, doctors, teachers, etc.
(ii) Uneducated women are generally skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled workers if they work.
(c) Educated women are more presentable to demonstrate their job skills which is generally not available in uneducated women.
9.
The following are the reasons for educated parents to invest more heavily on their children's education:
1. Educated parents themselves have been the benefits of education in terms of better life and social status.This drives them to make their children the same.
2.They understand that education is the best form of society security for their children as children can always earn their livelihood with higher education.
3.They look after their children's needs for education at school and good health.
10.
The statement is correct that investment in human resource is the need of the hour.India has a vast population and it can be used for economic growth if it can contribute to the country's GDP.The potential to contribute to the GDP exists only when the population is able to work in the process of production of goods and services in the economy.A good level of education and healthy body is required for this.Government should invest in the education and health initiatives which strengthen the capability of the human resources to gainfully work.Hence, investment in human resource will return huge return and also bring development to the economy.
11.
Unemployment is a situation in which is willing to work at prevailing wages, but does not get any work.
In India, we have employment in rural and urban areas:
Rural employment
(i) Disguised unemployment
(ii) Seasonal unemployment
Urban unemployment
(i) Educated unemployment
(ii) Technical unemployment
12.
The quality of population depends upon:
(i) Literacy Rate
(ii) Health of a person
(iii) Life expectancy of a person
(iv) Skill formation.
13.
Human resources are important for development as they contribute to the growth of the economy by taking up productive activities in the form of business, profession and employment.They also create demand in the economy which helps industry to grow and prosper.A well educated, healthy and disciplined human resource is more of an an asset for the economy than a liability.
14.
When the existing human resouces is developed through education, health and welfare measures, it becomes human capital or can be called human capital formation.Investment in human capital through education, training, medical c are yields a return just like investment in physical capital.More educated and better trained people yield higher return due to higher productivity of educated and healthier people.
15.
Population becomes human capital when there is investment made in the term of education, training and medical care.Human capital is stock of skill and productive knowledge embodied in them.
16.
Women are paid low as compared to men.
1. The major reason for this is that women have meagre education and low skill formation.
2. Also,in unorganised sector there is a general bias towards women workers who are not highly educated and skilled.
3. Physical and emotional weakness, non-suitability for harzardous work and social restrictions also ass up to the reason that women are employed in low paid work.
17.
Health plays crucial part in individual's working life:
1.It helps a person to fight illness.
2.It creates well being of human life.
3.It adds to the quality of life of an individual.
4.It adds value to the human resources of the country.
18.
(i) Importance of Education. Human resource refers to the population of a country and the efficiency,productivity ,skill and far sightedness of its inhabitants.
(ii) Education is an important factor for the development of human resource.
(iii) Education-general, technical and medical improves the level of understanding.
(iv) It also adds to the capacity of human stock to produce more. It increases the mental efficiency of the people.
(v) Education can play an effective role in raising production from its low level.General and technical education develops efficiency among the labourers to use highly advanced techniques of production for the optimum use of the existing resources.
(vi) Education builds healthy human capital to handle the pressure of challenging jobs.
19.
1. The people of the country are its valuable resources, if they are healthy, educated and skilled.No economic activity is possible without human resource.It works as labour,management and entrepreneur in all the economic activities and as such it is indispensable factor of production.
2. It makes use pf land and capital for productive activities in the economy.
20.
(a)
21.
(a)
22.
(a)
23.
(a)
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