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1.
What can the government do to ensure that laws are fully implemented?
2.
Write a paragraph on the various roles of the government that you have read about in this unit.
3.
What are the advantages to foreign companies in setting up production in India?
4.
Find out: Who sets the minimum wages?
5.
Why do we need a law on minimum wages?
6.
Who owns the Union Carbide plant at present?
United Chemical
Dow Chemical
Indian government
None of the above
7.
Right to a healthy environment is intrinsic to the Fundamental Right of
Right to Equality
Right against Exploitation
Right to Life
Right to Freedom
8.
What did the Union Carbide's Bhopal plant produce?
Pesticides
Fertilisers
Both (a) and (b)
Neither (a) nor (b)
9.
When did the government amend the 'Child Labour Prevention Act'?
December, 2001
January, 2004
October, 2006
July, 2007
10.
Who ensures that the laws are implemented?
The people
Private companies
The government
None of the above
11.
Why do foreign companies come to India?
12.
Compare and contrast UC's safety systems in Bhopal with that of its other plant in the USA.
13.
Laws ensure that the relations between work consumers and producers are not __________________
14.
Emissions from vehicles are a major cause of ............ pollution
15.
There is a law on _____________________to ensure that workers are not underpaid.
16.
Markets deny workers their rights in the drive for__________________
17.
The government makes_______________to protect people from exploitation.
18.
UC chairman Anderson has been prosecuted.
19.
The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy finally got justice.
20.
Accidents are rare in construction sites.
21.
Within three days of the Bhopal Gas Tradegy more than 8,000 people were dead.
22.
The minimum wages are revised upwards even few years
23.
Subhash Kumar vs State of Bihar case
24.
Bhopal gas tragedy
25.
Subhash Kumar vs State of Bihar case
26.
Bhopal gas tragedy
27.
Private companies
28.
Why were the textile mills in Ahmedabad closed down during the 1980s and 1990s?
29.
Name the South Asian countries which have become centres for industries producing pesticides, asbestos or processing zinc and lead.
30.
The Minimum Wages Act specifies that wages should not be below specified minimum limit.
31.
What does the Fundamental Right "Right against Exploitation" state?
32.
What is the full form of CNG?
1.
The government can ensure laws are fully implemented by conducting surprise raids and checks the workplace. It can, for instance, ensure that every worker gets fair wages by regularly inspecting work sites and punish those who violate the law.
2.
various roles of the government are as follows:
1. Provide public facilities for a decent standard of living of all citizens.
2. Make laws for the protection of people from exploitation by the market.
3. Enforce laws to ensure their proper implementation and punish those who flout the rules/disobey the laws.
3.
Following are the advantages to foreign companies in setting up production in India:
(i) Cheap labour
(ii) Fewer additional expenses (housing facilities etc.)
(iii) No strict safety standards to follow
4.
The Labour Ministry sets the minimum wages.
5.
We need a law on minimum wages to ensure that workers are duly paid and not exploited by their employers.
6.
(b)
Dow Chemical
7.
(c)
Right to Life
8.
(a)
Pesticides
9.
(c)
October, 2006
10.
(c)
The government
11.
Privately-owned companies are always aiming for profit maximization. Foreign companies also come to India with the same motive. Availability of cheap labour is the prime attraction. Wages that the companies have to pay to workers, say in the USA, are far higher than what they pay to workers in poorer countries like India. Companies can get longer hours of work for lower pay.
Additional expenses like housing for workers are also fewer. Cost cutting can also be done by other more dangerous means because of lax safety rules in India. Due to high population and rampant unemployment, employers exploit workers because of their vulnerable positions and there is always the option to replace one employee with another.
12.
At its West Virginia plant in the USA, the Union Carbide had put in place computerised warning and monitoring systems. Whereas the UC plant in Bhopal relied on manual guages and the human senses to detect gas leaks. The company cut its costs by seriously compromising on safety in the Bhopal plant. Every safety device was either malfunctioning or in short supply.
Between 1980 and 1984, the work crew for the MIC plant was cut in half from 12 to 6 workers. The period of safety training for workers was brought down from 6 months to 15 days and the post of night-shift worker for the MIC plant was abolished.
13.
( )
exploitative
14.
( )
air
15.
( )
minimum wage
16.
( )
profits
17.
( )
laws
18.
(b)
19.
(b)
20.
(b)
21.
(a)
22.
(a)
23.
( )
1991
24.
( )
1984
25.
( )
1991
26.
( )
1984
27.
( )
Profit- motive
28.
( )
The textile mills in Ahmedabad were closed down because they were facing stiff competition from power looms during the 1980s and 1990s.
29.
( )
India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are three South Asian countries which have become centres for industries producing these items
30.
( )
The Bhopal gas tragedy (1984) brought the issue of environment to the forefront in India
31.
( )
The Fundamental Right "Right against Exploitation" says that no one can be forced to work for low wages or under bondage
32.
( )
The full form of CNG is Compressed Natural Gas.
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