Class X

  Chapter: People As Resource Answer the following questions Q. Define Human capital and human capital formation. Name any two sources of human capital formation. Answer:  Human capital  - When investment is made in the form of education, training and medical care, the quality of population improves and becomes a great asset. It is known as human capital. Human capital formation  - When the investment is made in the existing human resource for further development by becoming more educated and healthy is termed as human capital formation. The two sources of human capital formation are education and health. Q. Mention three sectors of economic activities with examples. Answer: The three sectors of economic activities are: 1. Primary sector- It produces goods by exploiting natural resources. It includes agriculture, forestry, mining, animal husbandry and fishing. 2. Secondary sector. It converts all raw material into finished goods such as manufacturing industries and c...

 Nationalism in India  Important Questions and Answers Q.) Why did Mahatma Gandhi organize Satyagraha in the Kheda district of Gujarat in 1917? Ans. The peasants of the Kheda district of Gujarat were affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic. So, they could not pay the revenue and were demanding relaxation in revenue collection. Q.) How was the social and political situation of India affected by the First World War? Explain. Or, How did the First World War help in the growth of the nationalist movement in India? Ans.  The war created a new economic and political situation. It led to an increase in defense expenditure which was financed by war loans and increasing taxes (customs duties were raised and income tax introduced). The war led to a price rise and hardship for common people. War led to the forced recruitment of people. Acute shortage of food led to famine and misery. This was accompanied by an influenza epidemic. Millions of people perished as a result of fam...

  CLASS: IX Poem 1 - The Road Not taken                                                                         B Poet – Robert Frost   Introduction   In the poem - ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road symbolizes our life. The poet says that the path that we don’t choose in our life is ‘the road not taken’. He describes his feelings about that choice that he had left in the past. The path which we have chosen, decides our future, our destination. The important message that the poet wants to give is that the choice that we make has an impact on our future and if we make a wrong choice, we regret it but cannot go back on it. So, we must...