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प्रश्न
S : Strengths
W : Weaknesses
O : Opportunities
T : Threats
SWOT analysis is a tool used to develop effective strategies and plans for the progress and development of organizations, companies, institutions and even individuals. Working in groups, identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for our country. Present your group’s views to the class. Your brief presentation should conclue with a ‘vision statement’ for India-where you want our country to be, say ten years from now and what we should do to achieve it.
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उत्तर
Students to work in groups under the guidance and s upervision of the class teacher. The following information shall enable them to identify and discuss the issues convincingly and appropriately :
Strengths of our country
• consistence in developing stages
• endowed with rich natural resources
• good infrastructure
• industrialized with consistent industrial growth
• self -dependent in all aspects
• steady economic growth
• strategically and geographically located -
• all fields like industry, agriculture, medical, transport. business, defence, communication, information technology etc, progressing as per international standards
• a strong economy equal to that of China or other fast developing countries
• in the footsteps of being a major power in Asia
• youngest population in the world
• knowledge bank
• On the path to become an Asian super power
Weaknesses
• prevalence of corruption
• lack of transparency in administration
• possibility of communal riots due to religious fanaticism, bigotry etc.
• absence of nationalistic feelings among the masses, though utter patriotism during war and humanism during natural calamities
• regionalism, superst it ion. communalism ,lingualism
• terrorism
• lack of accountability
• population, poverty, adulteration
• parochialism in religious matters
• polit ical opportunism and nepot ism
• lack of polit ical willpower to set things right
• bad governance
Opportunities
• stability to be st rengthened more
• strength to be an emerging Asian power
• national unity to be strengthened through music, art, literature, Bollywood etc.
• people hardworking, having the capacity to stand united in the face of threats to the country
• Indian population youngest in the world
• great knowledge and informat ion technology bank
• strong diaspora abroad
• Indians st rategic planners and innovat ive entrepreneurs
Threats
Internal - sabotages through various terror groups
- possibility of communalriots instigated by anti-social elements
- bickerings due to regionalism, lingualism. communalism etc, leading to communal riots
External - neighbour countries due to border disputes and political adventurism
Vision Statement
- to be self -dependent and self -reliant
- 100% literacy
- removal of poverty, ignorance
- getting rid of religious fanaticism, bigotry, religious intolerance and fanaticism
- good transport, all kinds of infrastructure
- exporting of food grains, knowledge, information technology
- food for all, shelter, clothes etc.
- to be equal with developed countries
- to make problem-free country, every Indian to feel proud of
What we should do to achieve it
• ensuring transparency in every work
• eliminat ing corruption
• introducing accountability
• ending nepotism in all fields
• talent recognition and rewarding
• to develop sound work culture
• political interference to end
• identifying problems with an open mind and without bias and solving them
• spreading means to boost and encourage feelings of national integration
• enhancing human values like love, fellow-feeling, honesty, uprightness and righteousnes .
Notes
Note : Students on their own can identify the problems and add their solutions from their own sides as they look at them. They can add to these some more points from their side.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- Why does the poet say, ‘Where the mind is without fear’ ?
- What are the narrow domestic walls being referred to ?
- Why are they ‘narrow ’ ?
- How /when does the ‘clear stream of reason’ lose its way ?
- What is the poet’s appeal ?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate option. Give reason for your choice.
Kalam's childhood was
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
Kalam continues to be proud of the money he had earned during the time of World War - II because
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
'As the new teacher saw it' ( paragraph 6 ) . Which of the following best explains the meaning of this expression?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Kalam's science techer Sivasubramania was something oa a rebel in the sense that
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Father gave Kalam the example of the seagull to
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because .....................................
Complete the following sentence.
The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because .................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because ................ ............................
Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
(Refer to the SWOT analysis of lndia)
After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
Diary Entry:
Suppose you are Kalam/Ramanadha Sastry. You are upset about being made to sit away from your best friend in the class. Write a diary entry expressing your feelings and reactions. In your diary entry you should
a) Describe the incident briefly
b) Say how you and your friend felt about it
c) Decide what you are going to do about it
Things to do:
1. Narrate the incidents described in the memoir in the form of a comic strip
2. Make a short film on the incidents narrated in the memoir
3. Script and stage a skit on the incident that happened in V grade.
Read each of the following sentences from the story and tick the word/phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in
the context in which they are used here.
For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market.
Read each of the following sentences from the story and tick the word/phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
My cousin Samsuddin, was looking for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the slot.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
Why is national integration important for a country like India ?
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
How can we bind the people of the country and create an emotional bond ?
Read the passage carefully and familiarize yourself with the new words used in the passage by working out their meanings. Match the words in column A
with their meanings in column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) foster | (i) the act of accepting someone as a part of a group |
| (b) pernicious | (ii) excessive enthusiasm for an extreme political or religious cause |
| (c) integration | (iii) encourage the development of |
| {d) fanaticism | (iv) agreement and support resulting from shared interests, feelings or opinions |
| (e) solidarity | (v) having a harmful effect. |
