NCERT solutions for Environmental Studies - Looking Around [English] Class 5 chapter 16 - Who will do this Work? [Latest edition]

Have you seen such scenes around you?

Have you ever thought of people who do this work? What is our responsibility to keep the place clean?

Why do you think people need to do this kind of work?

Talk with people who do the cleaning job around your house and school.

• Since when have they been doing this work?

Talk with people who do the cleaning job around your house and school.

• How much have they studied?

Talk with people who do the cleaning job around your house and school.

• Have they tried to look for some other work?

Talk with people who do the cleaning job around your house and school.

• Did the elders in their family also do this work?

Talk with people who do the cleaning job around your house and school.

• What kind of difficulties do they face in doing this work?

What are the different kinds of work being done in this drawing? List any five of these.

If you were asked to do any five jobs shown in this picture, which would you choose? Why?

Which five jobs would you not choose? Why?

What kinds of work or jobs do people not want to do? Why?

So, who does this kind of work? Why do people do this kind of work that others do not want to do?

What would happen if nobody did this work? If nobody cleared the garbage lying outside your school or your house for one week, then what would happen?

Think of some ways (machines, or other things) so that people would not have to do the work they don't like to do. Draw a picture of what you thought.

Why did Gandhiji and his team start doing the job of cleaning? What do you think about this?

Do you know any such people in your area who try to help others in solving their problems? Find out and discuss in the class.

Guests at Gandhiji’s Ashram had to learn this work also. If you were one of these guests, what would you do?

What are the toilet arrangements in your house? Where is the toilet? Inside the house, or outside? Who cleans the toilet?

How did the man who was returning from the toilet behave with Mahadevbhai? Why did he behave like this?

How do people generally behave with those people who clean toilets and drains? Write.

Narayan and Gandhiji discussed all these many years ago. Have things changed now?

Who does the cleaning in your school? What all has to be cleaned?

Do all children as your help in this? If yes, how?

If all do not help, why not?

Do all children do all kinds of work?

Do they sometimes have to miss classes to do this work?

Do the girls and boys do the same kinds of work?

What all work do you do at home?

Is the work done by boys and girls, men and women the same?

Would you like to bring some change? What kind?

Do people look at different kinds of work in the same way? If not, why is this so? Why is it important to bring change?

Gandhiji used to say that every person should do every kind of work. What do you feel about this? If everyone followed this, what are the things that would change? What are some changes that will happen in your own house?