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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 options. Give reason for your choices.
Kalam owes his honesty and self - discipline to his
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 children Kalam and his friends did not have any
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.
Lakshmana Sastry made the newly appointed teacher realize 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.
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.
The science teacher's wife's behaviour during Kalam's second visit to their home showed that
Complete the following sentence.
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because ……………....
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam’s second visit to his science teacher’s house surprised him because ……………
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 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.
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.
Sivasubramania Iyer was not perturbed, nor did he get angry with his wife
If you were in the selection committee for the National Integration Award who would you choose and why?
Design a stamp in honour of your hero that captures the important moment of his contribution. You could create a fictional hero also.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
What are the aims of national integration ?
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
What are the forces that challenge national integration ?
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
What are the steps that we should take to strengthen the nation and its unity ?
