English Medium इयत्ता ९ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Manoj went to a college to apply for admission into an MBA course. The clerk refused to take his application and said “You, the son of a sweeper, wish to be a manager! Has anyone done this job in your community? Go to the municipality office and apply for a sweeper’s position”. Which of Manoj’s fundamental rights are being violated in this instance? Spell these out in a letter from Manoj to the district collector.

When Madhurima went to the property registration office, the Registrar told her. "You can’t write your name as Madhurima Banerjee d/o Α. K. Banerjee. You are married, so you must give your husband’s name. Your husband’s surname is Rao. So your name should be changed to Madhurima Rao." She did not agree. She said "If my husband’s name has not changed after marriage, why should mine?" In your opinion who is right in this dispute? And why?

Can you suggest some measures in the education system to mitigate the problem of the educated unemployed?

Draw a web interconnecting different rights discussed in this chapter. For example right to freedom of movement is connected to the freedom of occupation. One reason for this is that freedom of movement enables a person to go to place of work within one’s village or city or to another village, city or state. Similarly this right can be used for pilgrimage, connected with freedom to follow one’s religion. Draw a circle for each right and mark arrows that show connection between or among different rights. For each arrow, give an example that shows the linkage.

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Buffer stock

Identify the following with the help of map reading.

The countries constituting the Indian subcontinent.

Identify the following with the help of map reading.

The strait separating Sri Lanka from India.

Of all the institutions that we have studied in this chapter, name the one that exercises the powers on each of the following matters.

Implements the decision to provide relief for the victims of an earthquake.

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

Members of the Constituent Assembly of India held the same views on all provisions of the Constitution.

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

A country that has a constitution must be a democracy. dC

Here are some false statements. Identify the mistake in each case and rewrite these correctly based on what you have read in this chapter.

The constitution cannot be amended because it is the supreme law of a country.

Write a few lines to show what you know about:

Stalin’s collectivisation programme

Explain what role women had in Nazi society. Return to Chapter 1 on the French Revolution. Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the role of women in the two periods.

Between 1880 and 1920, forest cover in the Indian subcontinent declined by 9.7 million hectares, from 108.6 million hectares to 98.9 million hectares. Discuss the role of the following factors in this decline:

Adivasis and other peasant users

Answer the following question briefly.

Which is the largest river basin in India?