1.What does modernisation mean to the developing and underdeveloped countries?
Ans:Modernisation was also associated with the ideas of growth, material progress and scientific rationality.
2.Explain the land reforms carried out in India after independence.
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3.Explain the effects of Green Revolution.
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Following are the effects of Green Revolution:
4.What was the Green Revolution? Mention two positive and two negative consequences of the Green Revolution.
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Due to prevailing food-crisis, the country was dependent on food aid, mainly from the United
States. The United States, in turn, pushed India to change its economic policies. The government
adopted a new strategy for agriculture in order to ensure food sufficiency. The government
offered high-yielding variety seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and better irrigation at highly
subsidised prices. The government also gave a guarantee to buy the produce of the farmers
at a given price. This was the beginning of what was called the ‘green revolution’.
Positive Consequences:
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5.What was the major thrust of the First Five Year Plan? In which ways did the Second Plan differ from the first one?
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Following was the major thrust of First Five Year Plan:
6.Explain protest against POSCO Plant by Orissa Villagers?
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7.In politics what is Left and what is Right ?
Ans: These terms characterise the position of the concerned groups or parties regarding social change and role of the state in effecting economic redistribution.
8.What is Bombay Plan.What is the main objective of Bombay Plan.
Ans: A section of the big industrialists got together in 1944 and drafted a joint proposal for setting up a planned economy in the country. It was called the Bombay Plan. The main objective of Bombay Plan was that the state takes major initiatives in industrial and other economic investments.
9. What is operation flood?
Ans: In 1970 the rural development programme called Operation Flood was started. Operation Flood organised cooperatives of milk producers into a nationwide milk grid, with the purpose of increasing milk production, bringing the producer and consumer closer by eliminating middlemen, and assuring the producers a regular income throughout the year. Operation Flood was, however, not just a dairy programme. It saw dairying as a path to development, for generating employment and income for rural households and alleviating poverty.
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10.What is White Revolution?
Ans: Whilte revolution is the name given to the successful history of cooperative dairy farming
in India.
Verghese Kurien, nicknamed the "Milkman of India", played a crucial role in the story of
Gujarat Cooperative Milk and Marketing Federation Ltd that launched Amul. Amul is a dairy
cooperative movement joined by about 2 and half million milk producers in Gujarat. The Amul
pattern became a uniquely appropriate model for rural development and poverty alleviation
spurring what has come to be known as the White Revolution.