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D Name the following.
1. The percentage of the Indian population that lives in Indian urban centres _____________
2. The most literate state in India _____________
3. The sex ratio in India _____________
4. The literacy rate in India in the early 1950s _____________
5. The three types of human resources that can be found in a country _____________

6. A sector where human resources are unskilled _____________

E Answer the following questions briefly.

1. What are the benefi ts of urban life?
2. Enumerate the qualities that are essential for making human beings a resource.
3. What is the impact of skilled labour on the development of a country?

4. Diff erentiate between the skilled labour and the unskilled labour of a country.
5. Consider in a population where the number of males is 1,800 and the number of females
is 2,500. Find the sex ratio of this population.

F Answer the following questions in detail.

1. Discuss the following characteristics of Indian population.
(a) Age structure
(b) Sex ratio
(c) Rural-urban composition
2. How are the sectors of health and education important for a nation? Discuss with reference
to India.

Let’s Do

Classroom Session
Read the text and analyse.

Rahul is an Indian electrician, plumber or local mechanic. The 24-year-old Ghaziabad resident
tried his hand at several odd jobs before he started training under his father, himself a self-taught
electrician, three years ago. Had it not been for his father, says Rahul, he would have returned to
his native village in Chhattisgarh to his eight-member family. “Today, I managed to earn up to
`15,000 in a month” he says.
The overwhelming majority of Indian workers are like Rahul. According to the latest Economic
Survey, even after 20 years of rapid economic growth, about 85 per cent of Indian workers are
employed in the informal sector. One-third of the jobs the public sector were informal when
counted in 2004 and 2005.
He is unskilled but earning. There is a huge gap between the earnings of an unskilled labourer
and a skilled labourer.

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