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Let’s Work these out (Page No. 7)
1. Look at the picture. What should be the developmental goals for such an area?

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Ans. (i) Availability of loans for making pucca houses with own toilets.
(ii) Ownership of land on which they live.
(iii) Availability of municipal services like electricity, water and sanitation.
(iv) Regular employment.
(v) Medical facilities in the locality like a dispensary.

2. Read this newspaper report and answer the questions that follow:
A vessel dumped 500 tonnes of liquid toxic wastes into open-air dumps in a city and in
the surrounding sea. This happened in a city called Abidjan in Ivory Coast, a country
in Africa. The fumes from the highly toxic waste caused nausea, skin rashes, fainting,
diarrhoea etc. After a month seven persons were dead, twenty in hospital and twenty-six
thousand treated for symptoms of poisoning.
A multinational company dealing in petroleum and metals has contracted a local company
of the Ivory Coast to dispose the toxic waste from its ship.
(i) Who are the people who benefited and who did not?
(ii) What should be the developmental goal for this country?
Ans. (i) Those who dumped the toxic waste have benefited while the people of Abidjan in
Ivory Coast were not benefited.
(ii) Pollution awareness.

3. What can be some of the developmental goals for your village, town or locality?
Ans. (i) Employment opportunities should be created.
(ii) Local school should be also able to provide quality education for the children.
(iii) Pucca houses should be built for the poor households.
(iv) Primary health centres and hospitals should be opened.
(v) There should be no existence of caste system and child labour.
(vi) There should be no gender inequality within the family.

activity (Page No. 7)

Objective of the Activity: To find that how can the goals of different people have variation.
How can they be conflicting i.e.; one’s development goal can be destructive for other with the
help of examples.
Solution:
 Goals can be different for different people. Building metro, flyovers in a state can be

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