Important Questions (2 marks): People As Resource

The services of housewives cannot be seen as flow of goods as its value cannot be measured so is not taken into account.

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age. The rate for a given region is the number of children dying under one year of age, divided by the number of live births during the year, multiplied by 1,000.

D is the correct option.Non market activites are those activities that have no financial transactions. It includes production for self consumption and hence, there is no profit associated with these activities.
(i)  Vilas sells fish in the village market - Market activity
(ii) Vilas cooks food for his family- Non- Market activity
(iii) Sakal works in a private firm- Market activity
(iv) Sakal looks after his younger brother and sister- Non-Market activity
 

When we produce a good by exploiting natural resources, it is an activity of the primary sector. Since most of the natural products we get are from agriculture, dairy, fishing, forestry, this sector is also called agriculture and related sector.

Out of these, forestry, poultry farming and animal husbandry come under the primary sector.

Manufacturing comes under the secondary sector.

Tertiary sector provides services

Tertiary sector is also known as service sector because tertiary sector provides various service to primary and secondary sectors and the people. In tertiary sector people do not offer any goods or products but their services like transportation, banking, teaching etc.

D is the correct option.Quality of population depends upon all given options.The quality of population depends upon the literacy rate, health of a person indicated by life expectancy and skill formation acquired by the people of the country.

People as Resource is a way of referring to a country's working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities.
Human resource is different from other resources in many senses. Human resources need education, training and healthcare to develop. On the other hand, land and physical capital need money and physical inputs to develop. Land and physical capital are useless without human resources.

Seasonal unemployment occurs when people are unemployed at certain times of the year, because they work in industries where they are not needed all year round. Examples of industries where demand, production and employment are seasonal include tourism and leisure, farming, construction and retailing.

Bribery is made to escape legal convictions or unfavorable decisions and are also provided as an incentive for the payee to forge or overlook regulations that will otherwise restrict the payer for his needs. This act of bribery does not favor the country's economy.

It is termed as voluntary unemployment.

Literacy in India has made remarkable strides since Independence.This has been further confirmed by the results of the Census 2001. The literacy rate has increased from 18.33% in 1951 to 64.84% (65%) in 2001. 

The Primary Healthcare Center (PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries.

The correct answer is B as Disguised unemployment refers to the employment of a person whose marginal productivity is zero, i.e, he does not contribute anything in the production process. If disguised unemployed people are withdrawn from a particular sector and transferred to other sectors, the productivity of the sector will remain unaffected. Such a condition exists majorly in the agricultural sector.

The percentage increase in dispensaries from 1951 to 2001 is 370 percent.

The number of registered doctors in India has increased from 61,800 in 1951 to about 645,825 in 2005 -- that's 0.60 doctors for 1,000 people.

There was an increase of 21 thousand teachers in the year 1998-99 compared to 1996-97. 

B is the correct option.18.33 percent
The literacy rate grew from 18.33 percent in 1951, to 74.04 percent in 2011.