Story of village Palampur-Notes part-1 - Class 9 PDF Download

OVERVIEWS:- The story gives the idea of production and employment in the villages of India. Palampur is a hypothetical village. Farming is the main activity. Beside diary farming, small scale production, shop keeping, etc are the other activities. Palampur is connected with Raiganj a big village(3km away from Palampur) and Shahpur a small town.

∗ Many kinds of vehicles like tongas, bullock carts, bogeys(carts drawn by buffaloes) loaded with jaggery, jeep, motor vehicle, tractors and trucks are also seen in the village.

∗ There are 450 families in Palampur. Out of them 80 families are of upper castes own lands in the village. The dalits are comprised of one-third of the population and lived in a corner of the village in smaller and mud & straw house.

∗ The village had the facilities of electricity, tube wells, 2 primary school, one high school, a primary heath center runs by the government and one private dispensary.

ORGANISATION OF PRODUCTION:-

1. What is the aim of production?

The aim of production is to produce goods and services.

2. What are the four requirement of production?

The four requirements of the production are:-

1.LAND:- contains natural resource, water, minerals and forest

2.LABOUR:- People do the work and manufacture goods and services. Labours may be skilled, unskilled, educated or uneducated depending upon the production works and requirement.

3.PHYSICAL CAPITAL:- It is of 2 types-

        a)FIXED CAPITAL- Tools, machine, building,etc. They may be ranged from very simple such as farmers plough to sophesticated machines such as generators, computers, etc.

      b)WORKING CAPITAL- Raw materials and money in hand is known as working capitals.