Social Studies VSQ (2 Marks)

A. The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers.
B. The farmers are paid a pre announced price for their crops.
C. This price is called Minimum Support Price.
D. The MSP is declared by the government every year before the sowing season to provide incentives to the farmers for raising the production of these crops.

A. There is no guarantee that mistakes cannot be made in democracy.
B. No form of government can guarantee that. The advantage in a democracy that such mistakes cannot be hidden for long.
C. There is a space for public discussion on these mistakes. And there is a room for correction. Either the rulers have to change their decisions, or the rulers can be changed.

When the investment is made in the form of education, training and medical care, the quality of population improves and becomes a great asset. It is known as human capital. When the investment is made in the existing human resource for further development by becoming more educated and healthy is termed as human capital formation.
The two sources of human capital formation are educated and health.

A. This type of employment is caused due to mismatch in the size of population and the structure of the economy.
B. An underdeveloped infrastructure cannot provide employment to such a large population.

(i) Mt. Everest - 8,848 metres, Nepal
(ii) Kanchenjunga - 8,598 metres, India
(iii)Makalu- 8481 metres ,Nepal
(iv) Dhaulagiri - 8,172 metres, Nepal
(v) Nanga Parbat - 8,126 metres, India
(vi) Annapurna - 8,078 metres, Nepal
(vii) Nanda Devi - 7,817 metres, India
(viii) Kamet - 7,756 metres, India
(ix) Namcha Barwa - 7,756 metres, India
(x) Gurla Mandhata - 7,728 metres, Nepal