Class XI
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
2015-16(Winter Break)
Practice
the questions given below:
1 Critically appraise some of the shortfalls of the industrial policy
pursued by colonial Government.
2. Highlight the salient features of India’s pre- independence
occupational structure.
3. What was the causes behind India’s agricultural stagnation.
4. Why was public sector given a leading role in industrial
development during the planning period?
5. Why despite of green revolution, 65 % of India’s population
continued to be engaged in agricultural sector till 1990?
6. What are the major factors responsible for high growth of
service sector?
7. Discuss economic reforms in India in the light of social
justice and welfare.
8. Why are tariffs imposed?
9. Illustrate the difference between rural and urban poverty.
What is the difference between rural and urban poverty?
10.
Explain how investment in education stimulates economic
growth.
11.
What are the main problems of human capital formation in
India?
12.
Discuss the alternative channels available for agricultural
marketing?113.
What is organic farming? How does it promote sustainable
development?
14.
Why is it important to generate employment in formal sector
rather than in informal sector?
15.
Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major
public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years.
16.
Explain any two factors responsible of environmental degradation.
17.
How environment plays its role for sustainable development?
18.
How poverty and employment related to each other?
