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Class 11 Rural Development worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Rural credit, NABARD and self-help groups, agricultural marketing, MSP and buffer stocks, diversification, animal husbandry, fisheries, horticulture and organic farming. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
NABARD, the apex body for rural finance, was set up in:
- 1991
- 2005
- 1969
- 1982
Answer
(d) 1982
- 2.
What is the role of Kudumbashree?
- a Kerala programme of thrift and credit for poor women
- training women in Tamil Nadu in farm techniques and organic farming
- orderly, transparent buying and selling of farm produce
- an online all-India market linking mandis
Answer
(a) a Kerala programme of thrift and credit for poor women
- 3.
What is meant by “buffer stock”?
- farming without chemicals that keeps ecological balance
- farmers selling their produce together
- developing the lagging areas and people of the village economy
- grain held by FCI to keep supplies and prices steady
Answer
(d) grain held by FCI to keep supplies and prices steady
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What is rural development?
Answer
Action to develop the areas that lag behind in the village economy: their people’s skills, land, infrastructure and incomes.
- 5.
Explain each term: (a) microcredit (b) Golden Revolution
Answer
(a) small loans to the poor without collateral (b) the rapid growth of horticulture
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Explain how self-help groups work.
Answer
Members save small sums regularly, pool them and lend to members at reasonable interest; banks then lend to the group, so poor people without collateral get credit.
Fresh sheets for your child
In the app, every Rural Development sheet is new: the app remembers the questions your child has already had and leaves them out. Print the sheet as a PDF, or use notebook mode and write the answers in a notebook.
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