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NCERT Chapter Summary: Understanding Marginalisation
1. Write in your own words in two or more sentences of what you understand by the word ‘marginalisation’?
The word ‘marginalisation’ refers to a situation in which an individual or a group of individual is deprived of certain privileges or treated as different from others.
NCERT Chapter Summary: Confronting Marginalisation
1. List two Fundamental Rights in the Constitution that Dalits can draw upon to insist that they be treated with dignity and equals.
The two Fundamental rights are (i) Right to equality (ii) Right against exploitation
NCERT Chapter Summary: Public Facilities
1. Why do you think there are so few cases of private water supply in the world?
When the responsibility for water supply was handed over to private companies, there was a steep rise in the price of water, making it unaffordable by many people.
NCERT Chapter Summary: Law and Social Justice
1. Talk to two workers (for example, construction workers, farm workers, factory workers, workers at any shop) to find out if they are receiving the minimum wages laid down by law?
- Construction worker : They get below the minimum wages set down.
- Factory worker : They receive below the minimum wages.
NCERT Chapter Summary: Beauty
Beauty gives pleasure to everyone and can be seen, heard and felt. Beauty can be noticed in the sunlight, the trees and the birds. It can also be seen in the people who work hard, cultivated their land and grow crops. The scene looks beautiful when people dance for their harvest.
NCERT Chapter Summary: Dad and the Cat and the Tree
One morning, a cat got stuck in the tree. The narrator’s dad decided that he will easily be able to take care of it. Narrator’s father decided to climb the tree. His wife warned him that he might fall, but ignoring her warnings he climbed the ladder, slipped and fell.