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Chapter 6 Rural Administration Solutions

Question - 1 : - What is the work of the police?

Answer - 1 : -

Every police station works within a geographical area assigned to it. When there are any cases of theft, accident, injury, fight etc; it is the responsibility of the police to investigate and take action.

Question - 2 : - List two things that the work of a Patwari includes.

Answer - 2 : -

  1. Measuring the land and keeping land records is the main job
  2. Each Patwari is responsible for a group of villages.
  3. Maintains and updates the records of the villages

Question - 3 : - What is the work of a Tehsildar?

Answer - 3 : -

  1. Collecting land revenue
  2. Providing caste certificates to the students
  3. Keeping a track of the work done by the Patwari
  4. Making sure that land records are kept safely.

Question - 4 : - What issue is the poem trying to raise? Do you think this is an important issue? Why?

Answer - 4 : -

The poem is trying to raise the issue of gender discrimination against women. When women cannot inherit their father’s property, it always goes to the sons. It is a very important issue, because in the eyes of the constitution all are equal. Hence, they should be given equal rights over their parents’ property.

Question - 5 : - In what ways are the work of the Panchayat, that you read about in the previous chapter, and the work of the Patwari related to each other?

Answer - 5 : -

Panchayat solves the land disputes and the Patwari maintains land records.

Question - 6 : - Who is in charge of all the police stations in a district? Find out.

Answer - 6 : -

Superintendent of Police is in charge of all the police stations in a district.

Question - 7 : -  How do women benefit under the new law?

Answer - 7 : -

Now they can own the property of their parents. This has brought about a sense of security in their minds, so that it can help them financially in times of their needs.

Question - 8 : - In your neighbourhood are there women who own property? How did they acquire it?

Answer - 8 : -

Yes, in our neighbourhood there are several women who own property.

  1. Some of them have purchased property themselves.
  2. Some got the property registered in their name by their husbands/inlaws.
  3. Some have got the property inherited from their father.

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