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NCERT Class 9 Economics Chapter 2: People as Resource
NCERT Class 9 Economics
Chapter 2: People as Resource
Population
- Asset & not liability
- Working population – Skill & productivity
- Contribution to GNP
- Education & Healthy Human – Human Capital Formation – Return on Investment
- Green Revolution
- IT revolution
- Skill India
- Human resource can make use of land and capital
- Land and capital cannot become useful on its own
- Education adds to quality of labour – Increases productivity & growth of economy
- Child with investment can lead to higher earning & greater contribution to society
- Uneducated people create a vicious cycle of disadvantaged state
- Japan – with no natural resource, only human resource – developed
Economic Activities
- Primary Sector: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishing, poultry farming, and mining.
- Secondary Sector: Quarrying and manufacturing
- Tertiary Sector: Trade, transport, communication, banking, education, health, tourism, services, insurance etc.
- Economic Activity: Activity for pay or profit – Production of Goods & Services
- Non-Economic Activity: Activity for self-consumption – Primary products
Gender Parity - Key
- Division of Labour – Men (fields) & Women (domestic)
- Women – Meager education, low skill formation, low wages, absence of maternity leave, childcare & social security systems for unorganized sector
Quality of Population – Education
- Promotes national income
- Cultural richness
- Efficiency of governance
- Education as Catalyst
- Vocational Education
- Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
- No a right but to enjoy rights
- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
- Mid-Day Meals
- Higher Education – A Focus
- Standardization – Common Entrance
- 3- Language Formula
Quality of Population – Health
- Accessibility
- Family care
- Nutrition
- IMR & MMR – Protection from infection, nutrition, vaccination
- Life Expectancy
- Longetivity
- Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra – Surpass
- Free medical care
- National Rural Health Mission
Types of Unemployment
- Frictional – laid off from job, change job, take time off
- Structural – Skill not match the job – technological advancement
- Cyclic – Economic downturns & falls
- Seasonal – Based on production schedules
Quality of Population – Unemployment
- Rural – Seasonal (agriculture) & Disguised (for work of 4 people have 6 of them – people with agricultural plots – Productivity unaffected)
- Urban – Educated (surplus manpower in certain areas while shortage in others)
- Wastage of manpower
- Hopelessness & despair
- Increase economic overload - in health & withdrawal from school
- Agriculture: Labor Absorbing – Mechanization, Disguised
- Production: Small Scale – Labor absorbing
- Tertiary: Upcoming - Biotechnology, nanotechnology, IT
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