Question 1 What is the work of the police?
Answer The work of the police are :
(a) To maintain law and order in its area.
(b) To register cases of thefts, accidents, injuries, fights.
(c) To listen to the public complaints.
(d) Maintenance of public safety.
Question 2 List two things that the work of a Patwari includes.
Answer The work of a Patwari include
(a) Measuring land and keeping land records.
(b) He organises the collection of land revenue from the farmers and provides information to the government about the crops grown in the area.
Question 3 What is the work of a tehsildar?
Answer The work of Tehsildar are :
(a) Ensuring a proper collection of land revenue.
(b) Provide caste certificate to the students.
(c) Ensuring that land records are kept safely.
(d) Supervising the work of Patwaris.
(e) To settle disputes regarding land.
Question 4 What issue is the poem trying to raise? Do you think this is an important issue? Why?
Answer The poem raises the issue of rights for a girl child. A girl should be treated equally in society. She should be given the same right as a male child is given. Inheritance in the paternal properties should be equally divided among all the members without any consideration of boy or girl. Dowry is not compensated to a girl child. It should be abolished. This poem raises a very justified issue.
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 The poem raises the issue of rights for a girl child. A girl should be treated equally in society. She should be given the same right as a male child is given. Inheritance in the paternal properties should be equally divided among all the members without any consideration of boy or girl. Dowry is not compensated to a girl child. It should be abolished. This poem raises a very justified issue.
Question 6 Visit a police station and find out the work that the police have to do to prevent crime and maintain law and order in their area especially during festivals, public meetings etc.
Answer To prevent crime and maintain law and order in their area especially during festivals, public meetings the police take the following steps:
(a) Spread awareness among people in many ways.
(b) Prepare for an emergency.
(c) Enquire about the amount of crowd to be gathered in the local areas.
(d) They prepare the set up of the police on duty.
(e) CCTV cameras are installed in the area at different places to keep watch on the activities of the people.
Question 7 Who is in charge of all the police stations in a district? Find out.
Answer Senior Superintendent of Police or Deputy Commissioner of Police (In Delhi and Mumbai) is the in-charge of all Police stations in a district.
Question 8 How do women benefit under the new law?
Answer The new laws has brought a good change in the life of women as :
(1) They feel more secure and independent.
(2) They can get the share in the ancestral property.
(3) They can start their own work after becoming financially independent.
(4) They are empowered and live peacefully in society.
Question 9 In your neighbourhood are there women who own property? How did they acquire it?
Answer 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/in laws.
(3) Some have got the property inherited from their father.
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