DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL MARUTI KUNJ
CLASS- IX CH-4 FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT
Q-1 What is food security? What are its various dimensions?
Ans-1 Food Security- It means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all
people at all times. The dimensions of food security are-
1. Availability- It means food production within the country, food imports and previous years
stock stored in government granaries.
2. Accessibility- It means food is within the reach of every person.
3. Affordability- It means that an individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and
nutritious food to meet one’s dietary needs.
Q-2 How is food security affected during a calamity?
Ans-2 Food security affected –
1. Due to a natural calamity say drought, total production of foodgrains decreases.
2. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas. Due to the shortage the prices goes up.
3. At high prices some people cannot afford to buy food. If such calamity happens is stretched
over a longer period of time it causes a situation of starvation.
Q-3 What is Famine?
Ans-3 A famine is characterised by wide spread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by
forced use of contaminated water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to weakening
from starvation.
Q-4 Who are the people more prone to food insecurity?
Ans-4 People prone to food insecurity-
1. In Rural Areas- Landless people with little or no land to depend upon, traditional artisans
petty self-employed workers and beggars.
2. In Urban Areas- People employed in ill-paid occupations and casual labour market.
3. The SCs and STs and some sections of the OBCs who have poor land-base or very low land
productivity.
4. The people affected by natural disasters who have to migrate to other areas in search of
work are also food insecure people.
5. A large proportion of nursing mothers and children under the age of 5years are also food
insecure.
Q-5 Differentiate between Seasonal Hunger and Chronic Hunger.
Ans-5 Seasonal Hunger-
1. It is related to cycles of food growing and harvesting.
2. This is prevalent in rural areas because of the seasonal nature of agricultural activities.
3. It is prevalent in urban areas because of casual labour e.g.- there is less work for casual
construction labour during the rainy season.
4. This type of hunger exists when a person is unable to get work for the entire year.
Chronic Hunger-
1. It is a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of quality and quantity.
2. It prevails among the poor people due to their low income and in turn their inability to buy
food even for survival.
3. It is prevalent at all places among the very poor people.
Q-6 Write a note on AAY- Antyodaya Anna Yojana.
Ans-6 AAY-
1. It was launched in December 2000.
2. Under this scheme one crore of the poorest among the BPL families covered under the
targeted public distribution system were identified.
3. Poor families were identified by the respective state rural development departments through
the BPL survey.
4. Twenty- five kilograms of foodgrains were made available to each eligible family at a highly
subsidised rate of Rs.2per Kg for wheat and Rs.3 per Kg for rice.
5. The scheme has been further expanded twice by additional 50 lakh BPL families in June 2003
and in August 2004. With this increase 2 crore families have been covered under the AAY.
Q-7 What is Buffer Stock?
Ans-7 Buffer Stock-
1. It is the stock of food grains namely wheat and rice procured by the government through
Food Corporation of India (FCI).
2. The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus
production.
3. The farmers are paid a pre-announced price for their crops. This price is called Minimum
Support Price (MSP).
Q-8 Why is Buffer Stock created by the government?
Ans-8 Buffer Stock created by the government-
1. This is done to distribute foodgrains in the deficit areas among the poorer strata of society at
price lower than the market price also known as Issue Price.
2. This also help resolve the problem of shortage of food during adverse weather conditions or
during the period of calamity.
Q-9 Explain the role of Cooperatives in food security.
Ans-9 Role of Cooperatives-
1. The cooperatives are playing an important role in providing food and related items in the
southern and western parts of the country.
2. The cooperative societies set up shops to sell low priced good to the poor people.
3. In Tamil Nadu, around 94% of all fair price shops are being run by the cooperatives.
4. In Delhi Mother Dairy is making providing milk and vegetables to the consumers at
controlled rate decided by the Government of Delhi.
5. Amul is another success story of cooperatives in milk and milk products from Gujarat. It has
brought about White Revolution in the country.
Q-10 Write a note on The National Food Security Act 2013.
Ans-10 The National Food Security Act 2013-
1. This Act provides for food and nutritional security life at affordable prices and enables people
to live a life with dignity.
2. Under this Act 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population have been
categorised as eligible households for food security.
Q-11 What is hunger?
Ans-11 Hunger is another aspect indicating food insecurity. Hunger is not just expression of poverty
it brings about poverty.
Q-12 Name the Regions/States where people are mostly food insecure.
Ans-12 Regions and States-
1. The food insecure people are disproportionately large in some regions of the country, such
as economically backward states with high incidence of poverty, tribal and remote areas and
regions more prone to natural disasters.
2. The states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra account for
largest number of food insecure people in the country.
Q-13 Write note on- Minimum Support Price, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.
Ans-13 Minimum Support Price-
1. The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus
production. They are paid pre-announced price for their crops. This price is called Minimum
Support Price.
2. The MSP is declared by the government every year before the sowing season to provide
incentives to the farmers for raising the production of the crops.
3. The purchased foodgrains are stored in the granaries.
Issue Price-
1. The buffer stock is created to distribute foodgrains in the deficit areas and among the poorer
strata of society at a price lower than the market price also known as the Issue Price.
Fair Price Shops-
1. Ration shops also known as Fair Price Shops keep stock of foodgrains, sugar and kerosene oil
for cooking. These items are sold to people at a price lower than the market price.
2. Any family with a ration card can but a stipulated amount of these items every month from
the nearby ration shop.
Q-14 Explain the main features of the PDS system.
Ans-14 Features of PDS system-
1. It has proved to be the most effective instrument of government policy over the years in
stabilising prices and making food available to consumers at affordable prices.
2. It has been instrumental in averting widespread hunger and famine by supplying food from
surplus regions of the country to the deficit ones.
3. The prices have been under revision in favour of poor households in general.
4. The system including the MSP has contributed to an increase in foodgrain production and
provided income security to farmers in certain regions.
Q-15 Why the PDS has faced severe criticism?
Ans-15 The PDS has faced severe criticism on several grounds-
1. Instances of hunger are prevalent despite overflowing granaries.
2. FCI godowns are overflowing with grains with some rotting away and some being eaten by
rats.
DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, MARUTI KUNJ, GURGAON
REVISION ASSIGNMENT/ QUESTION BANK
CLASS 9 CHEMISTRY
1. Give Reasons for the following:
a. Ice floats on surface of water
b. Naphthalene balls disappear with time.
c. Smell of perfume spreads all over the room
d. Earthen pots cool the water during summers
e. Table is a solid
2. Define the following
a. A true solution
b. Saturated solution
c. Diffusion
d. Colloid solution
e. Tyndal Effect
3. Give the formulas of the following compounds:
a. Magnesium chloride b. Potassium nitrate c. Zinc sulphate
d. Calcium hydroxide e. Sodium hydroxide f. Magnesium nitrate
g. Aluminium oxide h. Ammonium carbonate
4. Give the molecular mass of the following compounds.
a. calcium carbonate b. carbon dioxide c. sodium oxide
d. Calcium hydroxide e. Sodium hydroxide f. sodium carbonate
(Given atomic mass Ca-40, C- 12, O-16, Na-23)
5. Write the atomicity of the following:
a. CH4 b. P2O5 c.CaSO4 d.C2H6.
e. NH3 f.H2SO4 g. Al(OH)3
6. Give the observations and conclusions of Rutherford's Alpha particle scattering
experiment.
7. Give the formula for the following
i) Aluminium chloride ii) Sodium sulphate iii) Copper oxide
8. Draw the electronic configuration of Li, Be, O, Al, Na and C on the basis of Bohr’s model
9. Convert the following temperature to Kelvin
a. 34oC b. 56oC c. 72oC
10. Convert the following temperatures to oC
a. 232K b.48K c.311K
Case Based Question:
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances is called a true solution. it consists of
solute and solvent. The particle size of the true solution is less than 1 nanometer. A
suspension is a heterogeneous mixture in which the solute particle does not dissolve but
remains suspended throughout the bulk of the medium. A colloid is a mixture that is actually
heterogeneous but appears to be homogeneous as the particles are uniformly spread
throughout the solution.
i) Which one of the following is most stable?
a. True solution
b. Suspensions
c. Colloids
d. both A and B
ii) Which type of mixture can be separated by filtration?
a. True
b. Suspensions
c. Colloids
d. All of these
iii) Which statement is incorrect about the Tyndall effect.
a. True solution shows Tyndall effect
b. Suspensions show the Tyndall effect
c. Colloid show Tyndall effect
d. Both B and C show the Tyndall effect
iv) Which is the correct order of stability of solution
a. True < Colloid<Suspension
b. Colloid<Suspension<True
c. Colloid<True<Suspension
d. Suspension<Colloid<True
Blue Print
Sec A: 1X8=8
Sec B: 2X1=2
Sec C: 3X3=6
Sec D: 5X1=5
Sec E: 1X4=4
