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Public Facilities
Discuss the importance of water with regard to India.
Water is essential for life and for good health. Not only is it necessary for us to be able to meet our daily needs but safe drinking water can prevent many water-related diseases.
India has one of the largest number of cases of diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera. Over 1,600 Indians, most of them children below the age of five, reportedly die everyday because of water-related diseases. These deaths can be prevented if people have access to safe drinking water.
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Why are most of the private hospitals and private schools located in major cities and not in towns or rural areas?
Do you think the distribution of public facilities in our country is adequate and fair? Give an example of your own to explain.
Take some of the public facilities in your area, such as water, electricity, etc. Is there scope to improve these? What in your opinion should be done? Complete the table.
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Are the above public facilities shared equally by all the people in your area? Elaborate.
Data on some of the public facilities are collected as part of the Census. Discuss with your teacher when and how the Census is conducted.
Private educational institutions- schools,colleges, universities, technical and vocational training institutes are coming up in our country in a big way. On the other hand, educational institutes run by the government are becoming relatively less important. What do you think would be the impact of this? Discuss.
Which one of the following is not a public facility?
Our Constitution guarantees the Right to Education for all children between the ages of
Which one of the following is a waterborne disease.
The most important form of public transport over short distance is
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