Question
Picture 4.1 Starvation victims arriving at a relief centre, 1945.
Picture 4.2 During the Bengal Famine of 1943, a family leaves its village in China gong district in Bengal.
Questions:
(a) What do you see in Picture 4.1?
(b) Which age group is seen in the first picture?
(c) Can you say that the family shown in the Picture 4.2 is a poor family? Why?
(d) Can you imagine the source of livelihood of the people, (shown in two pictures) before the occurrence of famine ? (In the context of a village)
(e) Find out what type of help is given to the victims of natural calamity at a relief camp.
(f) Have you ever helped such victims (in the form of money, food, clothes, medicines etc.)?
Solution
(a) We see in Picture 4.1 the starvation victims arriving at relief centre, 1945.
(b)Old age group is seen in the first Picture.
(c)The family shown in the Picture 4.2 is a poor family because this family is leaving its village due to poverty.
(d)The source of livelihood of the people before the occurrence of famine could be agriculture and its allied activities.
(e)The victims of a natural calamity at relief camp is given in kind of food, clothes, medicines and money etc.
(f)Yes, I have helped such victims in the form of money.
(b)Old age group is seen in the first Picture.
(c)The family shown in the Picture 4.2 is a poor family because this family is leaving its village due to poverty.
(d)The source of livelihood of the people before the occurrence of famine could be agriculture and its allied activities.
(e)The victims of a natural calamity at relief camp is given in kind of food, clothes, medicines and money etc.
(f)Yes, I have helped such victims in the form of money.
