CBSE Class 6 Civics Solutions For Chapter 5 Rural Administration

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Rural Administration Exercises

Question 1. What is the work of the police?

Answer:

CBSE Class 6 Civics Work Of Police

Question 2. List two things that the work of a Patwari includes:

Answer:

Work of a Patwari (Any two):

  • To measure land
  • To maintain and update records of land

Question 3. What is the work of a tehsildar?

Answer:

Tehsildar has the following duties:

CBSE Class 6 Civics Tehsildar Duties

Question 4. What issue is the poem trying to raise? Do you think this is an important issue? Why?

Answer:

The poem is trying to raise the issue of the inheritance of daughters and wives on the property of their father or husband.

  1. I think this issue is an important issue as daughters after marriage are harassed for more dowry and money as they do not inherit a share in the property of their father.
  2. If the daughters inherit their father’s property they can do enough to meet both ends.
  3. No in-laws’ family would harass them for dowry if they inherited a share in the property of their father.

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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:

  • Patwari maintains the land records and provides information on crops grown. With this, the government grants are finalized.
  • Panchat does the developmental work for which these government grants are required?

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:

The police do the following to prevent crime and maintain law and order in their area, especially during festivals, public meetings, etc.

  1. They deploy additional police force.
  2. They increase vigil.
  3. They deploy quick communication techniques.
  4. They increase surveillance.
  5. They keep an eye on the bad elements of the area.

Question 7. Who is in charge of all the police stations in a district? Find out.

Answer:

Senior Superintendent of Police (S.S.P.) is the in-charge of all Police stations in a district.

In Mumbai and Delhi, S.S.P. is called Deputy Commissioner of Police (D.C.P.).

Question 8. How do women benefit under the new law?

Answer:

Under the new law, women also get to share in the property of their fathers equally with their brothers, sisters, and mothers.

Question 9. In your neighborhood are there women who own property? How did they acquire it?

Answer:

Yes, in our neighborhood there are several women who own property.

  1. Some of them have purchased property themselves.
  2. Some have the property registered in their name by their husbands-in-law.
  3. Some have got the property inherited from their father or husband.

Question 10. A Quarrel in the Village: Mohan is a farmer. His family owns a small agricultural field, which they have him up. The neighbors heard the commotion and rushed to the spot where Mohan was being beaten up. They took him away.

Area of a Police Station: On the way to the police station, one of the neighbors asked, It is the responsibility of the police of that station to enquire, investigate, and take action on the cases within its area.

  1. If there is a theft in your house which police station would you go to register your complaint?
  2. What was the dispute between Mohan and Raghu?
  3. Why was Mohan worried about picking a quarrel with Raghu?
  4. Some people said Mohan should report the matter to the police and others said he should not. What were the arguments they gave?

Answer:

  1. If there is a theft in our house we would go to the police station of our area to register our complaint.
  2. The dispute between Mohan and Raghu was:
    • Raghu had shifted the bund of his agricultural field by a few feet into the fields of Mohan.
  3. Mohan was worried about picking a quarrel with Raghu because of the following reasons:
    • Raghu was a big landlord, as his family owned many agricultural fields.
    • He had resources.
    • His uncle was the sarpanch of the village.
  4. The arguments given by the people:
    • He should report to the police
      • The police would help him.
      • It would also send him to jail if Raghu resists.
    • He should not report to the police:
      • He would waste a lot of money.
      • Nothing would come out of it.
      • Raghu would have already contacted the police.

Question 11. When they reached the police station Mohan went to the person in charge complaint and also told the people that he would send a constable the next day to investigate the incident.

  1. Then talk about how you felt playing Mohan’s role or that of the S.H.O. or the neighbours.
  2. Could the S.H.O. have handled the situation differently?

Answer:

  1. I felt very sorry for playing Mohan’s role, as no one in the police station helped me initially.
    • Playing the role of S.H.O., I was feeling very proud. I was feeling like an officer.
    • Playing a neighbor’s role, I felt as if I was a friend of Mohan and I was helping Mohan.
  2. The S.H.O. could have handled the situation differently.
    • He could have listened to Mohan patiently.
    • He could have sent Raghu to the Police station.
    • He could have warned Raghu and retraced his decision.
    • He could have stopped Raghu without any fear or pressure.

Question 12. You saw that Mohan and Raghu were arguing heatedly about whether the common boundary of their fields had been shifted. Isn’t there a way by which they could have settled this dispute peacefully? Are there records that show who owns what land in the village? Let’s find out how this is done. Could the S.H.O. have handled the situation differently?

Answer:

  1. Yes, there is a way by which they could have settled this dispute in a peaceful manner:
  2. Mohan should have gone to Patwari first and got the fields measured.
  3. Mohan should have gone to the village panchayat.
    • The Panchayat would have discussed the matter with Mohan and Raghu.
    • The village members would have stopped Raghu and he would have retraced his step.
    • He would have given back the occupied portion of land to Mohan.
  4. Yes, there are revenue records of the land in the village. They remain with the village of Patwari.
  5. How land records are kept is given below:
    • Patwari is an officer who measures the land and keeps the land records.
    • Patwari is called by different names in different states:
      • Patwari or Lekhpal or kanungo or karamchari or village officer.
  6. Patwari maintains and updates the land records:
    • He uses a long chain for measuring land.

CBSE Class 6 Civics Chapter 5 Rural Administration Question And Answers

Question 13.

  1. Find out the term used for the Patwari in your state:
  2. If you live in a rural area, find out:
    • How many villages does the Patwari of your area maintain land records of?
    • How do people in the village contact him or her?

Answer:

  1. Patwari in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh: (Lekhpal in U.P.).
  2. In my area, for 7 villages, there is one Patwari.
    • The Patwari fixes the days for each village. Usually, the Panchayat President’s office is his office. People can contact him in this office.

Question 14. When do you think farmers may require a copy of this record? Study the following situations and identify the cases in which these records would be necessary and why.

Answer:

CBSE Class 6 Civics About Farmers

Question 15. Other Public Services Survey This chapter has looked at some of the administrative work of the government, provided by various departments of the government.

Do the following exercise for your village/by visiting a nearby village or looking at your area.

List the public services in the village or area such as the milk society, the fair price shop, the bank, the police station, the agricultural society for seeds and fertilizer, the post office or sub post office, the Anganwadi, creche, the government school/s, health center or government hospital, etc.

Collect information on three public services and discuss with your teacher how improvements can be made in their functioning. One example has been worked out.

Answer:

CBSE Class 6 Civics Public Services Survey

Rural Administration Very Short Type Questions And Answers

Question 1. How many villages are there in India?

Answer:

More than 6 lakh villages.

Question 2. Comment on the area of a police station.

Answer:

Every police station has an area under its control.

  • All the people in this area can report cases and inform the police station about theft, accidents, injuries, or fights.
  • The police enquire, investigate, and take action on the cases filed with the police station.

Question 3. Which names are generally given to sub-divisions of a district?

Answer:

  • Tehsil or
  • Taluka

Rural Administration Short Type Questions And Answers

Question 1. What could have boon the role of Patwari in solving the dispute between Raghu and Mohan?

Answer:

Both could have approached the Patwari who would have measured their lands. Those measurements would have been compared with the land records to find the solution. This would have shown whether Raghu has changed the boundary or not.

Question 2. What are the important needs of villages?

Answer:

Rural Administration Important needs For Village

Rural Administration Long Tpe Questions And Answers

Question 1. Describe the provisions of the Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005.

Answer:

Provisions of Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005.

  • Till the amendment, women did not have the right to share a family’s agricultural land.
  • After the death of the father, his land was distributed among his sons only.

According to the New Law:

  • Sons, daughters, and the spouses of the deceased person get an equal share in the land or property.
  • The law applies to all the states and union territories.
  • Patwari will transfer the land to all sons, daughters, and spouses of the deceased and record their names in the revenue records.
  • Before 2005, this law was applicable only in some states.

Rural Administration Multiple Choice Questions And Answers

Question 1. Who is Mohan in this chapter?

  1. A farmer
  2. A doctor
  3. An engineer
  4. SHO

Answer: 1. A farmer

Question 2. What was the occupation of Mohan’s friends?

  1. Running a post-office
  2. Running a cloth-shop
  3. Running a clinic
  4. Running a chemist’s shop

Answer: 1. Running a post-office

Question 3. Where did Mohan go after being beaten up by Raghu?

  1. Hospital
  2. Clinic
  3. Pilic Station
  4. None of these

Answer: 3. Pilic Station

Question 4. To whom did Mohan meet at the Police station to complain about what had happened to him?

  1. Shop
  2. SI
  3. ASI
  4. None of these

Answer: 1. Shop

Question 5. Patwari is also known as

  1. lekhpal
  2. karamchari
  3. village officer
  4. All of these

Answer: 4. All of these

Question 6. What is the other work of Patwari?

  1. Selling medicine
  2. Collection of land revenue
  3. Growing crops in a field
  4. None of these

Answer: 2. Collection of land revenue

Question 7. All the states of India are divided into

  1. Cities
  2. Nagars
  3. Grams
  4. Districts

Answer: 4. Districts

Question 8. Name the person or persons who inherit the property of a deceased person.

  1. Sons
  2. Daughters
  3. Wife
  4. Sons, daughters, and wife

Answer: 4. Sons, daughters and wife

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