Inside question and answers of Civics L-1 equality in Indian democracy.
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Question 1.
What are the key elements of a democracy?
Answer:
The key elements of a democratic government are people’s participation, the resolution of conflict and equality and justice.
Equality is the main feature of democracry. It influences its functioning.
Question 2.
What are the main aspects of Kanta’s story?
Answer:
The story tells us about two different aspects of status of people in our country. On the election day Kanta and Sujata along stood in the queue for voting. All others including Kanta’s sahib also stood in the same queue. This made them feel like an equal citizen.
Kanta’s daughter was not well but she had to finish her daily work and take advance before she could take her to the doctor. Even there she had to stand in queue in government hospital to wait for her turn. She realized that, line had only poor people like her. If her employer had to go to doctor they can afford a private doctor.
Question 3.
Does Kanta has enough reason to doubt the equality level of citizens?
Answer:
Yes, Kanta has enough reasons to doubt whether she is really equal. Reasons:
She cannot skip work even when her daughter is ill.
She does not have enough money to take her daughter to doctor.
She has to stand in line at a government hospital for her turn to show her daughter to the doctor.
Equal Right to Vote
Question 1.
Who is allowed to vote in India?
Answer:
In a democratic country, like India, all adults aged 18 years or above irrespective of their religion, education, caste, rich or poor are allowed to vote.
Question 2.
What is universal adult franchise? What is the basis of it?
Answer:
Voting right to all adults is called universal adult franchise.
It is an essential aspect of all democracies.
The idea of universal adult franchise is based on the idea of equality because it states that every adult in a country, irrespective of their wealth and the communities, he/she belongs to, has one vote.
Question 3.
Why is Kanta happy?
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Kanta is happy and excited to vote because this makes her equal to others. Everyone has one vote.
Question 4.
With the advancing of the day Kanta becomes less certain about what equality really means. What is it that makes Kanta unsure?
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Kanta lives in a slum and has a drain behind her house.
Her daughter is sick but she cannot skip day’s work because she needs to borrow money from her employers to take her child to the doctor.
Her job as a domestic help tires her out.
She ends her day by again standing in a long line. This line is in front of the government hospital.
It is unlike the one in the morning because most of the people standing in it are poor.
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