Urban Livelihoods Facts To Remember
Urban life is fast and busy and different from rural life.
- Different people work as vendors, traders, shopkeepers, executives, etc.
- There are almost one crore vendors in the country.
- Most of the people work on their own or are casual laborers on daily wages.
- There are markets with shops and offices, banks, etc.
- There are factories that employ generally casual workers on a need basis.
- Casual workers get work during seasons, there is no job security or defined working hours.
- There are permanent workers who work in offices, government departments, etc.
- Regular workers get benefits like job security, pension, provident fund, gratuity, medical allowance, paid holidays, etc.
- Call centers have become a new form of employment.
Urban Livelihoods Keywords
These can be regarding services provided by a bank, ticket bookings, etc.
Urban Livelihoods Objective Type Questions
Question 1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
1. Almost _______ % of all the workers are street workers on the streets of Ahmedabad.
Answer: Twelve
2. ________ issue licenses to permanent shops.
Answer: Municipal Corporation
3. Call centers are usually found in _________
Answer: Cities
4. _______ have been created in cities for the street vendors.
Answer: Hawing zones.
Question 2. State whether the given statements are true or false.
1. Most of the businessmen are employed by the government.
Answer: False
2. Municipal Corporation decides which day of the week which market would remain closed.
Answer: True
3. Traders get together at Labour Chowlc to do business.
Answer: False
4. Shopkeepers and traders employ people to work for them.
Answer: True.
Question 3. Match the contents of Column A with that of Column B.
Answer: 1-c, 2-a 3-d, 4-b