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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SESSION 2020-21
CLASS-IX
ECONOMICS- Ch-1- STORY OF VILLAGE PALAMPUR
HOME ASSIGNMENT
SUB-TOPIC- 6
Subtopics: An example of small-scale manufacturing in
Palampur
The shopkeepers of Palampur
Transport: a fast developing sector

OBJECTIVE ASSIGNMENT

1 The activities such as small manufacturing, transport, shopkeeping are referred to as
(a) Non-economic activities
(b) Non-farming activities
(c) Non-traditional activities
(d) Non-market activities

2 At present how many people were engaged in manufacturing in Palampur
a) Less than 40 people
b) 50 people
c) Less than 50 people
d) 40 people

3 Kishora is a farm labourer. Like other such labourers, Kishora found it difficult to meet his
family’s needs from the wages that he received. A few years back Kishora took a loan from
the bank. This was under a government programme which was giving cheap loans to poor
landless households. Kishora bought a buffalo with this money. He now sells the buffalo’s
milk.

What is Kishora’s fixed capital?
a) Loan from the bank
b) Wages
c) Buffalo
d) Government Programme

4 In the question given below, There are two statements marked as Assertion(A) and
Reason(R).Read the statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Along with farming small farmers engage in small-scale manufacturing in
villages
Reason(R): small farmers need to supplement their income for their sustenance (a) Both A
and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.