urban livelihood question answer

                         Urban Livelihood

1. list five urban livelihoods.

Ans. Following are the five urban livelihoods; Rickshaw pulling, Newspaper vending,    Call centre, Shop keeping and office works.

2. Who is Rampreet?

Ans. Rampreet is a Rickshaw puller. He belongs to a village in northern Bihar.

3. Who assemble at labour chowk?

Ans. Daily wages or casual workers assembled at labour chowk. They are hired by needy persons on daily basis.

4. What is a call centre?

Ans. Call centres are private offices which deal with problems and questions of consumers or customers regarding goods purchased and services like banking, payments of bills etc.

There are two kinds of call centre; domestic and international call centre.

Short answer type questions

1. Discuss the difference between a permanent, and a casual job.

      Ans.Permanent job is regular work and  have a good salary.
        It also included many benefits such as medical leaves, 27 days annual leave, paid holidays, gratuity and pension. Working hours are fixed in this job.
casual job is not regular work and wages are very less. 
In this job no benefits include such as leaves, medical and pension.
Working hours are long and no holidays.  
        

2. What benefits does Mr. Sohan mishra get as a marketing manager?

Ans. He is a permanent worker, drawing a regular salary. 

He also gets many benefits like Employment provident fund, gratuity, medical benefits and leave benefits. 

Apart from Sunday and holidays, he gets twenty- seven days annual leave.

He also gets an annual increments based on his performance.

3. How is work done in garment factory?

Ans. A hundred workers stitching cloths with sewing machines.

Some workers are fixes the buttons.

Other workers are ironing the cloths.

4. Why have call centre’s’ in India become so popular?

Ans. Because multinational companies have to to pay much lower wages to Indian call centre’s worker as compare to European countries.

Long answer type questions

1. Discuss the life of vendors and hawkers. How do they face the problems in their lives?

Ans. Vendors and hawkers sell anything and everything from eatables, snacks, sweetmeats to garments, shoe etc.

Many of them spreading items on plastic sheets or on benches on pavements.

They using canvas sheet to protect themselves from rain or sunlight.

Problems

They don’t have security of work.

Their earnings are meager and some of them spend nights on pavements.

They have to cook and wash themselves.

2. Describe an office area of a city.

Ans. An office area is located in the commercial area of the city.

Mostly offices are air conditioned and partitioned in cabins.

Workers are working on permanent as well as temporary basis in these offices.

From managers to peon work in these city offices.

3. Write a brief note on each of the following.

(a)    Casual workers (b) permanent workers (c) call centre’s.

Ans. Casual workers are daily wages workers hired by needy persons on daily basis.

These workers work at construction sites, dig pipelines, laid telephone cables, loaded and unloaded trucks etc.

These workers are ill clothed and ill fed also.

Their income is very less.

Permanent workers are drawing a regular salary along with many benefits such as medical and leave benefits,  Employment provident fund and gratuity.

 They get 27 days annual leave.

They also get annual increments according to their performance.

Call centre’s above given.
Ans: Call centres are private offices which deal with problems and questions of consumers or customers regarding goods purchased and services like banking, payments of bills etc.

There are two kinds of call centres, domestic and international call centre.

4. Do you think casual or temporary workers in a company should be given facilities and benefits at par with the permanents staff? Why/ Why not?

Ans Yes casual workers should get all the benefits and facilities similar to permanent workers because these workers also contribute in the countries economy.

Their earnings are very meager and could not pace with their expenditures.

Their children also need to send to school for education which they can not give them with less income.

They also need good health and better facilities for their overall development.