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(i) The Constitution has been amended to prevent elected MLAs and MPs from changing parties. Now if any elected MLA or MP changes his party, he or she will lose his/her seat in the Legislative Assembly or Parliament. This amended law has helped to bring down the number of defections.
(ii) The Supreme Court has passed an order to reduce the influence of money and criminals. Now it has become mandatory for every candidate, who contests election, to file an affidavit giving details of his assets and criminal cases pending against him. This has helped in making this information available to the public.
(iii) The Election Commission has passed an order making it necessary for political parties to hold their organisational elections and file their Income-tax Returns.

Some of the suggestions made to reform the political parties.
(i) Law to regulate the internal affairs of political parties like maintaining a register of its members, to follow its own Constitution, to act as judge in case of party dispute, to hold open elections to the highest post.
(ii) It should be made mandatory for political parties to give one-third tickets to women candidates. Also there should be quota for women on the decision-making bodies of the party.
(iii) There should be State funding of elections. The Government should give money to parties to support their election expenses in kind (petrol, paper, telephone, etc.) or in cash on the basis of votes secured by the party in the previous election.

Q. 26. Describe any four points of importance of primary sector in the Indian economy. 4×1=4

Ans. Importance of Primary Sector:
(i) Primary Sector provides the basic needs of economy for food and mineral ores.
(ii) It produces some of the raw materials (like jute, cotton, coal extracted from mines) for the industrial sector.
(iii) The Primary Sector continued to be the largest employer in the economy even in the year 2000, the reason being that Secondary and Tertiary Sectors still do not create enough jobs.
(iv) The agricultural population in the Primary Sector provides a very large market of consumers for the Secondary Sector (for buying finished products like clothes, goods of daily need, fertilizers etc.)

Q. 27. What is currency? Explain any three features of modern Indian currency. 1+3=4

Ans. Money in the form of currency is used as a medium of exchange in transactions. Currency has different forms—paper notes and coins, cheques or drafts. In earlier times when paper notes and coins were not introduced, a variety of objects were used as money, such as grains, cattle, woven cloth, agricultural instruments etc.
Three main features of modern Indian currency:
(i) It is used in the form of paper notes and coins.
(ii) The modern currency has no use of its own as it is not made up of any precious metals but is accepted as a medium of exchange because it is authorised by the Government of the country.
(iii) As the law legalises the use of rupee as the medium of payment, it cannot be refused in settling transactions anywhere in India.

Q. 28. Analyse any two features each of formal sector loans and informal sector loans. 2+2=4

Ans. Loans can be obtained from Formal or Informal Sectors.
(i) Banks and cooperative societies fall under the formal sector. One can obtain loans from banks or cooperative societies.
(ii) In the informal sector money can be borrowed from a person, friend, relative, money lenders, traders, employers etc.
(iii) The Reserve Bank of India supervises the functioning of formal sources of loans. On the other hand, there is no organisation that checks or supervises the activities of lenders in the informal sector.
(iv) Bank loans require documentation and collateral (collateral is an asset such as land, building, vehicles, livestock, deposits with the bank etc.). This is used as a guarantee to the lender until the loan is paid back, whereas the loans from informal sources do not require any such collateral.
(v) Compared to formal lenders most of the informal lenders charge a much higher rate of interest on loans. Poor people are unable to obtain loans from formal sector because they do not have assets that can be used as collateral.

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