Identify the challenges for society as far as the adolescents of our country are concerned.
A. Lower age at marriage.
B. Illiteracy - particularly female illiteracy.
C. Low rate of maternal mortality of adolescent mothers.
D. Juvenile delinquency and committing crimes.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B and D only
A. Lower age at marriage. Correct. It is the first of the challenges named for the adolescents, the population aged 10-19 years.
B. Illiteracy - particularly female illiteracy. Correct. Illiteracy, female illiteracy in particular, is one of the challenges, along with school dropouts.
C. Low rate of maternal mortality of adolescent mothers. Incorrect. The challenge is the high rate of maternal mortality of adolescent mothers. A low rate would be good news, not a challenge. NTA turned the ‘high’ maternal mortality of adolescent mothers into ‘low’, and a worry suddenly looked like good news. One small word flipped the statement, so read every word before you tick.
D. Juvenile delinquency and committing crimes. Correct. Juvenile delinquency and the committing of crimes are the last of the adolescents’ challenges, after drug abuse and alcoholism.
NCERT (2025-26): “Regional Variation in Population Growth … An important aspect of population growth in India is the growth of its adolescents. At present the share of adolescents i.e., up to the age group of 10-19 years is about 20.9 per cent (2011), among which male adolescents constitute 52.7 per cent and female adolescents constitute 47.3 per cent. The adolescent population, though, regarded as the youthful population having high potentials, but at the same time they are quite vulnerable if not guided and channelised properly. There are many challenges for the society as far as these adolescents are concerned, some of which are lower age at marriage, illiteracy – particularly female illiteracy, school dropouts, low intake of nutrients, high rate of maternal mortality of adolescent mothers, high rate of HIV and AIDS infections, physical and mental disability or retardedness, drug abuse and alcoholism, juvenile delinquency and commitence of crimes, etc.…” |