Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Rise of Popular Movements

Question:

The given political outline Map of India shows six places marked as A, B, C, D, E and F. Choose the correct 'alphabet' from the options based on the following information.

Fish workers from which state took the main responsibility of mobilising fellow workers, including women workers from other States with the coming of policies of economic liberalisation in and around the mid ’eighties?

Options:

A

B

D

F

Correct Answer:

F

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - F

The point F on the map is Kerala.

With the coming of policies of economic liberalisation in and around the mid ’eighties, these organisations were compelled to come together on a national level platform of the NFF or National Fishworkers’ Forum. Fish workers from Kerala took the main responsibility of mobilising fellow workers, including women workers from other States. Work of the NFF consolidated when in 1991 it fought its first legal battle with the Union government successfully.