Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

Read the passage below and answer the following question.

The rapid growth in urbanisation shows that the town or city has been acting as a magnet for the rural population. People go to urban areas in search of work. Rural-to-urban migration has also been accelerated by the continuous decline of common property resources like ponds, forests and grazing lands. The city may also be preferred for social reasons, specially the relative anonymity it offers. It allows the poorer sections of the socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work that they would not be able to do in the village. For the socially oppressed groups like the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, this may offer some partial protection from the daily humiliation they may suffer in the village where everyone knows their caste identity. Mass transit and mass communication are briding the gap between rural and urban areas. Today the rural areas are more closely integrated into the consumer market. Agriculture used to be by far the largest contributor of the country's total economic production. Today it contributes only about one-fourth of the gross domestic product. Rural people are increasingly engaged in non-farm rural occupations like transport services, business enterprises or craft manufacturing. If they are close enough, then they may travel daily to the nearest urban centre to work while continuing to live in the village.

Which one of the following is not a common property resource?

Options:

Ponds

Forests

Grazing land

Agricultural land

Correct Answer:

Agricultural land

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Agricultural land

Agricultural land is not typically considered a common property resource. It is privately owned or collectively owned by individuals or entities and is used primarily for agricultural purposes. In contrast, ponds, forests, and grazing lands are examples of common property resources, which are typically managed and used collectively by a community or group of people.