Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

Read the passage given below and answer the following question .
National Socio-Demographic Goals for 2010
1.Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies and infrastructure.
2. Make school education up to the age of 14 years free and compulsory, and reduce dropouts at primary and secondary school levels to below 20 per cent for both boys and girls.
3. Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
4. Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100,000 live births.
5. Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases.
6. Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age.
7. Achieve 80 per cent institutional deliveries and 100 per cent deliveries by trained persons.
8. Achieve universal access to information/counselling, and services for fertility regulation and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
9. Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
10. Contain the spread of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and promote greater integration between the management of reproductive tract infections (RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the National AIDS Control Organisation.

Based on National Socio-Demographic Goals for 2010 choose the correct options.
1.Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies and infrastructure.
2. Make school education up to the age of 14 years free and compulsory, and reduce dropouts at primary and secondary school levels to above 20 per cent for both boys and girls.

Options:

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 or 2

Correct Answer:

1 only

Explanation:

Based on the National Socio-Demographic Goals for 2010, the correct option is 1 only.

Option 2 should be: Make school education up to the age of 14 years free and compulsory, and reduce dropouts at primary and secondary school levels to below 20 per cent for both boys and girls.