Chapter 20 Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 10 Social Science Solutions Chapter 20 Sanitation and Solid Waste Management.

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Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 10 Social Science Solutions Chapter 20 Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

Multiple Choice Questions
Question 1.
Which of the following generates garbage?
(A) Human beings only
(B)cleanliness None of these none of these
(C) Industries and factories only
(D) All of these

Question 2.
Indian culture gives importance to
(A) food
(B) rest
(C) feasting
(D) cleanliness

Question 3.

Solid waste management is based on
(A) 2R’s
(B) 3R’s
(C) 4R’s
(D) None of these

Question 4.
Swatch Bharat Mission of Government (SBMG) is related to
(A) cities
(B) slums
(C) villages
(D) None of these

Question 5.
Solid waste management programme is limited to
(A) cities
(B) villages
(C) backward areas
(D) None of these

Question 6.
Urban bodies have handed over the solid waste management work to
(A) representatives of people
(B) Board of Directors
(C) tehsildars
(D) Sanitary Inspectors

Question 7.
Which of the following is badly affected from open defecation?
(A) Pests
(B) Clothes
(C) Houses
(D) Health

Question 8.
The greenhouse gas is
(A) Carbon dioxide
(B) Nitrogen
(C) Oxygen
(D) cyanide

Answer:
1. (D)
2. (D)
3. (B)
4. (C)
5. (A)
6. (D)
7. (D)
8. (A)

Road Safety Education Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Why is cleanliness essential for human life?
Answer:
Cleanliness is necessary for good health.

Question 2.
When was education on cleanliness started?
Answer:
1st April, 1999

Question 3.
What are the problems faced by the most density populated regions?
Answer:
Accumulation of garbage and sanitation is a problem.

Question 4.
Which insect spreads dirt around us?
Answer:
Insects like flies and mosquitoes spread disease.

Question 5.
Give the limitation of solid waste management.
Answer:
Systematic collection and Recycling of garbage is a problem.

Question 6.
What is household garbage?
Answer:
Garbage collected from houses.

Question 7.
What are dangerous wastes?
Answer:
Chemical wastes and radioactive wastes.

Question 8.
What is called botanical food?
Answer:
Food obtained from plant sources is called botanical food.

Road Safety Education Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Why is cleanliness important in human life?
Answer:
Children and elderly may suffer from many diseases due to garbage all around us. Untreated polluted water and accumulation of garbage can cause following health hazards:

1. Drinking polluted water
2. Food items being polluted e.g. fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.
3. Water being polluted from bathing and means of entertainment
4. Spread of pests which carry diseases.
5. Cleanliness is important to reduce diseases and to maintain a healthy life.

Question 2.
Explain the meaning of sanitation as per the World Health Organisation.
Answer:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has defined sanitation in several ways, such as:

1. For sanitation, people are needed to keep toilet neat and clean; to use safety measures or means to keep water free from dirt.
2. The sanitation refers to provisions, facilities and maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as safe disposal of human urine and farces.

Question 3.
In how many types is sanitation divided?
Answer:
Types of sanitation are as follows:

1. Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): It is targeted at removing the bad practice of open defecation.
2. Dry Sanitation: It refers to dry toilets. A dry toilet involves negligible or nill consumption of water.
3. Ecological Sanitation: Simply it is deeply related to safe agricultural measures and sanitation.
4. Environmental Sanitation: It refers to activities aimed at improving or maintaining the standard of basic environment conditions affecting the well-being of the people.
5. Improved and Unimproved Sanitation: It refers to traditional methods of management of human excreta.
6. Lack of Sanitation: Generally, it is related to lack of toilets, which every human uses willingly. It is seriously related to open defecation and public health topic.
7. Sustainable Sanitation: It refers to a series of all-round sanitation which can help in sustainable use of resources. Recycling is an important aspect of this type of sanitation.

Question 4.
What are the objectives of solid waste management programme?
Answer:
Solid waste management refers to treatment of solid waste without any side effect on environment and health, disposal, reuse, recycle and arrangement of power generating processes. The Central Government has made strict rules on solid waste management. In new rules, it is the duty of the state:

1. To provide training of solid waste management in local sectors of rural and urban regions
2. To make arrangement of suggestions and resources
3. To provide benefits of different works related to solid waste management and its uses.

Question 5.
What are measures taken for solid waste management?
Answer:
Following measures are taken for solid waste management:

1. In cities, sanitation workers collect garbage from houses, hospitals and other places.
2. It is the duty of the urban bodies to take this garbage on waste disposal centers through trucks, tractor trolley and horse carts.
3. At waste disposal centers, garbage is distributed in different categories as per their origin, e.g. household waste, industrial waste, construction waste and waste of business centers.
4. This waste is separated according to the ingredients contained in; such as organic waste, inorganic waste, plastic bottles, metals, paper, battery, dangerous things – poisonous material, infection, inflammable material, explosive material, radioactive material, infection-causing material, etc.

Question 6.
What are the advantages of solid waste management?
Answer:
Following are the advantages of solid waste management:

1. Fire accidents, spread of rats, disease-causing pests or germs and stray animals
   can be kept under control.
2. Disease will be kept under control, improvement in public health, working capacity will increase, less load of patients on hospital, etc.
3. Extraction of low toxic materials, prevention of water pollution.
4. Cheap and best botanical fertilizer will get, agriculture capacity and production will increase.
5. Cheap energy is obtained for production of electricity.
6. Many items can be produced from recycled raw materials.
7. Increase in employment opportunities.
8. Costly metals can be recovered from garbage.

Road Safety Education Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
What does sanitation refer to?
Answer:
Cleanliness

Question 2.
Give the full form of CLTS.
Answer:
Community Led Total Sanitation

Question 3.
Give the full form of JNNURM.
Answer:
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

Question 4.
What is the full form of WHO?
Answer:
World Health Organisation

Question 5.
Name two insects which spread many diseases.
Answer:
Mosquito and Housefly

Question 6.
Name any two diseases which are spread by mosquitoes.
Answer:
Malaria and Dengue

Question 7.
Name any one disease which is spread by housefly.
Answer:
Cholera

Question 8.
What is the new name for Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan?
Answer:
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Question 9.
Who coined the term ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?
Answer:
Sri Narendra Modi

Question 10.
What is dry sanitation?
Answer:
It refers to dry toilets. A dry toilet involves negligible or nill consumption of water.

Road Safety Education Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Describe the process of incineration.
Answer:
It is a normal thermal process. It involves the combustion of waste material in the presence of oxygen. This combustion process converts wastes into carbon dioxide, water vapor and ash. This treatment method is commonly used as a means of recovering energy for electricity or heating. It lessens transportation costs, reduces waste volume and decreases harmful green house gas (methane) emissions.

Question 2.
What is the meaning of Recycling wastes?
Answer:
Recycling refers to the use of waste as useful raw material and act to reduce
the volume of waste. Recycling helps to utilise the waste material.

Question 3.
What do you mean by Sustainable ‘Sanitation?
Answer:
It refers to a series of all-round sanitation. In this, on the basis of experience, measures to reuse excreta, and transportation of polluted water, treatment, reuse and disposal are included, which become important for safety of environment and natural resources.

Question 4.
According to WHO, what is the meaning of sanitation?
Answer:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has defined the sanitation in several ways, such as :

Question 5.
For sanitation, people are needed to keep toilet neat and clean; to use safety measures or means to keep water free from dirt.
Answer:
The sanitation refers to provisions, facilities and maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as safe disposal of human urine and faeces.

Question 6.
List the health hazards which can be caused by poor sanitation.
Answer:
Following health hazards are caused by poor sanitation:

1. Drinking polluted water
2. Food items being polluted e.g. fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.
3. Water being polluted from bathing and means of entertainment
4. Spread of pests which carry diseases.

Question 7.
What do you understand by
Community Led Total Sanitation?
Answer:
It is related to the process of excreta in open carelessly by villagers. The objective of CLTS is to aware villagers about available facilities to stop excreta in open.

Question 8.
What do you understand by Environmental Sanitation?
Answer:
It refers to activities aimed at improving or maintaining the standard of basic environment conditions affecting the well-being of the people. It includes solid waste management, water and treatment of polluted water, treatment of industrial waste and control of noise pollution.

Road Safety Education Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Explain few solid waste disposable methods.
Answer:
Solid waste management process involves the following:

1. In cities, sanitation workers collect garbage from houses, hospitals and other places.
2. It is the duty of the urban bodies to take this garbage on waste disposal centers through trucks, tractor trolley and horse carts.
3. At waste disposal centers, garbage is distributed in different categories as per their origin, e.g. household waste, industrial waste, construction waste and waste of business centers.
4. This waste is separated according to the ingredients contained in; such as organic waste, inorganic waste, plastic bottles, metals, paper, battery, dangerous things – poisonous material, infection, inflammable material, explosive material, radioactive material, infection-causing material, etc.

Question 2.
Write about the Swatch Bharat Mission of government.
Answer:
Since rural sanitation is a subject of state, but to boost the efforts of the state, the central government started the programme in 1986.
1. With a few modifications on 1 April 1999 it was named as TSC (Total Sanitation Campaign).Later it is known as NBC (Nirmal Bharat Campaign). Its aim is to convert rural India in this, with community satisfaction attitude and clean all rural families completely till 2022.

2. On 2nd October 2014, it got a new named as ‘Clean India Mission’ (Rural). Its objective is to achieve an India free from open defecation by providing toilet facility to all people in village penchants through proper waste management techniques till 2 October 2019.

Question 3.
What are the advantages of Solid Waste Management?
Answer:
Following are the advantages of solid waste management:

1. Fire accidents, spread of rats, disease- causing pests or germs and stray animals can be kept under control.
2. Disease will be kept under control, improvement in public health, working capacity will increase, less load of patients on hospital, etc.
3. Extraction of low toxic materials, prevention of water pollution.
4. Cheap and best botanical fertilizer will get, agriculture capacity and production will increase.
5. Cheap energy is obtained for production of electricity.
6. Many items can be produced from recycled raw materials.
7. Increase in employment opportunities.
8. Costly metals can be recovered from garbage.

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