BECC-111 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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INDIAN ECONOMY-I
Tutor Marked Assignments
Course Code: BECC-111
Assignment Code: BECC-111/AST/TMA/2025-26

Section A Long Answer Questions (word limit-500 words) 2×20=40 marks

1. How is development different from growth? Explain various approaches to development.
2. What are the major factors that have been taken into account in the approaches to estimate poverty in India? In what way they have changed over time?

Section B Medium Answer Questions (word limit-250 words) 3×10=30 marks

3. How is ‘social progress’ defined? What is the relative position of India in respect of Social Progress Index?
4. Define inequality distinguishing it between ‘inequality in outcome’ and ‘inequality in opportunity’.
5. At the time of independence, what was the extent of dependence on agriculture and what was its share of contribution to the economy?

Section C Short Answer Questions (word limit-100 words) 5X6 marks=30 marks

6. When does a country signifies to have entered a phase of ‘demographic dividend’? What are its implications for economic planning?
7. How is Human Capital defined? How is Human Development different from Human Capital?
8. Which three factors from the ‘Demand Side’ influences the government’s decision to spend more on healthcare? Why?
9. Would you say that the expansion in the education sector has kept pace with the requirements of the economy? Why?
10. Is ‘absolute poverty’ different from ‘relative poverty’? How?