Study the picture given below carefully and answer the following questions :

(i) The given picture refers to which country ? Name the continent where it is located. 59/5/1 14

(ii) Identify the two symbols in this picture which help in the identification of the country ?

(iii) What do these two symbols depict ?

Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following questions :

If the various governments take steps to check environmental degradation ...., these issues will have political consequences in that sense. Most of them are such that no single government can address them fully, hence they have become a part of ‘world politics’. Issues of environment and natural resources are political in another deeper sense.

(i) Identify any two of the present day environmental concerns.

(ii) In your opinion, which two principles can be adopted to check environmental degradation ?

(iii) Analyse any two ‘political’ consequences of environmental issues.

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Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following questions :

A review of the implementation of the agreements at the Earth Summit in Rio was undertaken by India in 1997. One of the key conclusions was that there had been no meaningful progress with respect to transfer of new and additional financial resources and environmentally-sound technology on concessional terms to developing nations. India finds it necessary that developed countries take immediate measures to provide developing countries with financial resources and clean technologies to enable them to meet their existing commitments under UNFCCC.

(i) What is the full form of UNFCCC ?

(ii) Highlight the existing commitments of the developing countries under UNFCCC.

(iii) Why do the developing countries want transfer of financial

resources and eco-friendly technology on concessional terms ?

Read the passage given below carefully and answer the following questions :

An ambitious developmental project was launched in the Narmada valley of central India in early eighties. The project consisted of 30 big dams, 135 medium sized and around 3,000 small dams to be constructed on the Narmada and its tributaries that flow across three states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya Pradesh were two of the most important and biggest, multi-purpose dams planned under the project. Narmada Bachao Anadolan, a movement to save Narmada, opposed the construction of these dams and questioned the nature of ongoing developmental projects in the country.

(i) Name the ambitious project launched in the Narmada valley.

(ii) Explain any two concerns raised by the activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan against this project.

(iii) Since its inception, why did the Narmada Bachao Andolan link its oppositions to this project with other larger issues ?

Note : The following questions are for the Visually Impaired Candidates only, in lieu of Question No. 20 :

(20.1) Premier Zhou Enlai and the then leader Deng Xiaoping belonged to which country ? What is the complete name of this country ?

(20.2) What was the main contribution of these two leaders in their country’s economic development ?

(20.3) Why is the little man shown in the picture trying to stop the dragon ?

In the given political outline map of India (on page 16), five States have been marked as A, B, C, D and E . Identify them on the basis of the information given below and write their correct names in your answer-book with the respective serial number of the information used and the concerned alphabet as per the following format :

(i) The State associated with Anti-Arrack Movement.

(ii) The State which saw movement for separate national existence.

(iii) The State where the Bodo and Karbi communities live.

(iv) The State where Longowal Accord was signed.

(v) The State which has a special status given by the Constitution of India.