Question
1: What are the advantages to foreign companies in setting up production in
India?
Answer:
1. Availability of skilled workforce at a cheap rate.
2. Cost savings by means of lower safety measures and poor facilities
for the workers and employees.
3. To take advantage of weaker laws.
4. Availability of space at their choice.
5. Availability of good quality raw materials at low rates.
6. Government incentives.
Question
2: How can laws ensure that markets work in a manner that is fair? Give two
examples to support your answer.
Answer: Law can ensure that markets work in a manner that is fair by
ensuring the enforcement of the law in letter and spirit.
Law against
hoarding and black marketing must be enforced in such a way that hard punishment is given to the violators of the law and the hoarded goods.
Anti-Child
Labour Act must be enforced, not a single child must be allowed to work in
shops, tea stalls and restaurants.
Question 3: Imagine
yourself to be a worker working in a chemical factory, which has received
orders from the government to move to a different site 100 kms away from the
present location. Write about how your life would change? Read our responses in
the classroom.
Answer: My life would
change drastically.
There will be no pollution.
Wages would increase.
Housing facilities would be provided.
Some problems would come initially to be settled at a new place.
Employer would pay more attention to the workers.
4 Do you think the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got justice?
Discuss.
Answer
No, the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy are still fighting for justice.
At first, the company which owned the pesticide factory- Union Carbide (UC) refused to accept responsibility.
Answer
No, the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy are still fighting for justice.
At first, the company which owned the pesticide factory- Union Carbide (UC) refused to accept responsibility.
The UC got away after paying a bare minimum compensation to the
survivors of this tragedy.
Even after 24 years the survivors are still fighting
for justice, for safe drinking water, for health-care facilities and jobs for
the poisoned by UC.
Their cases are still pending in numerous courts.
5. What do we mean when we speak of law enforcement? Who is responsible
for enforcement? Why is enforcement so important?
Answer
Law enforcement implies the government's responsibility as lawmaker and enforcer, to ensure obedience to its laws by everyone within the State that it governs.
Answer
Law enforcement implies the government's responsibility as lawmaker and enforcer, to ensure obedience to its laws by everyone within the State that it governs.
It is the responsibility of the government to ascertain that laws are
not violated by anyone.
if foreign companies are allowed to maintain low working
conditions, then this interferes with the Fundamental Right of the Right to
Life, of a worker. Hence, enforcement is necessary to protect the people.
6.
How was environment treated earlier? What has been the change in perception?
Discuss.
Answer
Earlier the environment was treated as a 'free' entity and any industry or even an individual could pollute the air and water without any restrictions since there were no laws in this regard.
In the recent years and particularly the Bhopal gas tragedy, there has been an increasing awareness among all that a clean environment is a public facility that cannot be destroyed merely for industrial development.
Answer
Earlier the environment was treated as a 'free' entity and any industry or even an individual could pollute the air and water without any restrictions since there were no laws in this regard.
In the recent years and particularly the Bhopal gas tragedy, there has been an increasing awareness among all that a clean environment is a public facility that cannot be destroyed merely for industrial development.
The courts also gave a number of
judgments upholding the right to a healthy environment.
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