Class 07 Civics NCERT

Universal adult franchise and is an essential aspect of all democracies. The idea of universal adult franchise is based on the idea of equality because it states that every adult in a country, irrespective of their wealth and the communities she/he belongs to, has one vote.

Health means our ability to remain free of illness and injuries. In order to prevent and treat illnesses we need appropriate healthcare facilities such as health centres, hospitals, laboratories for testing, ambulance services, blood banks, etc., that can provide the required care and services that patients need.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are elected by the people. They then become members of the legislative assembly and also form the government.

Societies make clear distinctions between boys and girls. This begins from a very young age. In most societies, the roles men and women play or the work they do, are not valued equally.

Because many people believe in the stereotypes, many girls do not get the same support that boys do to study and train to become doctors and engineers.

Media describes the various ways through which we communicate in society. Because media refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from a phone call to the evening news on TV can be called media.

A weekly market is so called because it is held on a specific day of the week. Weekly markets do not have permanent shops. Traders set up shops for the day and then close them up in the evening.

Cultivation of cotton requires high levels of inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides and the farmers have to incur heavy expenses on account of these. Most often, the small farmers need to borrow money to meet these expenses.