Class 8 Social Science Public Facilities Exam Notes

Class 8 Social Science Public Facilities Exam Notes. Please refer to the examination notes which you can use for preparing and revising for exams. These notes will help you to revise the concepts quickly and get good marks.

Covers the following topics:

1. Water and the people of Chennai
2. What as part of the fundamental right to life
3. Public Facilities
4. The Governments Role
5. Water Supply to Chennai : It is Available to All                                                   
6. In Search of Alternative     

Water And The People Of Chennai

Some Examples :

1. Senior government officials live in Anna Nagar, Chennai. area looks lush and green with lawns maintained by a generous spraying a water tanker is easily arranged for his house of water. Bungalows here have tap water for major part of the day. On days when the water supply is inadequate, a water tanker is easily arranged for there houses.
2. Like most areas of the city apartments in Mylapore suffers from water shortage. This area gets municipal water once in two days. A private borewell meets some of the residents’ water needs. Borewell water is, however, brackish so the residents use it in their toilets and for washing. For other uses, water is purchased from tankers. One spends up to Rs 500-600 per month on buying water from the tankers. For drinking water, residents have installed water purification systems in their homes.
3. People who  lives on rent on the first floor of a house in Madipakkam and gets water once in four days. For drinking, these people buys bottled water.
4. Many people work as a domestic help in Said a pet and lives in the nearby slum. They pay a rent of Rs 650 for the hutment, which has neither a bathroom nor a tap connection. For 30 such hutments there is a common tap at one corner, in which water comes from a borewell for 20 minutes twice daily. A family gets to fill a maximum of three buckets within this time. The same water is used for washing and drinking. In summer, the flow becomes a trickle, so that one family gets water only at the cost of another. People have to wait long hours for water tankers.

Water As Part Of The Fundamental Right To Life

1. Water is essential for life and for good health. Not only is it necessary for us to be able to meet our daily needs but safe drinking water can prevent many water-related diseases.
2. India has one of the largest number of cases of diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera. Over 1,600 Indians, most of them children below the age of five, reportedly die everyday because of water-related diseases. These deaths can be prevented if people have access to safe drinking water.
3. The Constitution of India recognises the right to water as being a part of the Right to Life under Article 21. This means that it is the right of every person, whether rich or poor, to have sufficient amounts of water to fulfil his/her daily needs at a price that he/she can afford. In other words, there should be universal access to water.
4. There have been several court cases in which both the High Courts and the Supreme Court have held that the right to safe drinking water is a Fundamental Right.
5. More recently, in 2007, the Andhra Pradesh High Court restated this while hearing a case based on a letter written by a villager of Mahbubnagar district on the contamination of drinking water. The villager’s complaint was that a textile company was discharging poisonous chemicals into a stream near his village, contaminating ground water, which was the source for irrigation and drinking water. The judges directed the Mahbubnagar district collector to supply 25 litres of water to each person in the village.

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