Population composition of Nepal class 8

 Long answer questions 

1. What is population composition? Explain in short about its importance in planning.
The distribution of population according to religion, sex, caste, occupation, age, area of settlement, mother tongue, literacy etc is called the population composition.
Population composition plays an important role in planning because it helps to know the number of males or females, their age groups, literacy rate, their occupation, their income level and health conditions, etc. that may help to utilise human resource, provide needed facilities and manage the population. It also help us in understanding the social, economic and demographic structures of population.

2. What is literacy? What should we do to increase literacy in Nepal?
Literacy means the ability to read and write.
What should we do to increase literacy in Nepal?
For increasing the number of educated individual in Nepal , the following points should be brought into effect.

• Providing people with basic needs such as food, shelter, clothes is the first thing to do. To be honest people can live without education but living without above mentioned needs is impossible.After the fulfillment of basic needs is only when people will think about education.

• Brain drain is also another reason. The well educated people who know the importance of knowledge are going away in the quest to utilize their knowledge in the outer world. And only few educated people are left to change the education system which makes the work difficult. Utilization of the educated people is very important in my view.

• People in the rural areas of Nepal often think education as a waste of time and money. To make people realize the actual value of education awareness programs, dramas, plays can be organized. People often live studying because of in ability to buy materials, donating of books, pencils and other material may be a great step.

• For me , education is not about going to a school 8 hours a day. For me education is about learning rather reading . Seminars, conference, these are important way from which people can be educated. Organizing camps time to time where people are taught various things which can be applied in their daily life is very important. And if people are considering degree as education , then providing a degree for every program they participate in will be useful.

• Internet can be a means to educate people but this is a little tough as many people don’t have access to internet. But other forms of media such as radios, Televisions , Newspaper can be used . A channel can be opened where people are provided with essential knowledge every now and then.

If people would word hand in hand to educate their community, it is not very difficult to increase the literacy rate.

3. How is the status of population composition by occupation of Nepal in rural and urban area? Explain.
Status of occupation in rural areas is lower by population composition than urban areas because in rural areas, there is is lack of job opportunities and facilities of health and education so, many people in-migrate to urban areas in search of job opportunities and facilities of health and education. Also many people in urtban areas only involve in agricultural activities but in urban areas different types ofjobs and occupation done by people is seen here.
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4. Write a short note on:
a. The status of literacy in Nepal.
The literacy rate of Nepal is 65.9% average with male being 75.1% and female being 57.4% . As per the statistics the literacy rate is quite low yet every year this keeps on increasing as people are valuing education a lot more.

b. The status of population composition by occupation in Nepal.
Status of occupation in rural areas is lower by population composition than urban areas because in rural areas, there is is lack of job opportunities and facilities of health and education so, many people in-migrate to urban areas in search of job opportunities and facilities of health and education. Also many people in urtban areas only involve in agricultural activities but in urban areas different types ofjobs and occupation done by people is seen here.