CBSE 6 Social Science Chapter 3 What is Government Notes

What is Government Notes

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A government is an organization that makes decisions and implements actions for the welfare of a country and its citizens.

Example: Government fixes price of onion. Says no shortage in the market, detailed plan to tackle foods soon, says Government, etc.

The Government look after the development of the country. It decides about where to build roads and schools, or how to reduce the price of onions when they get too expensive or ways to increase the supply of electricity.
The government also takes action on many social issues, for example it has several programs to help the poor.
It does other important things such as running postal and railway services.
The government also has the job of protecting the boundaries of the country and maintaining peaceful relations with other countries.
It is responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities. When there are natural disasters like the tsunami or an earthquake it organises aid and assistance for the affected people.
Courts are also part of the government. the court to resolve quarrels between the citizens of the country.

The local level: When the Government works in your village, town, or locality, it is called local level.
The State level: When the Government works that covers an entire state like Haryana or Assam, it is called state level.
The national level: When the Government works that relates to the entire country, it is called national level.

The government makes laws and everyone who lives in the country has to follow these.
The government has the power to make decisions, similarly it has the power to enforce its decisions.
Example: there is a law that says that all persons driving a motor vehicle must have a license. Any person caught driving a vehicle without a license can either be jailed or fined a large sum of money.

Democratic: There are many types of governments. The most popular type of government that we see around us is the democratic government.
In a democratic government, people elect the leaders who would govern the nation.
The merit of democratic government is that the government has to explain its actions and defend its decisions to the people.

Monarchy: Another form of government is monarchy. The monarch (king or queen) has the power to make decisions and run the government.
The monarch may have a small group of people to discuss matters with, but the final decision-making power remains with the monarch. Unlike in a democracy, kings and queens do not have to explain their actions or defend the decisions they take.

India is a democracy country. This achievement is the result of a long and eventful struggle of the Indian people.
In democracy the people have the power to elect their leaders, Thus, the country is ruled by the person that is elected in the majority. Several countries like India have faced similar challenges and have become a democracy.
India was not democracy from beginning there was a time when governments did not allow women and the poor to participate in elections.
In their earliest forms governments allowed only men who owned property and were educated, to vote. This meant that women, the poor, the property-less and the uneducated were not allowed to vote.

Votes for Women” refers to the women’s suffrage movement, which got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women’s suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means right to vote.
The suffragette demanded the right to vote for all women and to get their demands heard they chained themselves to railings in public places. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes, and they had to be fed by force.
American women got the right to vote in 1920 while women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men some years later, in 1928.