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Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [1] medium exam-ready
Which of the following pairs of developmental goals are MOST LIKELY to be conflicting? Options: (A) Building more dams for electricity vs. protecting tribal land from submersion (B) Opening more schools vs. improving literacy rates (C) Increasing wages vs. reducing poverty (D) Improving healthcare vs. reducing infant mortality
  1. A Building more dams for electricity vs. protecting tribal land from submersion
  2. B Opening more schools vs. improving literacy rates
  3. C Increasing wages vs. reducing poverty
  4. D Improving healthcare vs. reducing infant mortality
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 13:20 · grounding rag
Model Answer

(A) Building more dams for electricity vs. protecting tribal land from submersion

These are conflicting goals because industrialists want dams for electricity, but this submerges tribal land and disrupts their lives.

Source: What Development Promises — Different People, Different Goals, Chapter 1

Explanation

The textbook explicitly states this example: "to get more electricity, industrialists may want more dams. But this may submerge the land and disrupt the lives of people who are displaced – such as tribals." Options B, C, and D are complementary goals, not conflicting ones. Always look for the pair where one group's gain is another's loss.

Previous-year CBSE Grade 10 board exam questions, organised by subject and chapter, each with a model answer — free to read and print.