NCERT Solutions for Class 5 EVS (Looking Around) Chapter 18 No Place for Us?

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Class : 5th
Subject : Environmental Studies
Chapter : 18
Chapter Name : No Place For Us?

Q1 Jatrya felt alone, even in a crowd of people. Have you ever felt like this?

Answer. Yes, once I got separated from my mother in a market for few minutes. Though there was a
huge crowd of people but still I was feeling all alone as I knew no one.

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Q2 Imagine how it feels to leave one’s own place and go far away to live in a new place?

Answer. It is a very difficult to leave one’s own place and live far away at a new place. This is because,
there is nobody with whom we can share our feelings, problems and other matters. Thus, it feels very
bad and sad to leave our own place.

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Q3 Why do you think families like that of Jatrya’s are coming to big cities?

Answer. The families like that of Jatriya often come to big cities due to poverty, to earn more money and
live a better life. There may also be many problems with them in the village. For example, sometimes
due to scantly rainfall there is not much profit from the farms, sometimes they are asked to leave their
villages by the government or private companies because of the construction of factories or dams etc.
Thus, they are forced to come to big cities.

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Q4 Have you seen any children (in your school or neighbourhood) who also go to work?

Answer. Yes, I have seen few children in my neighborhood who go to work.

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Q5 What kind of work do they do? Why do they have to work?

Answer. They have to do the following types of work:
(i) Fish catching and cleaning
(ii) Picking up the luggage of people at the bus or railway station
(iii) Kabadiwala (picking up rags from the houses or big dustbins)
(iv) Working as a servant in house or shops.
They have to work because of poverty. They belong to those families who are as poor that they don’t
have money even to eat the basic food. Thus, their children are forced to work.

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Q1 In Khedi village what all did children learn?

Answer. Children in Khedi village learnt the following:
(i) Dancing
(ii) Playing flute and dhol
(iii) Making vessels and other things from bamboo and clay.
(iv) Recognising birds and imitating their sounds etc.

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Q2 What do you learn from your elders?

Answer. I learn the following from my elders-
(i) To respect elders.
(ii) To sleep, wake up, study and play on time and in a proper routine.
(iii) To maintain love and affection with the friends and brothers and sisters.
(iv) To help in some household jobs.

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Q3 Jatrya learnt so many things in Khedi. How many of those would be useful for him in Mumbai?

Answer. Jatrya had learnt many things in Khedi. Out of these, he can use some of them to earn money in
Mumbai, such as:
Fish catching, selling goods in the market and playing dhol etc.

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Q4 Do you hear the sounds of birds everyday? Which ones?

Answer. Yes, I often hear the sounds of birds such as:
Guttar-Guttar of pigeon
Chi-Chi of sparrow
Kav-Kav of cow

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Q5 Can you imitate the sound of any bird? Show how.

Answer. I can imitate the sound of crow, pigeon, etc.

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Q6 What are some of the sounds that you hear everyday, but the people of Khedi may not be hearing?

Answer. Some of the sounds that we hear every day but the people of Khedi may not be hearing them
are:
Horns of vehicles.
Sound of trains
Sound of loudspeakers.

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Q7 Have you experienced silence? When and where?

Answer. Yes, I feel silence daily at night when I go for sleeping. At this time there is no sound at all. The
people, animals and birds are all sleeping. There is no vehicle on the roads as well. Thus, there is

complete silence.

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Q1 Many people in Jatrya’s village did not agree to move away from their land and forest. Why? They
had to leave even though they didn’t want to. Why?

Answer. Many people of Jatrya’s village did not want to leave their land and forest because – it was their
grandfather’s land and they had many old members associated with that place. But still they had to leave
from that place because they were ordered to leave the village by the government officials along with the
police. Moreover, they were promised that they will be shifted to a much better where there will be
electricity, water etc.

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Q2 In Khedi, how many people were there in Jatrya’s family? When he thought about his family who all
came to his mind?

Answer. There were three people in Jatrya’s family in Khedi. His father, mother and Jatrya himself.
When he thought about his family, he thought of his would be wife and would be children.

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Q3 Who all come to your mind when you think about your family?

Answer. When I think about my family, my grandparents, parents and brother come in my mind.

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Q4 Have you heard of people who don’t want to be moved from their old place? Talk about them.

Answer. Yes, my grandparents live in the village. They don’t want to leave their old place. They say it’s
their grandfather’s land and they have many sweet memories associated with that place, their farms and
their pet animals. Therefore, they do not want to come and live in the city.

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Q5 Do you know some people who have never been to school? Do you also know of any place where
there is no school?

Answer. Yes, our maid servant has never been to school. There is a small village in Rajasthan, where
there is no school.

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Q1 Think of the kinds of difficulties people have to face where a dam is being built.

Answer. People have to face many difficulties at the place where a dam is being built, such as:
(i) Their houses, farms etc. Are all destroyed.
(ii) They are promised to be given some compensation by the government but sometimes, they have to
face many difficulties in getting this compensation.
(iii) They are given new houses to live but they are not as good as were told to them. They have
electricity but it remains for few hours only. There are taps no water.
(iv) The other people treat the village people as poor, uneducated and inferior.

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Q2 Draw a picture of Khedi village and a picture of Jatrya's dream village. Discuss the differences
between them. Also look at the pictures your friends have drawn.

Answer.

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Q1 Was Sinduri like the village of Jatrya’s dreams?

Answer. No, Sinduri village not like the village of Jatriaya’s dreams.

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Q2 What difference did he find between Sinduri and his dream village?

Answer. The difference that he found in Sinduri village and his dream village is as follows:
(i) He thought that his house in the new village would have electricity, water in taps and all basis things.
But it was not so in Sinduri village. There was no electricity but it was just very difficult to pay the
heavy bills. There were taps but no water.
(ii) There was no place for keeping the animals.
(iii) They were given land for farming but it was not good for farming, it was filled with stones and
pebbles.
(iv) There was school, but the teacher did not pay attention to the children from Khedi village. These
children found it difficult to learn in a new language.
(v) There were doctors, but they were not available on time.
(vi) The people of Sinduri village also treated them as unwanted guests and found their language and
way of living strange and made fun of them.

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Q3 Have you ever been to anyone’s house as an ‘unwanted guest’? How did you feel?

Answer. When guests come to stay at our home for a few days, then we respect them. We arrange for
their meals, bedding and other basic requirements etc. We prepare their favourite food items. We also
take them to some good places to entertain them.

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Q4 What all does your family do, when you have guests at home for a few days?

Answer. When guests come to our home for a few days, we pay full attention and respect to them. We
take care that they have a comfortable stay. My mother makes special food for them so that they can
enjoy their stay. My father takes a day off to take them to some good places.

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Q1 What had Jatryabhai thought while moving to Mumbai? Did he find Mumbai as he had imagined?

Answer. Jatriyabhai though when they are being treated as unwanted guests so it is of no use of live in
Sunduri village. He was also not getting any goods facilities in this village. So, he decided to move to
Mumbai and thought here his children could study in a good school and will have a better future. No,
Mumbai was not as he has thought of. There was no place to stay for outsiders like Jatryabhai. It was
very difficult to find some work and earn money. The conditions were even worse, it was very hard for
him to pay for the food, house, medicines, school fees and even water was also to be purchased by
money. Even his small son, Sidya had to work to earn money.

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Q2 What kind of school do you think Jatrya’s children would be going to in Mumbai?

Answer. Jatrya’s children would be studying in a government school in Mumbai.

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Q1 Do you know of any family that has come to your town after having moved out of their place? Talk
to them and find out:
- From where have they come? Why did they have to come here?
- What kind of place did they live in there? How do they find this new place compared to the old one?
- Is their language and way of living any different from that of the people here? In what ways?
- Learn some words from their language and write them in your notebook.
- Do they know how to make some things that you cannot make? What?

Answer. Yes, I know few students in my school have come from a small village in Rajasthan. They were
asked to move from that place.
- They have come from a small village in Rajasthan. They were asked to leave that place by the
government officials because of the construction of a factory at that place.
- They used to live in a small village that was very beautiful, peaceful and simple. There were farms,
freely available water, animals and small schools. The environment was also not much polluted. As
compared to that old village, this new place, that is the city is very noisy, crowded, polluted. The people
have a different culture and way of talking. They do not get easily mixed up. Everything is a very
expensive; even they have to pay for the water. They are finding it very difficult to survive in this new
place.
- Yes, their language and way of living is very different from the people of this place. They used to speak
in Rajasthani language and their ways of talking in Hindi is also very difficult. Their way of living is
also very different. They used to prepare food on chulhas. They used to wear simple clothes, men used to
wear ‘dhoti-kurta’ and ‘pagri’ on the head and women used to wear ‘ghaghra-choli’. But here in the city
there is gas-stove for cooking, men wear shirts and paints and women wear suits, sarees, skirts etc.

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- Yes, they know making special things which I don’t know such as:
Making utensils and pitcher or other things out of clay. Bucket out of bamboo.

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Q2 Have you ever read or heard of a city slum being removed? How do you feel about this?

Answer. Yes, I have heard about a slum that was removed from the area near the Yamuna River. The
people living there had to face many difficulties as they were ordered to vacate that area immediately. I
felt very bad and pity for these people.

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Q3 People also shift from one place to another when they get transferred in their jobs? How do they feel
then?

Answer. Many times people have to shift from one place to another, when they get transferred in their
jobs. In this situation also they feel very bad and have to face many difficulties. They have to leave their
houses, schools, friends, neighbors. In the new place, again they have to search for a new good school,
have to adjust with the new people. But in this situation, at least they have a house to live and also since
they already have a job, so at least they have enough money to survive.

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Q1 Some people say that – “The city people do not create garbage. Cities are dirty because of the
slums.” How do you feel about this? Discuss and debate between yourselves

Answer. It is incorrect to say that city people do not create garbage. It is because slum’s this is because
in the cities are responsible for shifting the village people to the cities. They construct dams; factories
etc. in the villages and force the villagers to empty those places. The villagers are not provided proper
houses in the cities; they are just given small buts with no proper provision for toilet and bathing. As a
consequence, these poor people are forced to use the roads and drains for this purpose. This causes dirty
and foul smelling areas. So, actually the difficult situations in which they are forced to live are
responsible for this. On the other hand, the city people causes a lot of pollution due to the vehicles,
factories etc. Thus, the given statement is incorrect.

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Q1 Like Jatrya’s family, thousands of families come to stay in big cities for many different reasons. Do
you think their life may be better in a big city from what it was before? Imagine how they feel in a big
city.

Answer. When families like Jatrya’s come to stay in big cities, their life become very different from what
is was before. They have to face many problems in these big cities such as-
(i) They are not provided proper houses in the big cities; they are just given small hunts to stay with no
proper facility for bathing and toilet.
(ii) They have the provision of electricity but it remains for only sometime. Also, they have to pay the
electricity bills, which they cannot afford.
(iii) There are taps but with no waste. They have to pay for the water also.
(iv) They are not well qualified; therefore it is very difficult for them to get the good jobs. Even their
children also have to work.
(v) There are schools for the children, but it is very difficult for them to understand the new language.
Also the teacher does not pay much attention to them.

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