Consider the following statements about forests : A. ‘Torang’ means forest in…
2023
Consider the following statements about forests :
A. ‘Torang’ means forest in Kuduk language.
B. The Village Council (Panchayat) in Jharkhand decides which family will get how much land for farming, by lottery.
C. The Right to Forest Act, 2007 gives the rights to people who have been living in the forest for at least 15 years.
D. About three-fourth people in Mizoram are linked to the forests.
The correct statements are :
Answer: D. A and D — Concept — A "which statements are correct" item is settled statement by statement, never as a block: each claim is tested on its own against the source, and…
- A.
B and C
- B.
A and C
- C.
A and B
- D.
A and D
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Correct answer: D
Concept — A "which statements are correct" item is settled statement by statement, never as a block: each claim is tested on its own against the source, and the key is the combination that names every accurate claim and no inaccurate one. In questions on forests and forest-dwelling communities three details usually carry the weight — the community’s own word for the forest, the State to which a particular customary practice belongs, and the exact figure written into a law or a survey. A sentence can read perfectly familiar and still be false because one State name has been swapped or one number altered.
Application — the four statements checked one at a time against NCERT Class 5 EVS "Looking Around", Chapter 20 "Whose Forests?":
Statement | What the source records | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
‘Torang’ means forest in the Kuduk language | Kuduk (Kurukh) is the language of the Oraon community of Jharkhand, and in it the forest is called ‘Torang’. | Accurate |
A village council in Jharkhand allots farming land to families by lottery | The chapter records this customary practice for Mizoram, where the Village Council decides by drawing lots how much land each family gets. It is not attributed to Jharkhand. | Not accurate — the State is swapped |
The 2007 forest-rights law covers those living in the forest for at least 15 years | The chapter states that the law gives rights to people who have been living in the forest for at least 25 years. | Not accurate — the figure is altered |
About three-fourths of the people of Mizoram are linked to the forests | The chapter records that roughly three-fourths of the people of Mizoram are connected with the forests. | Accurate |
Cross-check — each failing statement fails on exactly one swapped detail: the lottery-based allotment of farmland belongs to Mizoram rather than Jharkhand, and the residence bar in the forest-rights law is twenty-five years rather than fifteen. Restore either detail and the sentence becomes true, which is precisely what makes both of them attractive distractors. Only the Kuduk-language statement and the three-fourths-of-Mizoram statement survive the test, so the correct combination is A and D.