PSEB SS Geography case studies
PSEB SS Geography · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Punjab School Education Board Senior Secondary Geography paper is the Class 12 geography examination conducted by the Punjab School Education Board, a body that "came into existence through a legislative enactment in November 1969 for the development and promotion of school education in the state of Punjab." Candidates reach it after completing Class 11 under the Board, either through regular affiliated schools or through the Board's Open School route, and it is taken by students who need a Class 12 qualification for university admission, teacher training, or state employment. The syllabus is organised into two halves: Fundamentals of Human Geography, covering population, migration, settlements, economic activities and transport, and India: People and Economy, applying those concepts to Indian population, resources, agriculture, industry and transport. The PSEB SS Geography case studies are 5 cases and about 4,511 words.
1Two Blocks, One Budget: Reading Human Development Beyond Income
The district planning committee has ₹4.0 crore for a single block-level package and must choose between two blocks whose six-year data are on the table. Ranipur block: per capita income ₹1.42 lakh, the highest in the district, driven by a grain mandi and remittances from Gulf-bound workers; female literacy 54%; infant mortality 38 per 1,000 live births; life expectancy 66 years; one primary health centre for 45,000 people.
880 words, about 4 min2Basian's Remittances: Is Emigration Development or Decline?
Basian, a village of 1,850 people in the Doaba region, has changed shape in fifteen years. Of its men aged 20–35, 34% are abroad or working in Delhi and Ludhiana.
860 words, about 4 min3The 'Demographic Dividend District': Fact or Brochure?
A district of 11.2 lakh people has an age structure of 0–14: 31%, 15–59: 61%, and 60+: 8%. Every year about 12,500 young people turn 18 and enter the labour market.
906 words, about 5 min4The Paddy Lock-In: Groundwater, Free Power and a ₹7,000 Incentive
In a canal-and-tube-well block of 22,000 hectares in central Punjab, 92% of cropped area is under paddy and wheat. The block has 4,100 tube wells, almost all electric, and farmers pay no marginal cost for power.
928 words, about 5 min5Nine Million Litres a Day: Relocate the Dyeing Cluster or Treat It in Place?
A walled-city cluster of 140 dyeing and tanning units, 60% of them employing fewer than ten workers, discharges about 9 million litres a day of untreated effluent into a drain that meets the river 14 km downstream. A city water-supply intake lies 25 km further down.
937 words, about 5 min