Observe the table (Fig. 10.5). Highlight the functions and responsibilities that affect your life the most. All India / National level State level Judiciary Supreme Court of India High Court Legislature Two houses — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — formulate national laws One State Assembly or Vidhan Sab

First, here is the table of Fig. 10.5 on page 157 in full , so that you can mark it. Remember the book’s own caution — “the list is not exhaustive”. Organ All India / National level State level Judiciary Supreme Court of India High Court Legislature Two houses — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — formulate national laws One State Assembly or Vidhan Sabha (most States have a single assembly; a few States have two) Executive Central Government — led by the President of India (nominal head and Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces), Prime Minister as the executive head State Government — led by the Governor (nominal head), Chief Minister as the executive head Functions and responsibilities of the Executive Defence · Foreign Affairs · Atomic Energy · Communications · Currency · Inter-state Commerce · Education · Formulation of National Policies Police, law and order · Adaptation and implementation of laws made by the Central government at the State level · Public health · Education · Agriculture · Irrigation · Local government Now the highlighting. Choose the entries that touch your day, and say in one line how. A sample: Entry I would highlight Level How it affects my life — sample answer Education Both Central and State My school, my teachers, my textbook, my mid-day meal, my board examination. This is the single entry that affects me most Public health State The health centre where I was vaccinated, and the hospital my family goes to Police, law and order State The traffic pol

NCERT Solutions for Class 6th Social Science Chapter 10 Three Levels of Government

Q1.

Observe the table (Fig. 10.5). Highlight the functions and responsibilities that affect your life the most.

	All India / National level	State level
Judiciary	Supreme Court of India	High Court
Legislature	Two houses — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — formulate national laws	One State Assembly or Vidhan Sabha (Note that most States have a single assembly; a few States have two)
Executive	Central Government — led by the President of India (nominal head and Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces), Prime Minister as the executive head	State Government — led by the Governor (nominal head), Chief Minister as the executive head
Functions and responsibilities of the Executive (the list is not exhaustive)	Defence · Foreign Affairs · Atomic Energy · Communications · Currency · Inter-state Commerce · Education · Formulation of National Policies	Police, law and order · Adaptation and implementation of laws made by the Central government at the State level · Public health · Education · Agriculture · Irrigation · Local government

Fig. 10.5, page 157.

Answer

First, here is the table of Fig. 10.5 on page 157 in full, so that you can mark it. Remember the book’s own caution — “the list is not exhaustive”.

Organ	All India / National level	State level
Judiciary	Supreme Court of India	High Court
Legislature	Two houses — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — formulate national laws	One State Assembly or Vidhan Sabha (most States have a single assembly; a few States have two)
Executive	Central Government — led by the President of India (nominal head and Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces), Prime Minister as the executive head	State Government — led by the Governor (nominal head), Chief Minister as the executive head
Functions and responsibilities of the Executive	Defence · Foreign Affairs · Atomic Energy · Communications · Currency · Inter-state Commerce · Education · Formulation of National Policies	Police, law and order · Adaptation and implementation of laws made by the Central government at the State level · Public health · Education · Agriculture · Irrigation · Local government

Now the highlighting. Choose the entries that touch your day, and say in one line how. A sample:

Entry I would highlight	Level	How it affects my life — sample answer
Education	Both Central and State	My school, my teachers, my textbook, my mid-day meal, my board examination. This is the single entry that affects me most
Public health	State	The health centre where I was vaccinated, and the hospital my family goes to
Police, law and order	State	The traffic police at the crossing outside school; being able to walk home safely
Agriculture and Irrigation	State	The canal and the seeds our family farm depends on — and the price of vegetables for everyone else
Local government	State subject	Water, streetlights, the drain, the park — everything within 200 metres of my house
Communications	Central	Phone and internet, and the post office
Currency	Central	Every note and coin, and the UPI payment my mother makes at the shop
Defence	Central	I do not see it daily, but it is why the country is safe enough for everything above to work

Notice one thing while you mark: Education appears in both columns. That is not a printing mistake — some matters are handled by both levels together. It is also why your school follows a State department’s rules and a national syllabus at the same time.

Q2.

Ask two or three adults about their connection or interaction with the government — at what levels does it take place and for what purpose?

Answer

Method. Choose adults with different kinds of work — for example a farmer, a shopkeeper and a salaried employee, or a homemaker, an auto driver and a teacher. Ask three questions only, and write the answers in a table. Do not ask about anyone’s income or private matters.

In the last one year, for what did you have to deal with any government office?
Was it a local office, a State office, or a Central one?
Which organ was it really — someone making a rule, someone carrying it out, or a court?

Sample answers (yours will differ — that is the point of the exercise):

Person	Purpose of the interaction	Level	Organ
A farmer	Land record correction; canal water schedule; buying subsidised seed; selling grain at the procurement centre	Local and State	Executive
A shopkeeper	Renewing the shop licence with the municipality; filing GST returns online	Local and Central	Executive
A salaried employee	Filing income tax; getting a passport; a provident fund claim	Central	Executive
A homemaker	Ration card, gas connection, the child’s school admission and scholarship form, a vaccination appointment	Local and State	Executive
An auto driver	Driving licence, vehicle fitness and permit, pollution certificate, a traffic challan	State, through the RTO and traffic police	Executive; the court if a challan is contested
Any voter	Voter ID, and voting in the panchayat or municipal, State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections	All three	Choosing the legislature — the only interaction in which the citizen decides

What almost every class discovers: nearly all day-to-day contact is with the executive — offices and officials who carry out laws. Contact with the legislature happens mainly on election day, and with the judiciary only when there is a dispute. That is a good discovery, because it shows why the one day of voting matters so much: it is the day on which citizens choose the people who make the rules that all those offices then apply.

Do it politely: take permission before writing anything down, and do not record names in your notebook — just ‘farmer’, ‘shopkeeper’, and so on. Thank each person at the end.

NCERT Solutions for Class 6th Social Science Chapter 10 Three Levels of Government — LET’S EXPLORE