LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – SOCIAL WORK
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
SW 4952 – URBAN COMM. DEVELOPMENT
Date : 23-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
Section-A
(Answer ALL the questions not exceeding 50 words each) (10X2=20)
- What is an Urban area?
- What are the recent trends in urban community development?
- What is crime?
- Define Poverty.
- What are the four characteristics of urbanism?
- What is frictional unemployment?
- Enumerate the classification of urban places.
- Expand a. UBSP b. NSS NCOP d. JNNURM
- What are the problems of the domestic workers?
- What are the forms of Urban Local Government?
Section –B
(Answer any FOUR questions not exceeding 300 words each) (4X10=40)
- Explain the theories of Urbanisation with suitable examples.
- Write a brief note on the Urban Development Policy.
- What is displacement? Explain the types and propose remedial measures for the rehabilitation of displaced people.
- Write a short note on Urban environment, sanitation and health situation in urban place.
- Explain the Characteristics of Urban life?
- Write a brief note on C.M.D.A.
Section C
(Answer any TWO questions not exceeding 600 words each) (2×20=40)
- Discuss the problems of urban youth today and propose various remedial measures to optimize their capacity for social change.
- ‘Unorganized Labour is the blood vein of urban poor’. Discuss the statement with special
reference to various types and roles of unorganized sector in urban places.
- Critically analyse any one of theories of slum and state its relevance today.
- Critically analyse the Slum Clearance and Improvement Act, 1971.