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✉️ Chapter 7: Carrier of Words • Check Your Understanding

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Check Your Understanding 5Critical Reflection 2Answer the Following Questions 5All Exercises 12
Q1

I Khetaram needs to submit information about himself for getting an identity card. While reading the text, fill up the following information sheet for Khetaram.

  • Name: Khetaram
  • Position: ________________
  • Employer: ________________
  • Official address: ________________
  • Mode of transport used: ________________
  • Key responsibilities: ________________
  • Name: Khetaram
  • Position: Gramin Dak Sewak (GDS) / Sole Postman
  • Employer: India Post (Department of Posts)
  • Official address: Somarad Branch Post Office, Barmer district, Rajasthan (near the Indo-Pakistan border)
  • Mode of transport used: On foot (walking across sand dunes)
  • Key responsibilities:
    • Delivering mail and money orders to remote hamlets (dhaanis)
    • Reading out letters to non-literate villagers
    • Drafting and writing replies for the villagers
    • Reaching out to rural depositors and facilitating postal services
Q2

II Discuss with your teacher.

  1. Why do you think Khetaram has taken up this challenging job?
  2. How do you think Khetaram would feel about taking up this challenging task every day?
  1. Answer: Khetaram lives in an arid desert region where famine is frequent and a single crop of bajra in a good year is not enough to feed his family of five. He took up this demanding job because the assured salary provides a vital livelihood that saves his family from starvation.
  2. Answer: Even though the job is physically exhausting due to the scorching heat and heavy load, Khetaram feels a deep sense of dignity, purpose, and dedication. He takes pride in being a vital link for the villagers and feels respected and warmly accepted by the community.
Q3

I Complete the table given below with the situations given in Column 1 and the reasons in Column 2.

Column 1 (Situation) Column 2 (Reason)
When the temperature is recorded as 50 degrees celsius and above, a state holiday has to be declared. ________________
Khetaram can dwell on any threshold. ________________
BSF always gave Khetaram a lift. ________________
  • Situation 1: The temperature is recorded as 49.9 degrees celsius instead of crossing 50 degrees celsius because government regulations mandate a state holiday once it reaches 50 degrees celsius.
  • Situation 2: Khetaram is universally trusted and welcomed by all villagers, who rely on him to read out their confidential letters and write replies in his own hand.
  • Situation 3: The BSF personnel are kind to him because he delivers their postal dak directly to their border camp under severe desert conditions.
Q4

II Why was a piece of jaggery offered in the village when he brought news of a birth or weddings?

Answer: In the impoverished desert village, villagers have very little to offer. Sharing a small piece of jaggery is their traditional and heartfelt gesture to celebrate auspicious occasions and show warmth and gratitude to the bearer of good news.

Q5

III How would phone lines help Khetaram in his job?

Answer: The expansion of phone connectivity would allow Khetaram to become a Gramin Sanchar Sewak, carrying a mobile phone along with physical mail from doorstep to doorstep. This would help villagers communicate instantly with their relatives and expand his service.