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Do the following exercise for your village,by visiting a nearby village or looking at your own area. List the public services in the village,area such as: the milk society, the fair price shop, the bank, the police station, the agricultural society forseeds and fertiliser, the post office or sub post office, the anganwadi, creche, government school,s, health centre or government hospital etc. Collect information on three public services and discuss with your teacher how improvements. can be made in their functioning. One example has been worked out.  

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Public service	What did you notice about their work?	Area covered	What do they need to do in order to use the facility?	Problems faced by those managing the service	Problems faced by people	Improvements that can be made
Fair price shop  (ration shop)	The shop was open. Three people  came. They all had  yellow cards. They  bought sugar and  rice. Kerosene was not available.	This shop covers  two villages.	You need a ration  card. This has to be made at the tehsil  office.	There is not enough supply of  kerosene.	Rice is of very bad  quality. We never  get kerosene.	Improve quality of rice. Make kerosene available. The fair price shop should open every  day.
Health centre	There is a long  queus of the patients, but only few doctors are  available.	Three villages	The patients card which has the information about disease, the prescription, medicines and the duration for which medicines has to  be taken.	The patients cannot describe their  problem properly.	The medicines are  not available.	The rules should be Strictly adhered by  the staff.
Milk society	The people are distributing milk in  the morning and  evening.	One village	Carry money and a  pot to carry milk.	There is no proper time for milk carrying van.	The people have to  wait for a long  time.	The milk van owner should be  warned about the timings.