Andhra Pradesh Board Social Science Syllabus for Class 10

Andhra Pradesh Board Syllabus

Class 10 Social Science

1.India Resources :-

Types of Resources : Natural resources- Soil, Formation, types and distribution,
soil conservation.
Forest and Wild Life - Forest types, Utility, Wild animals and their conservation
Endangered animals.
Agriculture - Main crops, Contribution of Agriculture to National Economy,
Herbal Farms & their utility.
Water Resource - Types, Sources, Distribution, Use, Protection &
Conservation.
Mineral Resource - Types, Distribution, Use, Conservation and Economic
importance.
Power Resource - Types : Convetional & Non-Convetional, Distribution,
Utilisation & Conservation.
Industry:-

2.Types, Discription of Special Industries, Contribution of Industries to National
Economy. Industrial Pollution, and the efforts for Solution.
Transport, Communication and Foreign Trade :-

3.Transport-Utility and types - Railways, Roadways, Airways, Waterways,
Pipelines, Ports & Harbours.
Communication, Importance of Communication in modern days, Means
of Communication.

Contribution of foreign Trade to Indian Economy, Imports and Exports.
Disaster Management :-

4.Natural Calamities - Drought, Flood, Earthquake, Landslides, Tsunami.
Man Made Calamaties - Nuclearic, Biotic and Chemical, Bomb Blast.
General Calamities - Precautions and Security.
Maps:-Reading and Marking

First struggle for Freedom and after :-

5.First struggle for Freedom of 1857. Introduction to important revolutionaries,
birth of Indian National Congress, Moderates and Extremes.
Events related to Independence Reviolution :-

6.Important events of the Indian struggle for Independence, Reviolution of
Bange Bhang Partion of India in 1947
and its silent features, Contribution of Madhya Pradesh to the Freedom Struggle.
Major events of the Post-Independence period :-

7.Kashmir Problem, India's relation with neighbouring contries, Chinse war with
India in 1962, India-pakistan war of 1965 and 1971, birth of Bangladesh,
emergency in India, Rise of India as an atomic power.
Indian Constitution :-

Organisation of Constitution Draft Commettee, Salient Features of Indian
Constitution.
Working of Indian Democracy :-

8.Federal System, Division of Administrative Power between Centre and
States, Organs of Government : Legeslature, Executive and Judiciary, Local
Administration.
Major Challenges before Democracy :-

9.Increase in Population, Unemployment, Communalism, Terrorists,
drugaddication;
Major hinderence in success of Democracy and measures for removal .
Story of Economic Development :-

10.Ancient and modren concept of economic development. National Income
& Per Capita Income, Indicators of human developement, developing States
with examples, Economic Planning in India, physical and non pysical with
examples.
Money and Financial system : An Introduction to money in ancient time,
Financial Institutions such as money lenders, zamindars, self helps groups,
chit funds, private financial institutions and different types of banks.
Service Sector :-

11.Service Sector - Meaning and Importance as a Component in Income.
Infrastructure - Economic and Social Contribution of India's Service sector
in the World.
Consumer Awareness :-

12.Consumer Awareness - Need and Importance, Consumer Exploitation,
Causes and Remedies. Standarlisation of Commodities, Government Role.
Economic System and Globalisation :-

13.Economic System - Meaning, Capitalism, Socialism and Mixed Economy-
Charactarstics, Merits and Demerits.
Globalisation - Meaning, Needs, Development Earlier to 1991 and Modern
Reforms, Impact of Globalisation.