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What is the main objective of Antyodaya programme?
D. Uplift the landless labour
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Under Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (lGNOAPS), the benefits are available to the people having minimum age of ____ [Bank of India PO 2010]
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Which of these programs has not been included in the Swarna Jayanti Swarozgar Yojana?
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Which of the following schemes launched by the Govt. of India aims at enhancing the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work? [RBI Grade B Officer 2011]
B. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
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The strategic aim of IRDP is :
A. to reduce unemployment
B. to provide the required inputs for increasing agricultural productivity
C. to provide more opportunities for rural employment and credit facilities at concessional rate of interest
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The Food For Work programme was renamed as:
A. Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)
B. National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
C. Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)
D. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
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With reference to the Government of India's various programmes, what is Nirmal Gram Puraskar? [IAS 2006]
A. It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for the single girl child in families in villages.
B. It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for female sportspersons from villages who represent their states in any game.
C. It is an incentive scheme for schools in the villages for computer education.
D. It is an incentive scheme Panchayati Raj institutions.
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Among the following who are eligible to benefit from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ? [CSAT 2011]
A. Adult members of only the scheduled Caste and scheduled tribe households
B. Adult members of below poverty line (BPL) households
C. Adult members of households of all backward communities
D. Adult members of any household
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Consider the following statements in respect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 :
1. Under the provisions of the Act, 100 days of employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work has become a fundamental right.
2. Under the provisions of the Act, women are to get priority to the extent that one-half of persons who are given employment are women who have asked for work.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct? [IAS 2006]
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Which one of the following is a revamp of the Integrated Rural Development Programme?
A. Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
B. Community-based Pro-poor Initiative
C. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
D. National Social Assistance Programme
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When the productive capacity of the economic system of a State is inadequate to create sufficient number of jobs, it is called [CDS 2012]
B. structural unemployment
C. disguised unemployment
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Which Committee's recommendations are being followed for estimating Poverty Line in India?
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Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna came into being in : [UPPCS 2002]
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Consider the following statements: [NDA 2008]
1. Hariyali is a watershed development project sponsored by the Central Government.
2. Hariyali also aims at enabling the urban population to conserve rain water.
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Unemployment which occurs when workers move from one job to another job is known as : [IAS 1992]
B. frictional unemployment
D. technological unemployment
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The Govt. of India has launched a number of poverty alleviation programmes. This is done with the view that poverty is the root cause of social insecurity. In addition to that UNO has also launched Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015.Which of the following is NOT one of those goals? [Punjab & Sindh Bank 2011]
B. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria
C. Reduce marriageable age for males to 18 yr
D. Promote gender equality and empower women
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In India, present trend of rapid urbanisation is due to:
A. lack of employment opportunities in rural areas
B. influence of cinema and electronic media
C. break up of joint family system
D. abolition of zamindari system
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Who amongst the following can take benefit of the Social Security Fund established by the Govt. of India for unorganized workers? [SBI Associates Clerk 2011]
A. Primary school teacher
B. Employee of Sugar Factory
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Which of the following is/are correct?
I. Bulk of unemployment in India is in rural areas
II. The disguised unemployment in agricultural sector is perennial
III. Industrialisation has rendered several people job-less in India
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The Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) is an extension of:
A. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
B. National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
C. Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)
D. Minimum Needs Programme (MNP)
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Disguised unemployment in India is mainly related to :
1. agricultural sector
2. rural area
3. factory sector
4. urban area
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Operation Blackboard aims at
A. promoting adult literacy
B. providing education to urban slum dwellers
C. opening of new schools specially for female children
D. providing primary education in an educationally backward area
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With reference to the government's welfare schemes, consider the following statements:
1. Under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana, the food grains are available to the poorest of the poor families at Rs. 2 per kg for wheat and Rs.3 per kg for rice.
2. Under the National Old Age Pension Scheme, the old and destitute are provided Rs. 75 per month as Central Pension, in addition to the amount provided by most State Governments.
3. Government of India has allocated 25 kg food grains per below Poverty Line family per month, at less than half the economic cost.
Which of these statements are correct? [IAS 2003]
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Among the reasons for disguised unemployment in the rural areas is :
A. choice of a heavy industry model for economic development
B. low levels of technological development in the country
C. heavy pressure of population along with slow implementation of land reforms
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Cyclical unemployment refers to:
B. disguised unemployment
C. voluntary unemployment
D. unemployment during recessionary phase of a trade cycle
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One of the reasons for India's occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that: [IAS 1995]
A. productivity in agriculture has been high enough to induce people to stay with agriculture
B. people are largely unaware of the significance of transition from agriculture to industry for economic development
C. investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
D. ceilings on land holdings have enabled more people to- own land and hence their preference to stay with agriculture
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Which of the following groups of states has the largest concentration of rural poor and people living below the poverty line?
A. Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa
B. Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
C. Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa
D. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
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Unemployment in a developing country generally takes place due to :
A. switch over from one job to another
B. lack of effective demand
D. lack of complementary factors of production
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The Govt. of India does not provide any direct financial assistance to which of the following schemes? [SBI Associates Clerk 2011]
A. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme
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The Minimum Needs Programme aims to:
A. provide means for greater mechanization of agriculture
B. improve the living condition of the poor and also promote their education and health
C. provide necessary resources by way of refinance to primary lenders