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Question No : 15
DWCRA stands for:

Development and Welfare of Catchment Rural Areas
Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
Direct Welfare of Children in Rural Areas
All of the above
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Question No : 16
In India, present trend of rapid urbanisation is due to:

lack of employment opportunities in rural areas
influence of cinema and electronic media
break up of joint family system
abolition of zamindari system
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Question No : 17
When the productive capacity of the economic system of a State is inadequate to create sufficient number of jobs, it is called [CDS 2012]

seasonal unemployment
structural unemployment
disguised unemployment
cyclical unemployment
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Question No : 18
The strategic aim of IRDP is :

to reduce unemployment
to provide the required inputs for increasing agricultural productivity
to provide more opportunities for rural employment and credit facilities at concessional rate of interest
none of these
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Question No : 19
Poverty in less developed countries is largely due to [CPO SI 2010]

voluntary idleness
income inequality
lack of cultural activities
lack of intelligence of the people
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Question No : 20
One of the reasons for India's occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that: [IAS 1995]

productivity in agriculture has been high enough to induce people to stay with agriculture
people are largely unaware of the significance of transition from agriculture to industry for economic development
investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
ceilings on land holdings have enabled more people to- own land and hence their preference to stay with agriculture
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Question No : 21
The type of unemployment mostly found in India can be characterised as :

structural
frictional
cyclical
disguised
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