The ‘Slack Season’ in the Indian Economy is:

• March – April
• Sep – Dec.
• Jan – June
• Feb. – April

    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

 Which  one  of  the   following   is   a   revamp of  the   Integrated Rural Development

Programme?

• Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
• Community-based Pro-poor Initiative
• Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
• National Social Assistance Programme

   What is the main objective of Antyodaya programme?

• Uplift the poor
• Uplift the urban poor
• Uplift the farmer
• Uplift the landless labour

  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]

• TRYSEM
• Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
• Kutir Jyoti Scheme
• ASHA
• MNREGA

 Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna came into being in : [UPPCS 2002]

• April 1995
• April 1997
• April 1999
• July 2001

 Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna came into being in : [UPPCS 2002]

• April 1995
• April 1997
• April 1999
• July 2001

  The Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) is an extension of:

• Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
• National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
• Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)
• Minimum Needs Programme (MNP)

  With reference to the Government of India’s various programmes, what is Nirmal

Gram Puraskar? [IAS 2006]

• It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for the single girl child in families in
• It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for female sportspersons from villages who represent their states in any
• It is an incentive scheme for schools in the villages for computer
• It is an incentive scheme Panchayati Raj institutions.

   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

   Operation Blackboard aims at

• promoting adult literacy
• providing education to urban slum dwellers
• opening of new schools specially for female children
• providing primary education in an educationally backward area