1.

    Unemployment in a developing country generally takes place due to :

• switch over from one job to another
• lack of effective demand
• seasonal factors
• lack of complementary factors of production

2.

   Cyclical unemployment refers to:

• seasonal unemployment
• disguised unemployment
• voluntary unemployment
• unemployment during recessionary phase of a trade cycle

3.

   Persons below the poverty line in India are classified as such based on whether: [IAS

1999]

• they are entitled to a minimum prescribed food basket
• they get work for a prescribed minimum number of days in a year
• they belong to agricultural laborer household and the scheduled caste/tribe social group
• their daily wages fall below the prescribed minimum wages

4.

Which Committee’s recommendations are being followed for estimating Poverty Line in India?

• Dutt Committee
• Chelliah Committee
• Chakravorty Committee
• Lakdawala Committee

5.

    Absolute Poverty means:

• poverty in terms of absolute number of people
• poverty in terms of the basic minimum calorie requirements
• poverty in terms of the prevailing price level
• poverty in terms of the absolute level of unemployment

6.

 Among the following who are eligible to benefit from the “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” ? [CSAT 2011]

• Adult members of only the scheduled Caste and scheduled tribe households
• Adult members of below poverty line (BPL) households
• Adult members of households of all backward communities
• Adult members of any household

7.

   Poverty Gap is :

• the difference between poverty line and actual income levels of all those living below that line
• gap between the rich and the poor
• gap between developed nations and developing nations
• gap in infrastructural facilities between developed and developing nations

8.

  The Food For Work programmer was renamed as:

• Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programmer (RLEGP)
• National Rural Employment Programmer (NREP)
• Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)
• Integrated Rural Development Programmer (IRDP)

9.

    Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana aims at:

• meeting rural needs like Primary education; health care, drinking water, housing, rural roads
• alleviating poverty micro-enterprises
• generating employment in the rural areas
• strengthening the Panchayati Raj System in rural areas

10.

    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

11.

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

Programmer?

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

12.

   What is the main objective of Anthodia programmer?

• Uplift the poor
• Uplift the urban poor
• Uplift the farmer
• Uplift the landless labor

13.

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

14.

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

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

15.

  The Minimum Needs Programme aims to:

• provide means for greater mechanization of agriculture
• improve the living condition of the poor and also promote their education and health
• provide necessary resources by way of refinance to primary lenders
• None of these

16.

 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)

17.

 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)

18.

 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)