POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT MCQS SET 25

POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT MCQS SET 25

241) Unemployment in a developing country generally takes place due to:
A) switch over from one job to another
B) lack of effective demand
C) seasonal factors
D) lack of complementary factors of production
Correct Answer: lack of complementary factors of production
   
242) Cyclical unemployment refers to:
A) seasonal unemployment
B) disguised unemployment
C) voluntary unemployment
D) unemployment during recessionary phase of a trade cycle
Correct Answer: unemployment during recessionary phase of a trade cycle
   
243) The Food For Work programme was renamed as:
A) National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
B) Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)
C) Integrated Rural Development Programme (lRDP)
D) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)
Correct Answer: National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
   
244) Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana aims at:
A) meeting rural needs like Primary education; health care, drinking water, housing, rural roads
B) alleviating poverty micro-enterprises
C) generating employment in the rural areas
D) strengthening the Panchayati Raj System in rural areas
Correct Answer: meeting rural needs like Primary education; health care, drinking water, housing, rural roads
   
245) Which one of the following statements is not correct?
A) Under the Targeted Public Distribution System, the families Below Poverty Line are provided 50 kg. of food grains per month per family at subsidised price
B) Under Annapurna Scheme, indigent senior citizens of 65 years of age or above eligible for National Old Age Pension but not getting pension can get 10 kg of food grains per person per month free of cost
C) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has scheme in which indigent people living in welfare institutions like orphanages are given 15 kg of food grains per person per month at BPL rates
D) Ministry of Human Resource Development gives financial support to Mid-Day Meal Scheme for the benefit of class I to V students in Government or Government aided Schools
Correct Answer: Under the Targeted Public Distribution System, the families Below Poverty Line are provided 50 kg. of food grains per month per family at subsidised price

246) Consider the following statements:
1. The loans disbursed to farmers under Kisan Credit Card Scheme are covered under Rashtriya Krishi Beema Yojna of Life Insurance Corporation of India.
2. The Kisan Credit Card holders are provided personal accident insurance of Rs.50000 for accidental death and Rs.25000 for permanent disability.
Which of the statement given above is/are correct?
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 or 2
Correct Answer: 2 only   
 
247) DWCRA stands for:
A) Development and Welfare of Catchment Rural Areas
B) Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
C) Direct Welfare of Children in Rural Areas
D) All of the above
Correct Answer: Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
   
248) 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
Correct Answer: Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana   
 
249) What is the main objective of Antyodaya programme?
A) Uplift the poor
B) Uplift the urban poor
C) Uplift the farmer
D) Uplift the landless labour
Correct Answer: Uplift the poor
   
250) 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?
A) TRYSEM
B) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
C) MNREGA
D) ASHA
Correct Answer: ASHA