This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian Economy > Social > Poverty Unemployment And Alleviation Programmes – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poverty Unemployment And Alleviation Programmes Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Women, children and old people are the ..... of the poor A) Educated. B) Intelligent. C) Richest. D) Poorest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poorest. 2. Which of the following is the strategy for effetive eradication of Poverty in India? A) Process of Social Mobilisation. B) Empowering Poor People by encouraging them to participate in employment. C) Prividing infrastructure like schools, roads in the identified poverty striken areas. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 3. For which one of the following purposes, the Government has launched the Rajiv Awas Yojana? [Punjab & Sindh Bank 2011] A) To provide affordable houses to people living BPL. B) To provide affordable houses to rural poor. C) To provide affordable houses to minorities. D) To provide affordable houses to slum dwellers and the urban poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To provide affordable houses to slum dwellers and the urban poor. 4. Under MGNRGA government gurantees to provide at least how many days of employment to a person ina year? A) 90. B) 100. C) 250. D) 365. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100. 5. Nutritional level of food energy is expressed in the form of A) Wheat consumption. B) Rice consumption per day. C) Calories per day. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calories per day. 6. In Pre-Independent India who was the first to discuss the concept of Poverty Line? A) P C Mahalnobis. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Dadabhai Naroji. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dadabhai Naroji. 7. Which two states considered as the poorest states of India? A) Bihar & Orissa. B) Punjab & Haryana. C) Gujrat & M.P. D) U.P. & Bihar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bihar & Orissa. 8. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas. 9. What is the most difficult challenge faced by independent India? A) Malnutrition. B) Child Labour. C) Unemployment. D) Poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poverty. 10. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana. 11. How did famines became events of the past? A) Improved literacy rate. B) Increased Rainfall. C) Maintenance of Buffer stock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maintenance of Buffer stock. 12. "This achievement (independence) is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the great triumphs and achievements that await us ..... the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity." This statement is given by whom? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Narendra Modi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 13. Which states have traditionally succeeded in reducing poverty with the help of high agricultural growth rates? A) Kerala and West Bengal. B) Punjab and Tamil Nadu. C) Punjab and Haryana. D) Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punjab and Haryana. 14. According to C Rangarajan Committee report a person cannot be considered as poor in rural and urban areas if he/she is spending atlest how much per day resepectively? A) Rs. 27 & Rs.33. B) Rs. 32 & Rs. 47. C) Rs.33 & Rs. 38. D) Rs. 47 & Rs. 52. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rs. 32 & Rs. 47. 15. What is the minimum calorie intake decided by the Planning Commission for rural and urban areas, respectively ? A) 2400 and 2100. B) 2100and 2400. C) 2400 and 2200. D) 2100 and 2200. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2400 and 2100. 16. As per latest data in urban areas women employment is highest in which of the following industries areas? [UBI PO 2010] A) Textiles. B) Apparel. C) Education. D) Retail Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retail Trade. 17. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meeting rural needs like Primary education; health care, drinking water, housing, rural roads. 18. TANWA is a project initiated in TamilNadu to train women in ..... A) Industrial techniques. B) Household techniques. C) Agricultural techniques. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agricultural techniques. 19. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu. 20. According to the World bank, poverty is measured by A) People living below Rs.100 per day. B) People living below $ 1.90 per day. C) People living below Rs.550 per month. D) None of above. 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