1. The garibi hatao (eradicate poverty) slogan was coined during the

2. The Employment Assurance Scheme envisages financial assistance to rural areas for guaranteeing employment to at least

3. Which of the following factors does not divide our society into haves and have nots?

4. Which committee was set up to review the concept of the Poverty Line?

5. Which of the following is/are correct? A. bulk of unemployment in India is in rural areas B. the disguised unemployment in agricultural sector is perennial C. industrialization has rendered several people jobless in India

6. The Second Rural Labour Enquiry (RLE) was set up in

7. Jawahar Rozgar Yojana for rural employment was started in the year

8. The Employment Assurance Scheme envisages financial assistance to rural areas for guaranteeing employment to at least

9. Which of the following is a noneconomic cause of poverty?

10. Consider the following statements. The objectives of the National Renewal Fund set up in February 1992 were A. to give training and counselling for workers affected by retrenchment or VRS. B. redeployment of workers Which of these statements is/are correct?

11. Which one of the following is not the economic factor contributing to poverty?

12. Which of the following is a cause for economic insecurity?

13. Which of the following is true regarding the Jawaharlal Rozgar Yojana (JRY)?

14. The Employment Guarantee Scheme, a rural work programme, was first started in

15. Which of the following has been started to supplement NREP?

16. Calorie supply (daily per capita) is calculated by dividing the calorie equivalent of the available food supplies in a country by its

17. While the percentage of literacy has been increasing every decade, the total number of illiterates has been

18. The Trade Unions Act was passed in

19. Which of the following is not a poverty removal programme?

20. Persons below the poverty line in India are classified as such based on whether

21. Consider the following statements in respect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. 1. Under the provision of the Act, 100 days of employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work has become a fundamental right. 2. Under the provision of the Act, women are to get priority to the extent that one-half of persons who are given employment are women who have asked for work. Which of the statement given above is/ are correct?

22. Directions: Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are individually true and if so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion. Select your answers to these items using the codes given below: Codes:

23. One of the reasons for India's occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that

24. Consider the following statements in respect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. I. Under the provisions of the Act, 100 days of employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work has become a fundamental right. II. Under the provisions of the Act, women are to get priority to the extent that one-half of persons who are given employment are women who have asked for work. Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?

25. With reference to the government's welfare schemes, consider the following statements. A. Under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana, the foodgrains are available to the poorest of the poor families at ' 2 solidus kg for wheat and ' 3 solidus kg of rice. B. Under the National Old Age Pension Scheme, the old and destitute are provided ' 75 Solidus month as Central Pension, in addition to the amount provided by most State Governments. C. Government of India has allocate. 2. kg foodgrains per below poverty line family per month, at less than half the economic cost. Which of these statements are correct?