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Indian Government Initiatives

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Indian government initiatives cover national schemes for healthcare, education, rural housing, and cultural conservation. Test takers must understand the objectives and target demographics of various central and state programs. This is a highly scoring area in the general awareness section of SSC, banking, and PSC exams.

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Indian Government Initiatives Questions

Multiple choice

What is the target group for the Annapurna Scheme launched in 2000?

  1. Backward blocks

  2. Poorest of the poor

  3. Priority households

  4. Defence personnel

  5. Indigent senior citizens
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the Annapurna Scheme launched in 2000 targets the indigent senior citizens. It provides them with free 10 kg of food grains per month.

Multiple choice

GPY stands for

  1. Grameen Pushti Yojana

  2. Grameen Pushti Yog

  3. Grameen Pushal Yozna

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

GPY stands for Grameen Pushti Yojana, a nutrition support program in Bangladesh. Option A is spelled correctly and accurately represents the acronym's expansion. Option B has a typo ('Yog' instead of 'Yojana') and Option C has multiple spelling errors.

Multiple choice

The campaign education for all is a program og

  1. World Bank

  2. NCERT

  3. Ministry of human resource development government of india

  4. UNICEF
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The 'Education for All' campaign was launched by UNICEF globally to promote universal primary education. While India has its own Education for All program under the Ministry of HRD, the international campaign is primarily associated with UNICEF's initiatives worldwide.

Multiple choice

National Policy for Farmers 2007 is formulated based on the recommendations of

  1. Committee on Financial Inclusion

  2. Vaidyanathan Committee

  3. Forward Market Commission

  4. Working Group on Agriculture

  5. National Commission on Farmers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The National Policy for Farmers 2007 was formulated based on the recommendations of the National Commission on Farmers (NCF), chaired by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. The other options are unrelated: Committee on Financial Inclusion (banking access), Vaidyanathan Committee (cooperative banks), Forward Market Commission (commodity derivatives regulation), and Working Group on Agriculture is too generic.

Multiple choice

To solve the problem of unemployment Gandhiji advocate

  1. Comprehensive programme of technical education

  2. Rehabilitation of village and cottage industry

  3. Rapid industrialism

  4. Large scale use of science and technology
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhiji believed that mass unemployment could not be solved through industrialization or technology alone, but by revitalizing traditional village and cottage industries. This approach was central to his economic philosophy of self-sufficiency and decentralized production. Technical education and rapid industrialism were seen as inadequate or even harmful to rural employment.

Multiple choice

The Swaminathan Committee dealt with the formulation of the

  1. health policy

  2. population policy

  3. agricultural policy

  4. education policy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Swaminathan Committee, officially known as the National Commission on Agriculture (NCA), was constituted in 1971 under the chairmanship of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. This committee played a crucial role in formulating India's agricultural policy during and after the Green Revolution, focusing on modernizing farming techniques, improving crop varieties, and enhancing agricultural productivity to achieve food self-sufficiency.

Multiple choice

Which of the following necessitates formulation of specific poverty alleviation programmes?

Directions: Read the passage below and answer the question that follows:

Alleviation of rural poverty has been one of the primary objectives of planned development in India. Ever since the inception of planning, the policies and the programmes have been designed and redesigned with this aim.  The problem of rural poverty was brought into a sharper focus during the Sixth Plan. The Seventh Plan too emphasised growth with social justice. It was realised that a sustainable strategy of poverty alleviation has to be based on inversing the productive employment opportunities in the process of growth itself. However, to the extent the process of growth bypasses some sections of the population, it is necessary to formulate specific poverty alleviation programmes for generation of a certain minimum level of income for the rural poor.

Rural development implies both the economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation.  Increased participation of people in the rural development process, decentralisation of planning, better enforcement of land reforms and greater access to credit and inputs go a long way in providing the rural people with better prospects of economic development. Improvements in health, education, drinking water, energy supply sanitation and housing couple with attitudinal changes also facilitate their social development.

Rural poverty is inextricably linked with low rural productivity and unemployment, including underemployment.  Hence, it is imperative to improve productivity and increase employment in rural areas. Moreover, more employment needs to be generated at higher levels of productivity in order to generate higher output.  Employment at miserably low levels of productivity and incomes is already a problem of far greater magnitude than unemployment as such.  It was around 5 percent.  As per the currently used methodology in the Planning Commission, poverty for the same year was estimated to be 30 percent.  This demonstrates that even though a large proportion of the rural population was ‘working’ it was difficult for them to eke out a living even at subsistence levels from it. It is true that there has been a considerable decline in the incidence of rural poverty over time.  In terms of absolute numbers of poor, the decline has been much less. While this can be attributed to the demographic factor, the fact remains that after 40 years of planned development about 200 million are still poor in rural India.

  1. Certain sections are not covered in the process of growth

  2. The sharper focus given in the Sixth Plan

  3. Extension of social justice to rural areas

  4. To keep the rural population outside the periphery of growth

  5. The large number of rural poor
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) is directly stated in ''to the extent the process of growth bypasses some sections of the population, it is necessary to formulate specific poverty alleviation programmes''.

Multiple choice

What is called the integrated tribal development project?

  1. Tribal sub-project

  2. Integrated rural development project

  3. Meso project

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Meso projects are indeed called integrated tribal development projects. These are medium-sized projects designed for comprehensive development of tribal areas, combining various development aspects like education, health, and livelihood.

Multiple choice

Object of the Sangam Yojana is to _____.

  1. make the Sangam area a tourist place

  2. increase the welfare of the disabled

  3. make the ganga water pollution free

  4. integrate various factions of the Hindu society
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Sangam Yojana (Scheme) is a welfare scheme aimed at improving the lives of disabled persons. 'Sangam' refers to confluence or coming together, and this scheme focuses on the welfare and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, providing them with support services, assistive devices, and opportunities for social and economic integration. It operates under the social justice and empowerment framework.

Multiple choice

In which of the following fields Sri Arvind Kejriwal has been selected for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2006 for his important contribution?

  1. Formation of Pani (water Panchayats in Rajasthan helping rural people in facing their acute water problem)

  2. Effective implementation of the “National Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme” in rural areas.

  3. Right to Information movement and empowering citizens to fight corruption

  4. Extending education to children of slum dwellers in Delhi
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Arvind Kejriwal received the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his leadership in the Right to Information (RTI) movement, which empowered citizens to fight corruption through transparency and accountability. His work with Parivartan and grassroots activism strengthened India's RTI legislation.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct option for the given question.

Kutir Jyoti scheme is associated with

  1. promoting cottage industry in villages

  2. promoting employment among rural unemployed youth

  3. providing electricity to rural families living below the poverty line

  4. all of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Kutir Jyoti scheme was launched to provide electricity connections to rural families living below the poverty line. It was a targeted initiative to bring basic electrification to the poorest rural households. Option C is correct. Option A (cottage industry) and B (employment) describe different schemes.

Multiple choice

World Bank is assisting in the implementation of intergrated watershed development project for plains the project is being executed in the states of

  1. Rajasthan , Punjab & Haryana

  2. U.P., Rajasthan & Gujarat

  3. West Bengal, Orissa & Bihar

  4. Rajasthan , Gujarat & Orissa
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The World Bank assisted Integrated Watershed Development Project for plains was implemented in Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Orissa. This project focused on sustainable land and water management in these states' plain regions to address drought and improve agricultural productivity.

Multiple choice

THe National Seed Policy 2002, was based on the recommendation of the

  1. Kelkar Committee

  2. M.V. Rao Committee

  3. Y.B. Reddy Committee

  4. Prof. Abhijit Sen Committee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The National Seed Policy 2002 was based on recommendations of the M.V. Rao Committee, which reviewed India's seed sector and suggested reforms for quality assurance, variety development, and seed industry growth.