Civics Polity · General Awareness

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

The government launched which project to safeguard and conserve India`s natural and heritage?

  1. Project Snow Leopard

  2. Project Domestic

  3. Project Natural Heritage

  4. Project Shakti Sadan
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Project Snow Leopard was launched by the Indian government in 2009 to protect the endangered snow leopard and its high-altitude habitat. It focuses on the Himalayan regions across five Indian states. The project aims to promote conservation through community participation.

Multiple choice

The Government of India constituted the National Welfare Fund in 1982, in the field of sports. This fund was created to give financial assistance to

  1. outstanding sportspersons of yesteryears who are in indigent circumstances

  2. state governments to encourage sports t the school level

  3. universities for encouraging sports and physical education

  4. outstanding sportspersons who win positions in sports at international level
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons was established to provide financial assistance to outstanding sportspersons of the past who are currently living in indigent circumstances.

Multiple choice

The benefits under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana include which of the following?

  1. Hospitalisation expenses; taking care of most common illnesses excluding maternity benefits
  2. Health insurance cover of Rs. 30000 per family per annum on a family floater basis
  3. Cashless attendance to all covered ailments

  1. 1, 2 and 3

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 2 and 3

  4. 1 and 2

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana provides a cover of Rs 30,000 per family per year on a floater basis and ensures cashless attendance for covered ailments at empaneled hospitals.

Multiple choice

The forest policy by the Government of India is aimed at

  1. bringing 43 percent of the geographical areas under forest cover

  2. evolving the natural heritage of the country by adding to its biological diversity and genetic pool

  3. extension of the desert lands

  4. increasing the forest area in all the sparsley populated states

  5. creation of a massive peoples movement
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is incorrect. It aims to check soil erosion, extension of the desert lands and reduction of floods and droughts.

Multiple choice

Which of the following does not grant any tax rebate?

  1. National Saving Certificate

  2. Indira Vikas Patra

  3. National Saving Scheme

  4. Public Providend Fund
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Indira Vikas Patra is a savings certificate that does not offer tax benefits under Section 80C, unlike NSC, NSS, or PPF.

Multiple choice

CAPART is related with

  1. assisting and evaluating rural welfare programmes

  2. computer hardware

  3. consultant service of export promotion

  4. controlling pollution in big industries
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A Correct answer
Explanation

CAPART (Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology) is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Rural Development, focused on rural welfare.

Multiple choice

The main objective of TRYSEM was

  1. To train rural youth for self employment`

  2. To train urban youth for self employment

  3. Both of the above

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

TRYSEM (Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment) was a government program launched in 1979 specifically aimed at providing technical and entrepreneurial skills to rural youth to help them become self-employed.

Multiple choice

Expand NABARD

  1. National Agricultural Bank for Rural Development

  2. National Agricultural Bank and Rural Development

  3. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

  4. National Board for Agriculture Research and Development
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

NABARD stands for National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, an apex regulatory body for overall regulation of regional rural banks.

Multiple choice

Pradhanmantri Bharat Jodo Pariyojna is related to -

  1. Communication

  2. Social Integration

  3. Linking of Rivers

  4. Development of Highways
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Pradhanmantri Bharat Jodo Pariyojna is a major infrastructure project focused on the development and connectivity of national highways.

Multiple choice

Aam Admi Bima Yojana provides social security to -

  1. All labours in rural areas

  2. All landless labours living below poverty line in rural areas

  3. All labours in urban areas

  4. All labours in both rural as well as urban areas
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY) is a social security scheme specifically designed for landless rural households living below the poverty line. It provides insurance coverage to the head of the family or one earning member.

Multiple choice

NRHM means

  1. National Roads and Highway Mission

  2. National Rural Health Mission

  3. National and Regional Highway Mission

  4. National and Regional Health Mission
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

NRHM stands for the National Rural Health Mission, which was launched by the Government of India in 2005 to provide accessible and affordable healthcare to rural populations.