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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 economics rural development in india basics of rural development meaning and importance of rural development agriculture sector

Which of the following programmes the Govt of India has launched to develop comprehensive rural infrastructure in the country?

  1. Bharat Nirman

  2. Indira Aawas Yojana

  3. Watershed Development Programme

  4. Self Help Groups
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Bharat Nirman is the primary government program designed to develop comprehensive rural infrastructure across India.

Multiple choice economics rural development in india basics of rural development meaning and importance of rural development agriculture sector

Which programme was launched to provide housing to rural people?

  1. Indira Awas Yojana

  2. Slum Development Yojana

  3. Adarsh Basti Programme

  4. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) was a major social welfare program created by the Indian government to provide housing for the rural poor.

Multiple choice economics rural development in india basics of rural development meaning and importance of rural development agriculture sector

Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was initiated to ______________.

  1. to improve the rural women through the creation of income generation activities in a district

  2. to generate additional gainful employment in the rural areas to bring about a general improvement in the overall quality of life in rural areas

  3. to enable the selected families to cross the poverty line through a strategy of productive assets endowment

  4. all of above
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was a major self-employment program launched in 1978-79 to assist small and marginal farmers, agricultural laborers, and rural artisans to cross the poverty line.

Multiple choice economics rural development in india basics of rural development meaning and importance of rural development agriculture sector

The following programme was introduced as a result of restructuring & combining Integrated Rural Development Programme  (IRDP) & allied programmes and Million Wells Schmme (MWS)

  1. Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna

  2. Sampoorna Grameen Swarozgar Yojna

  3. India Awas Yojna

  4. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna
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Explanation

The Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) was launched in 1999 by merging the IRDP and its allied programs like MWS, TRYSEM, DWCRA, SITRA, and GKY.

Multiple choice economics rural development in india basics of rural development meaning and importance of rural development agriculture sector

Which of the following schemes was launched to promote exports of agricultural produce and their value added products in India?

  1. Vishesh Krishi and Gram Udyog Yojana

  2. Financial inclusion Scheme

  3. Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana

  4. Van Upaj Yojana
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Vishesh Krishi and Gram Udyog Yojana (VKGUY) was introduced to promote the export of agricultural produce and value-added products by providing duty credit scrips.

Multiple choice economics how does production take place? entrepreneur land,labour, capital and entrepreneur production mechanism

To simplify the regulatory framework the government introduced the 'ease of doing business' scheme wherein an MSME unit has to fill in a single one page self-declaration online form called ___________.

  1. adhaar form

  2. MSME application form

  3. udyog aadhaar

  4. adhaar udyog
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Udyog Aadhar is a one-page registration form which constitutes a self-declaration format under which the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises(MSME)  will self-certify its existence, bank account details,  promoter/owner’s aadhaar details and other minimum information required.

Multiple choice geography production in a factory - a paper mill production in a paper mill information technology industry automobile and electronic industries

Prime Minister, Narendhra Modi has launched digital India programme to secure the position of which of the following industry?

  1. IT industry

  2. Aluminium industry

  3. Paper industry

  4. All of these
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Explanation

Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.

It was launched on 1 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks.

The Government of India has launched the Digital India program to provide several government services to the people using IT and to integrate the government departments and the people of India. The adoption of key technologies across sectors spurred by the Digital India Initiative could help boost India's Gross Domestic Product.

Multiple choice political science national integration diverse democracy diversity unity and diversity in india community and community development community development national symbols our national symbols

Which of the following is an initiative of the government to promote national integration?

  1. Election Commission

  2. Lok Adalats

  3. National Integration Council

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Initiative of government to promote national integration is National Integration Council. National integration council is a group of senior politicians and public figures who gather and look ways to solve communalism, casteism and regionalism. It was started in 1962. The head of National integration council is prime minister. 

Multiple choice general knowledge resources of india and world animal husbandry and fishery green and white revolution agriculture in indian economy cattle farming agriculture sector

Operation Flood Project refers to _________________.

  1. Preventing the flooding of rivers

  2. The project to increase and stabilise milk production

  3. Checking the flood menace in Assam

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Operation Flood was a massive project launched in India to increase milk production, promote rural development, and make the country self-sufficient in milk.

Multiple choice social science poverty : challenge facing india programmes for poverty eradication poverty as a challenge poverty: an economic challenge for india public health and the government constraints in economic development of rajasthan

Poverty can be defined as a situation in which _______.

  1. a person earns below Rs 5,000 p.m

  2. a person earns below Rs 7,000 p.m

  3. a person is able to fulfill their basic maximum requirement of life

  4. a person is unable to fulfill even their basic minimum requirements of life
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Poverty is fundamentally defined as the inability to meet basic minimum requirements for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter.

Multiple choice social science poverty : challenge facing india programmes for poverty eradication poverty as a challenge poverty: an economic challenge for india public health and the government constraints in economic development of rajasthan

Punjab and Haryana have succeeded in reducing poverty with the help of ____________.

  1. Low agricultural growth rates

  2. High agricultural growth rates

  3. Rivers

  4. Transport system

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Agriculture and allied fields like dairy, fisheries, animal husbandry are a major source of employment in Punjab and Haryana. So, main living of people here depends on agriculture. With the high growth rate in agriculture, these states have succeeded in reducing poverty.

Multiple choice social science poverty : challenge facing india programmes for poverty eradication poverty as a challenge poverty: an economic challenge for india public health and the government constraints in economic development of rajasthan

For the purpose of defining poverty line which definition is adopted by the Planning Commission in India?

  1. Given by WHO

  2. Given by UNO

  3. Given by task force on projection of minimum needs and effective consumption demand

  4. Given by ILO
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Planning Commission of India historically used the methodology developed by the Task Force on Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand to define the poverty line based on calorie intake.

Multiple choice economics parameters (indicators) of development human development and human development index (hdi) hdi dynamic of human development

The National Food For Work scheme is now merged with which of the following?

  1. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  3. Bharat Nirman

  4. Indira Awas Yojana
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The National Food for Work Programme was launched in 2004 and was subsequently subsumed into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2006 to provide a legal guarantee of employment.

Multiple choice botany environmental factors soil-nature climate factors abiotic components

Which of the following NGO releases State of Environment Report in India?

  1. Seva Bharati

  2. Development Alternatives

  3. Tirumitra

  4. Integrated Rural Development Organization
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Development Alternatives is a well-known Indian NGO that has been involved in environmental research and the publication of reports regarding the state of the environment in India.

Multiple choice economics environment pollution international efforts for conserving biodiversity effects of pollution on environment government efforts in pollution control

Which among the following schemes of Government of India comes under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol?

  1. National Solar Mission

  2. Bachat lamp Yojana

  3. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

  4. Akshay-Prakash Yojna
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Bachat Lamp Yojana is a scheme that promotes energy efficiency by providing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to households at a lower cost, which qualifies as a Clean Development Mechanism project under the Kyoto Protocol.