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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 employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following issues are addressed through the scheme NREGA ?

  1. Poverty

  2. Unmployment

  3. Both

  4. None
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The reduction of poverty is been given priority in this Act and its, main goal is to remove poverty and create fuller employment. The most important factor which influences the status of a poor is employment. Rural unemployment as a condition under which the worker would be willing to work longer hours or more intensively far a higher income but could have no opportunity of doing so due to the absence of opportunities for working. 

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

What are the main features of NREGA ?

  1. It guarantees 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

  2. One-third of the proposed jobs would be reserved for women.

  3. If an applicant is not provided employment within 15 days, she/he will be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Features of NREGA are as follows :-
a) It guarantees 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work
b) One-third of the proposed jobs would be reserved for women.
c)  If an applicant is not provided employment within 15 days, she/he will be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

What is the full form of MGNREGA ?

  1. Maharashtra Government National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  2. Meghalaya Government National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  3. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Empowerment Guarantee Act

  4. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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D Correct answer
Explanation

NREGA   - NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT
MGNREGA - MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act", MGNREGA), is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

What is the significance of NREGA?

  1. All adult members of a rural household willing to do unskilled manual work have the right to demand employment

  2. At least one-third of the workers should be women

  3. No contractors/and no labour -displacing machinery shall be used in execution of works

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

NREGA is significant because it empowers rural households to demand work, mandates gender representation, and prohibits the use of contractors or labor-displacing machinery to ensure the benefits reach the workers directly.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

What facilities are provided under NREGA?

  1. Providing support for child care

  2. Ensuring that single women are eligible

  3. Both A and B

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

NREGA mandates specific facilities at worksites to ensure inclusivity and safety, including support for child care and specific provisions for single women.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

What is the purpose of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act?

  1. To provide employment to all those who are unemployed

  2. To provide 150 days' of employment to those who are willing to take a job

  3. To ensure that nobody in a village remains unemployed

  4. To ensure that people get enough income during off-season
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following is/are the specific goal(s) of Bharat Nirman Project launched by the Govt of India?
(A) to provide more and more employment opportunities to rural youth
(B) To develop infrastructural in rural areas
(C) To provide best technical education to Indian youth.

  1. Only (A)

  2. Only (A) and (B)

  3. Only (B) and (C)

  4. Only (B)
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Bharat Nirman was a time-bound business plan for building rural infrastructure, focusing on six components: irrigation, roads, housing, water supply, electrification, and telecommunication.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

The purpose of which of the following programmes is to provide a single-point light connection to the rural poor?

  1. Swajal Dhara

  2. Sangam Yojana

  3. Kutir Jyoti

  4. District Development Programme
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Kutir Jyoti is a government scheme specifically designed to provide single-point electricity connections to rural households living below the poverty line.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following schemes launched by the Govt of India is a scheme to improve the performance of the agricultural sector?

  1. National Horticulture Mission

  2. Pulse Polio Abhiyan

  3. Old Age Pension Scheme

  4. Bharat Nirman Yojana
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The National Horticulture Mission was launched to promote holistic growth of the horticulture sector through research, technology promotion, and infrastructure development.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following schemes has been launched to make cities free from slums?

  1. Indira Awas Yojana

  2. Bharat Nirman

  3. Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana

  4. Pradhan Mantri Aadarsha Gram Yojana
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana was specifically launched to provide housing and basic amenities to slum dwellers, aiming to make cities slum-free.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following is the scheme for providing electricity connections to all the rural households in the country?

  1. ASHA

  2. Swadhar

  3. Kutir Jyoti

  4. Deep Mala
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Kutir Jyoti is the specific scheme aimed at providing electricity connections to rural households, particularly those below the poverty line.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Consider the following statements about SABLA scheme.
(A) It replaces Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) in all districts.
(B) It is being implemented in $200$ districts at present.
(C) It is a scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls.
Which of the statements is/are correct?

  1. Only (A)

  2. Only (B)

  3. Only (A) and (B)

  4. Only (B) and (C)
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D Correct answer
Explanation

SABLA (Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls) was launched to empower adolescent girls. It replaced the Kishori Shakti Yojana and the Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls in selected districts.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

For which one of the following purposes, the Government has launched the Rajiv Awas Yojana?

  1. To provide affordable houses to people living BPL

  2. To provide affordable houses to rural poor

  3. To provide affordable houses to minorities

  4. To provide affordable houses to slum dwellers and the urban poor
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Rajiv Awas Yojana was launched by the Government of India to provide support to states that are willing to assign property rights to people living in slums, aiming for a slum-free India.

Multiple choice economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

Which of the following is correct about the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana?
(A) The scheme was launched in a few backward states only.
(B) The aim of the scheme was to provide electricity to all villages having a population of $5000$ and above.
(C) The scheme achieved its target in less than $10$ years time.

  1. Only (A)

  2. Only (B)

  3. Only (C)

  4. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana aimed to provide electricity to all rural households, not just those with a population of 5000 and above, and it was a nationwide scheme rather than limited to a few backward states.