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The most populated country in the world is __________.

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  1. China

  2. India

  3. USA

  4. Pakistan

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

China has the world's largest population of 1.4 billion. In recorded history, China was always the most populous country in the world. In 2100 BC, China's population was 4-5m almost 1/8th of the world's population at that time - 35m. In 1910 - China was close to 440m when the world's population was 1.7-1.8bn. Almost 25%.

What is chronic hunger?

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  1. Which persists only during a particular part of the season

  2. When diet is persistently inadequate in terms of quantity or quality

  3. Both of these

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Chronic hunger- When diet is persistently inadequate in terms of quantity or quality, it is called chronic hunger. Usually poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their low income and as a result of their inability to buy food even for their survival.

To whom the yellow card is issued?

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  1. To shopkeepers

  2. To landlords

  3. To government employees

  4. People below poverty line

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Under Targeted Public Distribution System the following criteria are applied:-

  1. Families having annual income up to Rs. 15,000 having been included in IRDP List of 1997-98.
  2. None of the members of the family should be a doctor or a lawyer or an architect or a chartered accountant.
  3. None of the members of the family should be a professional taxpayer, a sales taxpayer or an income taxpayer or eligible to pay such tax.
  4. The family should not posses residential telephone.
  5. The family should not possess four wheeler vehicle.
  6. None of the family members should hold total two-hectare rainfed or one hectare semi-irrigated or 1/2 hectare irrigated (double in drought-prone talukas) land.

Which are the special target groups in Antyodaya Anna Yojana?

social science understanding poverty programmes for poverty eradication public health and the government poverty : challenge facing india

  1. Poorest of the poor

  2. Poor and Non-poor

  3. Backward class

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Poor and Poorest of the Poor people, i.e. BPL families whose total annual household income is below Rs. 25,985, based on an average household size of 5.3. Family Identity Cards (Ration Cards) have been issued to all the head of families with details of members of the family listed on the card in this category.