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Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

What does food security mean?

  1. Availability of food

  2. Accessibility of offd

  3. Availability and accessibility of food to all at all times

  4. Availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all at all times
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Food security means everybody is able to get enough healthy food to be well and active. For everybody to get enough food, we need a food system that works well. 

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

The Mother Dairy is an important Cooperative in ______.

  1. Gujarat

  2. Punjab

  3. Haryana

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

The company derives significant competitive advantage from its unique distribution network of bulk vending milk booths, retail outlets and mobile units. Mother Dairy ice creams launched in the year 1995 have shown continuous growth over the years and today boasts of approximately 62% market share in Delhi and NCR.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

The food security system of India is composed of components like _____.

  1. <span>Minimum Support Price</span>

  2. Buffer stock

  3. Public Distribution System

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The food security system is composed of two components:
1- Maintaining a Buffer Stock of food grains purchased by the government by offering farmers the Minimum Support Price (MSP).
2- This foodgrain is distributed among the poorer sections of the society with the help of a Public Distribution System (PDS).

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

Buffer stock is the stock of foodgrains procured by the government through _____.

  1. IFCI

  2. FCI

  3. IDBI

  4. FICCI
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is the main agency for procurement, storage and distribution of food grains. In addition to the requirements of wheat and rice under the Targeted PDS, the Central Pool is required to have sufficient stocks of these in order to meet any emergencies like drought/failures of crop, as well as to enable open market intervention in case of price rise.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

Which states are more food insecure in India?

  1. Orissa

  2. Rajasthan

  3. Jharkhand

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The economically backward states with high incidence of poverty, tribal and remote areas, and regions more prone to natural disasters etc. are more food insecure in India. These states include Orissa, Rajasthan, Jharkjand and parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

Which types of people are more prone to food insecurity in urban areas?

  1. Casual labourers

  2. Workers employed in the ill paid occupations

  3. Workers employed in seasonal activities

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In the urban areas the following types of people are more prone to food insecurity:
(i) Casual labourers
(ii) Workers employed in the ill paid occupations.
(iii) Workers employed in seasonal activities.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

Which problem crept up in the functioning of the ration shops?

  1. The quality of rationed articles is much less than what it should be

  2. Some of the ration shop dealers resort to malpractices

  3. Some of the ration shop dealers sell only poor quality of grains

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Problems crept up in the functioning of the ration shops, such as:
(i) The quality of the rationed articles issued to the poor is much less than what it should be.
(ii) Some of the ration shop dealers resort to malpractices.
(iii) Some of the ration shop dealers sell only poor quality of grains.
(iv) Some dealers do not open their shops regularly and the poor people can not draw their ration quota timely.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

The concept of "entitlements" was introduced by _____.

  1. Pranab Mukherjee

  2. Amartya Sen

  3. Dr Manmohan Singh

  4. Sonia Gandhi
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In 1981, Amartya Sen published Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food. Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.

Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

A short-term loan at least interest rate was made available to the farmers through _____________.

  1. Kisan Credit Card Yojna

  2. Krishak Udhyami Loan Yojana

  3. Unified Package Insurance Scheme

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

Kisan Credit Card Yojna was formulated to provide short term loans to farmers for agricultural needs.The loan was provided at subsidized interest rates by the government if the borrower maintained a good credit history. An additional 2% subsidy was provided if the borrower managed a sound record during the term of the loan.