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The third approach to addressing poverty is to provide minimum basic amenities to the people. This was followed from the  _________.

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  1. third five year plan

  2. fifth five year plan

  3. fourth five year plan

  4. none of the above

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
The third approach to addressing poverty is to provide minimum basic amenities to the people. Programmes under this approach are expected to supplement the consumption of the poor, create employment opportunities and bring about improvements in health and education. One can trace this approach from the Fifth Five Year Plan.

Micro credit or micro-finance is a novel approach to banking with the poor. In this approach, bank credit is extended to the poor through _________.

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  1. Self-Help Groups

  2. Anganwadi

  3. Cooperative Credit Societies

  4. RBI

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Micro-credit: Micro-credit is the provision of thrift, credit and other financial services and products of very small amount to the poor in rural, semi-urban and urban areas for enabling them to raise their income levels and improve living standards. The micro-credit institutions are those which provide these facilities.
Self Help Groups: A self-help group is a registered or unregistered group of micro-entrepreneurs having homogeneous social and economic background voluntarily coming together to save small amounts regularly, to mutually agree to contribute to a common fund and to meet their emergency needs on mutual help basis. The group members use collective wisdom and peer pressure to ensure proper end-use of credit and timely repayment thereof.

Which of the following is/are commodity/ies on which subsidy is given to farmers/poor in India?
A. Fertilizer
B. Kerosene
C. LPG

social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development role of the government in health

  1. Only (A)

  2. Only (B)

  3. Only (C)

  4. All (A), (B) and (C)

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Correct Option: D

Poverty alleviating programmes are also known as employment generation programmes because ______.

social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development role of the government in health

  1. the programmes say so

  2. the programmes have evolved to be called so

  3. they are aimed at alleviating poverty through employment generation

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Poverty is the major issue in the country. Most of the population of India are below poverty line. Poverty alleviation programmes plays a major role to improve financial conditions by providing employment. Several steps are taken for employment like for example:- Jawahar Rozgaar Yojna. Poverty alleviation additionally includes improving the living states of individuals who are poor. 
Hence, option C is correct.

Organisation of workers in which of the following groups has proved a very effective way of providing micro finance by banks to the rural people and poor in India?

social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development role of the government in health

  1. Self Help Groups

  2. Vriksha Mitras

  3. Shiksha Sevaks

  4. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)

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Correct Option: A

In the $5th$ plan though removal of poverty was mentioned as a major objective, only a passing reference was made to the problem of ____________________.

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  1. economic inequalities

  2. population growth

  3. industrial stagnation

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Which of the following were the long term objectives of economic planning in India up to the $7th$ plan?

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  1. economic growth

  2. self reliance

  3. Removal of unemployment

  4. reduction of income inequalities and elimination of poverty

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Correct Option: D

Until the late $1970s$ decision makers in the government and the planning commission were of the view that?

social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development role of the government in health

  1. Trickle down effect of growth could alleviate poverty

  2. Only special programmes can reduce the incidence of poverty in India

  3. Land reforms and agricultural development can make a serious dent on the incidence of poverty, as most of the poor resided in rural areas.

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

The forced labour has reduced the _______________ of the children. 

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  1. Intellectual Health

  2. Physical Health

  3. Both

  4. None

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In India employing children in begging for illegal gains is an offence both legally and morally. It obstructs the development of child while ruining the future prospects for him/her. Children are being forced to work in hazardous employment which deteriorate their physical health while their intellectual development is halted by not being able to go to school at enjoy freedom at the tender age.

Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) was introduced to combine, which of the following?

social science public health and the government food security and related aspects food security rural development role of the government in health

  1. IRDP and Million Wells Scheme (MWS)

  2. IRDP and Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS)

  3. IRDP and Minimum Wages Act

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A