Tag: employment: growth, informalisation and other issues

Questions Related to employment: growth, informalisation and other issues

Work Force Participation Rate (WPR) equals ___________________.

  1. number of persons in the Labour Force per 1000 persons of the Population

  2. number of persons employed per 1000 persons in the Labour-Force

  3. number or persons unemployed per 1000 persons the Labour-Force

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: B

If 9 people are Unemployed and 411 people are in the Work Force, then people in Labour Force___.

  1. 402

  2. 411

  3. 9

  4. 420


Correct Option: D

The ______ is defined as the number of persons in the Labor Force per 1000 persons.

  1. WPR

  2. LFPR

  3. CWS

  4. CDS


Correct Option: B

Find the odd one out among the following employment generation programmes:

  1. Urban self-employment programme.

  2. Urban wage-employment programme.

  3. Training of rural youth for self-employment.

  4. Integrated rural development programme.


Correct Option: D

Which of the following statements with regard to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), $2005$ is/are correct?
$1$. The legislation makes the Government legally bound to provide employment to those who seek it.
$2$. As a district is notified under the Act, the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana is automatically merged in the NREGA.
Select the correct answer using the code given.

  1. $1$ only

  2. $2$ only

  3. Both $1$ and $2$

  4. Neither $1$ nor $2$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, $2005$ was enacted on August $25$, $2005$. This scheme is now known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee SchemeĀ and Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) was merged into this scheme. The act aims at enhancing livelihood security to household in rural areas of country by provision of employment opportunities to those who are willing to work.

Which of the following factors has now put a check on a migration of agricultural labourers from one place to another in India?

  1. Lack of irrigation facilities

  2. Low productivity of land

  3. Single-crop cultivation

  4. Launch of MGNREGA and availability of employment opportunities locally


Correct Option: D

Under the new scheme of employment generation in the rural areas, all the ongoing schemes have been amalgamated with the _________.

  1. National Rural Employment Programme

  2. Jawahar Rozgar Yojna

  3. Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

  4. Intergrated Rural Development Programme


Correct Option: B

'Right to work' is referred as __________.

  1. MRTP.

  2. PMGRY.

  3. NREGA.

  4. IGAY.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

"Right to work" present under Article 41 of the constitution is enforced under the flagship programme of NREGA (now MGNREGA) by the government of India. The programme entitles every rural household to at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year.