Tag: unemployment and employment generation

Questions Related to unemployment and employment generation

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Defective education system causes _____ unemployment.

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

  1. educated

  2. technological

  3. frictional

  4. rural

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Correct Option: A

Labour Force consists of ________.

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

  1. all people officially employed or unemployed

  2. all people over the age of 18 but less than 58 years of age

  3. all youth having passed matriculate examination

  4. all the three

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Correct Option: A

Jawahar Rojgar Yojana was introduced in _______.

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

  1. 1980

  2. 1989

  3. 1986

  4. 1964

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Correct Option: B

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched in ________.

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

  1. Dec. 2004

  2. Dec. 2003

  3. Dec. 2000

  4. Dec. 1999

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Correct Option: C

Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana was launched in  __________.

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

  1. 2004

  2. 2003

  3. 2000

  4. 2001

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Correct Option: D

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was announced on ________.

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

  1. 2nd February 2006

  2. 2nd October 2006

  3. 1st April 2009

  4. 31st December 2009

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Correct Option: A

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Actwas announced on ________.

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

  1. 2nd February 2006

  2. 2nd October 2006

  3. 1st April 2009

  4. 31st December 2009

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Correct Option: D

What is Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act?

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

  1. 100 days manual work of unskilled nature in a financial year to rural adult willing to work but unable to get employment

  2. 120 days skilled work every six month

  3. Work during off seasons to all adult workers

  4. 100 days work to skilled workers

  5. Poverty and Poverty Elimination Schemes

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Correct Option: A

__________ is the implementing agency of Employment Assurance scheme.

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

  1. Nagar Nigam

  2. Gram Sabha

  3. Zilla Parishad

  4. Local Panchayat

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Correct Option: C

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was enacted on _________.

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

  1. 25th August 2005

  2. 2nd October 2006

  3. 1st April 20093

  4. 1st December 2009

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Correct Option: A