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Questions Related to unemployment and employment generation

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

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

  1. Urban self-employment programme.

  2. Urban wage-employment programme.

  3. Training of rural youth for self-employment.

  4. Integrated rural development programme.

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Correct Option: D

The Lead Bank Scheme was introduced in ___________.

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

  1. 1965

  2. 1969

  3. 1971

  4. 1973

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Correct Option: B

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.

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

  1. $1$ only

  2. $2$ only

  3. Both $1$ and $2$

  4. Neither $1$ nor $2$

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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 Scheme 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?

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

  1. Lack of irrigation facilities

  2. Low productivity of land

  3. Single-crop cultivation

  4. Launch of MGNREGA and availability of employment opportunities locally

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Correct Option: D

Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana was launched in ________.

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

  1. 1995

  2. 2001

  3. 1999

  4. 2004

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Correct Option: C

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

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

  1. National Rural Employment Programme

  2. Jawahar Rozgar Yojna

  3. Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

  4. Intergrated Rural Development Programme

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Correct Option: B

'Right to work' is referred as __________.

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

  1. MRTP.

  2. PMGRY.

  3. NREGA.

  4. IGAY.

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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.

The aim of Prime Minister Rozgar Yozana (PMRY) is to create self-employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural ares and _________.

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

  1. Big towns

  2. Small towns

  3. States

  4. Big cities

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The aim of Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) is to create self-employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural areas and small towns due to the absence of infrastructure and other facilities in small towns.

Wagering Agreements void _______.

economics theories of employment and income measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. in all of India

  2. in all of India except Jammu & Kashmir

  3. in all of India except Mumbai

  4. in all of India except Calcutta

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Correct Option: C

Population growth at a high rate reduces employment opportunities and slows down capital formation (True or False).

economics theories of employment and income measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Can't say

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A