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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which is not a cause of poverty?
Higher education
Poor health facilities
Poor infrastructure
High growth of population
Which is a measure to remove poverty?
Employment opportunities
Low production
Less income
More big cars
The proportion of poor is highest in
West bengal
Bihar
Jharkhand
Madhya Pradesh
National food security act was passed in
2013
2014
2015
2017
Annapurna scheme is meant for
Poor rural households
Poor urban households
Women and children
Poor senior citizens of 65 years and above
Absolute poverty refers to
Comparative poverty
Poverty with respect to different regions
Number of people living below poverty line
Per capita income
Which of the following helps in eradicating poverty?
Reducing income inequality
Check on price rise
Controlling growth of population
All of the above
Under MGNREGS guaranteed wage employment is provided for
365 days
200 days
100 days
150 days
Sampoorna grameen rozgar yojana aims at
Setting up of infrastructure and creation of employment
Providing food grains
Guaranteed wage employment
Public distribution system
National food for work programme was launched in
15 November 2015
14 November 2012
14 November 2004
2 February 2006
AAM ADMI BIMA YOJNA covers persons from backward section of the society of age:
18 to59 years
16 to 50 years
18 to 50 years
None of the above
Which state in india has more than 40 percent people belong to rural poverty?
Bihar
Jharkhand
Orissa
U.P.
Which of the following food scheme is launched by the indian govt.?
Mid day meal scheme
Annapurna scheme
Integrated child development scheme
All of these
Which programme govt. Adopted to help elderly people and destitute women?
Food for work
Public distribution system
National social assistance programme
All of these
Which scheme imparts skill training for self and wage employment by providing credit at subsidized rate?
National urban livelihood mission
MGNREGS
Sampoorna grameen rozgar yojna
None of these
MPCE stands for
Monthly per capita expenditure
Minimum per capita expenditure
Maximum per capita expenditure
None of the above
Which organization collect data on poverty in India?
NSSO
SJSRY
CENSUS
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Scheme for construction of home to be given to the poor free of cost:
Jawahar awas yojna
Rajeev awas yojna
Indira awas yojna
All of the above
The people who move up and down the poverty line are called
Chronic poor
Occasionally poor
Non poor
Churning poor
Which poverty indicates towards the large inequalities of income in the society?
Absolute
Relative
Both absolute and relative
None of the above
