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Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 40mins
What is Extreme poverty?
Living on less than $10 per day
Living on less than $5 per day
Living on less than $2.5 per day
Living on less than $1.9 per day
What is poverty itself?
When you don't have money
When your basic needs aren't met
When your begging in th streets
When you don't have a job
True or False? Poor people lose the right to social security and participation in society
True
False
Sometimes true and sometimes false
True or False? Poor people get all their rights like others
True
False
Sometimes true and sometimes false
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
In Pre-Independent India who among the following first to discuss the concept of a poverty line?
VKRV RAO
WILLIAM DIGBY
R C DESAI
DADABHAI NAOROJI
What is Head count ratio?
Total number of people in a country
Proportion of people below poverty line.
percentage of people above poverty line
Total number of poor in a country
Which of the following organisation collect data on poverty in India?
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
National Sample survey organisation (NSSO)
Census of India
None of the above
The national level poverty line consider it as 22%. Find with the help of diagram In which of the following state ratio of poor are lesser?
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Gujarat
The Poverty line in India is prepared on the basis of
Income of individual
consumption expenditure
National income
Per capita income
The minimum calorie requirement in Rural areas to decide poverty line is
2100 calories
2400 calories
2600 calories
2000 calories
SGSY stands for
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Swarozgar Yojana
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swathantrar Yojana
Sampoorna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Which of the following programme ia also known as National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
Swarna jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY)
Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (REGP)
Which of the following is wage employment Programme?
Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Identify the programme which aim at improving the food and nutritional status of the poor?
Public Distribution System (PDS)
Integrated Child Development Scheme(ICDS)
Midday meal scheme( MDMS)
All of the above
Assume the total population of a country is 200 crores and the people below poverty line is 44 crores. What is the Head Count ratio?
20 percent
25 percent
22 percent
26 percent
The educated unemployed from low income families in rural and urban areas can get financial help to set up any kind of enterprise is known as
(a)
Which scheme encouraged people to open bank account in 2004?
Integrated Child development scheme
Public distribution system
National old age scheme
Jan Dhan Yojana
Which one of the following is/are the feature of MGNREGA?
(a)Self employment by providing bank loans
(b)100 days of guaranteed employment
(c )It is a wage employment programme
both (b) and (c )
Under which scheme each bank account holder is entitled to Rs.1 lakh accident insurance Rs.30,000 insurance cover?
Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana
MGNREGA
Jan Dhan Yojana
PMRY
Which one of the following is the problem of poverty alleviation Programmes?
Lack of resources
improper implementation
Lack of infrastructure
All of the above
Poverty alleviation programmes are implemented with the help of which of the following programme from 1990 onwards?
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Self-help Group
MGNREGA
None of the above
National food for work programme was launched in
15 November 2015
14 November 2012
14 November 2004
2 February 2006
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
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
Poverty and inequality during an epidemic lead to...
Everyone being more likely to get coronavirus
More people dying from coronavirus
Both
Neither
Which of the following is one of the poorest state in India?
Punjab
Himachal Pradesh
Bihar
Haryana
