1. Consider the following statements:
1. Hariyali is a watershed development project sponsored by the Central Government.
2. Hariyali also aims at enabling the urban population to conserve rain water.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
2. The Food For Work programme was renamed as:
(a) Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)
(b) National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
(c) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)
(d) Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
3. Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana aims at:
(a) meeting rural needs like Primary education; health care, drinking water, housing, rural
roads
(b) alleviating poverty micro-enterprises
(c) generating employment in the rural areas
(d) strengthening the Panchayati Raj System in rural areas
4. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a) Under the Targeted Public Distribution System, the families Below Poverty Line are
provided 50 kg. of food grains per month per family at subsidised price
(b) Under Annapurna Scheme, indigent senior citizens of 65 years of age or above eligible
for National Old Age Pension but not getting pension can get 10 kg of food grains per person
per month free of cost
(c) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has scheme in which indigent people living
in welfare institutions like orphanges are given 15 kg of food grains per person per month at
BPL rates
(d) Ministry of Human Resource Development gives financial support to Mid-Day Meal
Scheme for the benefit of class I to V students in Government or Government aided Schools
5. Consider the following statements:
1. The loans disbursed to farmers under Kisan Credit Card Scheme are covered under
Rashtriya Krishi Beema Yojna of Life Insurance Corporation of India.
2. The Kisan Credit Card holders are provided personal accident insurance of Rs.50000 for
accidental death and Rs. 25000 for permanent disability.
Which of the statement given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 or 2
6. DWCRA stands for:
(a) Development and Welfare of Catchment Rural Areas
(b) Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
(c) Direct Welfare of Children in Rural Areas
(d) All of the above
7. Which one of the following is a revamp of the Integrated Rural Development
Programme?
(a) Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
(b) Community-based Pro-poor Initiative
(c) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
(d) National Social Assistance Programme
8. What is the main objective of Antyodaya programme?
(a) Uplift the poor
(b) Uplift the urban poor
(c) Uplift the farmer
(d) Uplift the landless labour
9. Which of the following schemes launched by the Govt. of India aims at enhancing the
livelihood security of the people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of
employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to
do unskilled manual work?
(a) TRYSEM
(b) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
(c) Kutir Jyoti Scheme
(d) MNREGA
10. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna came into being in :
(a) April 1995
(b) April 1997
(c) April 1999
(d) July 2001