Top 550+ Solved Indian Economy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Consider the following statements: [IAS 2004] 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
Q. 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
Q. 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
Q. 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
Q. 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? [RBI Grade B Officer 2011]
a. TRYSEM
b. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
c. Kutir Jyoti Scheme
d. MNREGA
Q. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swa-Rozgar Yojna came into being in : [UPPCS 2002]
a. April 1995
b. April 1997
c. April 1999
d. July 2001
Q. The Minimum Needs Programme aims to:
a. provide means for greater mechanization of agriculture
b. improve the living condition of the poor and also promote their education and health
c. provide necessary resources by way of refinance to primary lenders
d. None of these
Q. The Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) is an extension of:
a. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
b. National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)
c. Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)
d. Minimum Needs Programme (MNP)
Q. With reference to the Government of India's various programmes, what is NirmalGram Puraskar? [IAS 2006]
a. It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for the single girl child in families in villages.
b. It is an incentive scheme of scholarships for female sportspersons from villages who represent their states in any game.
c. It is an incentive scheme for schools in the villages for computer education.
d. It is an incentive scheme Panchayati Raj institutions.
Q. The strategic aim of IRDP is :
a. to reduce unemployment
b. to provide the required inputs for increasing agricultural productivity
c. to provide more opportunities for rural employment and credit facilities at concessional rate of interest
d. none of these
Q. Operation Blackboard aims at
a. promoting adult literacy
b. providing education to urban slum dwellers
c. opening of new schools specially for female children
d. providing primary education in an educationally backward area
Q. In India, present trend of rapid urbanisation is due to:
a. lack of employment opportunities in rural areas
b. influence of cinema and electronic media
c. break up of joint family system
d. abolition of zamindari system
Q. What is the minimum calorie intake decided by the Planning Commission for rural andurban areas, respectively ?
a. 2400 and 2100
b. 2100and 2400
c. 2400 and 2200
d. 2100 and 2200