Ans: National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)
2. The Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) was merged into which scheme in 1999?
Ans: Swarnajayanti Gram SwarozgarYojana (SGSY)
3. Which scheme aimed the eradication of poverty in rural India through the creation of self-employment?
Ans: SGSY
4. What was the basic component of the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)?
Ans: Self Help Groups (SHG)
5. Which poverty eradication program's flagship name is Ajeevika?
Ans: NRLM
6. In which year was the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) founded? Ans: 2005
7. ASFIA is an essential part of which scheme?
Ans: NHRM
8. Who is the nodal officer at District level for the National Food for Work Programme?
Ans: District Collector
9. In which year was the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) introduced?
Ans: 1975
10. Which scheme was launched onApril-1, 1989 by merging National Rural Employment Program (NREP) & Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)?
Ans: Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)
11. People belonging to which groups are entitled to the right to an Antyodaya Card?
Ans: Persons in the BPL list, Senior citizens & Persons belonging to a primitive tribe
12. The benefits of Balika Samridhi Yojana (BSY) are restricted to?
Ans: Two girl children in a household irrespective of number of children in the household
13. The beneficiaries of Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) are selected from?
Ans: The BPL list approved by the Grama Sabha
14. Improve enrolment and retention of girl children in Schools & raise the age at marriage of girls are the main objectives of?
Ans: Balika Samridhi Yojana
15. What is the popular name of Kerala's 'State Poverty Eradication Mission'?
Ans: Kudumbashree
16. Which is the grass root functionary of Kudumbashree?
Ans: NHS (Neighbourhood Groups)
17. In which year was the Pradhan Mantri Adharsh Gram Yojana formally Launched?
Ans: 2010
18. Which scheme targets the most vulnerable groups of population including children up to 6 years of age, pregnant woman and nursing mothers in rural areas, tribal areas & urban slums?
Ans: ICDS
19. Which is the thrust area of Valmiki Ambedkar Awaas Yojana?
Ans: Urban slums
20. In which year was the Andyodaya Anna Yojana launched?
Ans: December 25, 2000
21. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed in the year?
Ans: 2005
22. Which Prime Minister of India dedicated the Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Nana to the nation:
Ans: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
23. PMRY is primarily to assist which group?
Ans: Educated Unemployed youth
24. Which programme's three important components are micro credit, entrepreneurship & empowerment?
Ans: Kudumbashree
25. In which year the British Crown assumed sovereignty over India from the East India Company?
Ans: 1858
26. Who presented the Objective Resolution in the Constituent Assembly?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
27. Which Article of the Indian Constitution provides protection of traffic inhuman beings and forced labour?
Ans: Article 23
28. Which part of the Constitution embodies the ideal of Welfare State? Ans: Directive Principles of State Policy
29. Which Article makes the Supreme Court & a court of Record?
Ans: Article-129
30. Which Constitutional Amendment of 1988 lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
Ans: 61st Amendment
