Which scheme was started in 1993 to create self-employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural areas and small towns?

1. Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana.
2. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
3. Rural Employment Generation Programme.
4. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.

Who was the first to give the concept of poverty line in pre-independent India?

1. V.K.R.V.Rao.
2. Amartya Sen.
3. Dada Bhai Naroji.
4. R.C. Desai.

Amrtya Sen developed an index to measure poverty which is called:

1. Sen Index.
2. Poverty Gap Index.
3. Squared Gap Index.
4. Human Poverty Index.

Which among the following schemes was started in the year 2000 for the indigent senior citizens?

1. PDS
2. NFWP
3. SGSY
4. NAPS

Which of the following is not a major cause of poverty in india?

1. Low capital formation.
2. Lack of social/ welfare nets.
3. Social exclusion.
4. Migration of people from rural to urban India.

"Task Force on Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand' was formed in:

1. 1979
2. 1989
3. 2005
4. 1990

Which of these is not a cause of low productivity?

1. General factors.
2. Institutional factors.
3. Social factors.
4. Technological factors.

Which one of the following groups is vulnerable to poverty?

1. Scheduled caste.
2. Landless agricultural labourer.
3. Urban agricultural household.
4. All of the above.

Small farmers or seasonal workers who regularly move in and out of poverty, fall in the category of:

1. Chronic poor.
2. Never poor.
3. Churning poor.
4. Usually poor.

For how many days NREGA guarantees employment?

1. 70
2. 80
3. 90
4. 150