UPSC Social Justice – Chapter 17: Poverty Alleviation – Wage Employment and Social Assistance (20 MCQs)
UPSC Social Justice – Chapter 17: Poverty Alleviation – Wage Employment and Social Assistance (20 MCQs) – 20 questions, subject: Social Justice. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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The right to work and to public assistance in old age is mentioned in:
Correct Answer: D [Article 41]
Explanation:
Article 41, a Directive Principle, asks the State to secure the right to work, education and public assistance in old age.
Work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act began on:
Correct Answer: B [2 February 2006]
Explanation:
The Act came into force on 2 February 2006, when work began in 200 districts; all rural districts were covered from 2008.
Under MGNREGA, if work was not given within the time limit, the applicant was entitled to:
Correct Answer: D [an unemployment allowance]
Explanation:
paid by the State.
Under MGNREGA, the minimum share of women among beneficiaries was:
Correct Answer: D [one-third]
Explanation:
The Act required that at least one-third of the beneficiaries be women who had registered and asked for work.
The VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 guarantees wage employment per rural household per year of:
Correct Answer: A [125 days]
Explanation:
The VB-G RAM G Act raised the guarantee from MGNREGA's 100 days to 125 days per rural household each year.
The VB-G RAM G Act came into force on:
Correct Answer: B [1 July 2026]
Explanation:
The VB-G RAM G Act took effect across rural India on 1 July 2026, replacing MGNREGA from that date.
Under the VB-G RAM G Act, States may notify a pause in works during peak agricultural seasons of up to:
Correct Answer: C [60 days]
Explanation:
States may notify in advance a pause of up to 60 days a year in peak sowing and harvesting seasons.
DAY-NRLM was launched in 2011 under the name:
Correct Answer: D [Aajeevika]
Explanation:
The National Rural Livelihoods Mission was launched in June 2011 as Aajeevika and later renamed DAY-NRLM.
PM SVANidhi gives working capital loans to:
Correct Answer: B [street vendors]
Explanation:
2020.
Consider the following statements about the National Social Assistance Programme:
1. It began in 1995.
2. It is run by the Ministry of Rural Development.
3. It covers only rural areas.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
NSAP began on 15 August 1995 and is run by the Ministry of Rural Development; it covers urban areas too, so 3 is false.
Assertion (A): Social audit was built into the rural employment guarantee.
Reason (R): Social audit lets the people who benefit verify records and works in a public meeting of the Gram Sabha.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
Social audit was built into the Act (Section 17) precisely so beneficiaries could verify records and works in the Gram Sabha.
Under the National Family Benefit Scheme, the one-time assistance on the death of the primary breadwinner is:
Correct Answer: C [₹20,000]
Explanation:
NFBS gives a one-time ₹20,000 to a BPL family when its primary breadwinner aged 18–59 dies.
Annapurna, a part of NSAP, gives:
Correct Answer: A [10 kg of free food grains a month to eligible elderly not receiving a pension]
Explanation:
Annapurna gives 10 kg of free food grains a month to eligible senior citizens who do not receive the old-age pension.
The Aspirational Districts Programme was launched in 2018 by:
Correct Answer: C [NITI Aayog]
Explanation:
112 districts.
The Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (1999) replaced:
Correct Answer: A [Integrated Rural Development Programme]
Explanation:
SGSY, launched in 1999, replaced IRDP and its allied programmes with a self-help-group-based self-employment scheme.
The central old-age pension under IGNOAPS (renamed Pradhan Mantri Vridhavastha Pension Yojana in October 2026) for a BPL person aged 85 is:
Correct Answer: B [₹500 a month]
Explanation:
The central old-age pension is ₹200 a month for ages 60–79 and ₹500 a month from age 80, so ₹500 at 85.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. IRDP in all blocks
2. VB-G RAM G Act in force
3. National Social Assistance Programme
4. DAY-NRLM (Aajeevika)
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [1-3-4-2]
Explanation:
1980, 1995, 2011, 2026.
The Aspirational Blocks Programme (2023) covers about:
Correct Answer: D [500 blocks]
Explanation:
The Aspirational Blocks Programme, launched by NITI Aayog in January 2023, covers 500 blocks across the country.
Town vending committees are provided under the:
Correct Answer: D [Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014]
Explanation:
The Street Vendors Act, 2014 sets up town vending committees to survey vendors and regulate vending in each town.
The Tendulkar Committee estimated the share of India's population below the poverty line in 2004–05 at:
Correct Answer: B [37.2 per cent]
Explanation:
The Tendulkar Committee put the 2004–05 poverty ratio at 37.2 per cent, against 27.5 per cent by the earlier method.
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