CUET 2024 Economics Current challenges facing Indian Economy – Poverty MCQ Question Answers

1. ______ Organization or institution Collect statistics on Poverty in India

2. Self-Employment Programmes Implemented are / is

3. From 2014, a scheme called Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana Was available in which people in India are encouraged to _____

4. Under Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, each bank account holder is also entitled to______ accidental insurance cover

5. MPCE Full form in The Context of Poverty Chapter

6. In August 2005, the Parliament passed a new Act to provide guaranteed wage employment to every rural household whose adult volunteer is to do unskilled manual work for a minimum of 100 days in a year. This is known as

7. Mr Anand, who is rich most of the time but may sometimes have a patch of bad luck. And then he gets poor. What categorical group he can be classified to

8. National Social Assistance Programme is one such programme initiated by the central government which Helped _________

9. There are many factors, other than income and assets, which are associated with poverty; the accessibility to _____

10. Who Founded the concept of Jail Cost of Living?

11. The official data on poverty is now made available to the public by the NITI Aayog. What is NITI Aayog now Popularly Known as?

12. In 2011-12, the poverty line was defined for rural areas as consumption worth _____ per person a month and for urban areas it was _____

13. When the number of poor is estimated as the proportion of people below the poverty line, it is known as

14. _____have also failed to address a majority of vulnerable people who are living on or just above the poverty line

15. Nearly _____crore households get employment opportunities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)

16. Poverty Index Developed by Nobel laureate Amartya sen is called as

17. In Which two years expert Groups Were Constituted for the purpose to come up with mechanism to find number of poor in India

18. In pre-independent India, _______was the first to discuss the concept of a Poverty Line

19. Poverty line divides the Population into Poor and ______

20. British policies involved sharply raising rural taxes that enabled merchants and moneylenders to become