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Employment & Welfare Schemes (Part – IV)

📆 October 18, 2024

Total Questions: 50

1. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana was started in the year: [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2002, U.P.P.C.S. (Spl.) (Pre) 2004, U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2006, U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2002]

Correct Answer: (c) 1999
Solution:Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) was started from 1 April, 1999 after restructuring the erstwhile Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) and its 5 allied programmes (TRYSEM, DWCRA, SITRA, GKY and MWS). The basic objective of the SGSY was to bring the assisted BPL family above the poverty line by ensuring appreciable increase in income over a period of time. SGSY emphasized on mobilization of rural poor to enable them to organize into Self Help Groups. Training of beneficiaries in group processes and skill development were the integral part of SGSY. The programme aimed at establishing a large number of micro enterprises in rural areas based on the ability of the poor and potential of each area.

2. Which one of the following schemes has been restructured as National Rural Livelihood Mission, launched in June, 2011 by the Government of India? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2010, 2011]

Correct Answer: (c) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
Solution:National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India in June, 2011 by restructuring Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY). NRLM fully replaced the SGSY with effect from 1 April, 2013.

NRLM was renamed as DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission) w.e.f. 29 March, 2016 and is the flagship programme of Government of India for promoting poverty reduction through building strong institutions of poor, particularily women, and enabling these institutions to access a range of financial services and live- lihoods services.

3. How does the National Rural Livelihood Mission seek to improve livelihood options of rural poor? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2012]

1. By setting up a large number of new manufacturing industries and agribusiness centres in rural areas

2. By strengthening 'self-help groups' and providing skill development

3. By supplying seeds, fertilizers, diesel pump-sets and micro-irrigation equipment free of cost to farmers

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

Correct Answer: (b) 2 only
Solution:National Rural Livelihood Mission (Now DAY-NRLM) aims at creating efficient institutional platforms of the rural poor by strengthening self-help groups (SHGs) and providing skill development to enable them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services. NRLM has set out with an agenda to cover 7 crore rural poor households through self-man- toged SHGs and federated institution poor schodistore duce poverty by enabling the rural poor households to ac. cess gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis.

4. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2015]

TopicMatched Institution/Program
(a) Industrial FinanceSIDBI
(b) Social Security MeasuresBharat Nirman
(c) Rural CreditNABARD
(d) Rural EmploymentSJSRY
Correct Answer: (e) Both B and D
Solution:The objective of Swarnajayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY; launched on December 1, 1997), was to provide gain- ful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed. This scheme was not for rural employment. Social security measures were also not part of Bharat Nirman Programme. Hence, two of the given pairs are not correctly matched.

5. Schemes of (i) Urban Micro Enterprises, (ii) Urban Wage Employment, and (iii) Housing and Shelter Upgradation are parts of: [I.A.S. (Pre) 1997]

Correct Answer: (b) Nehru Rojgar Yojana
Solution:In order to alleviate the conditions of urban poor, a Centrally sponsored programme - Nehru Rojgar Yojana (NRY) was launched at the end of the Seventh Five Year Plan (October, 1989), with the objective of providing employment to the, urban unemployed and underemployed poor. The NRY consisted of three schemes namely (i) the Scheme of Urban Micro Enterprises (SUME) (ii) the Scheme of Urban Wage Employment (SUWE) (iii) the Scheme of Housing and Shelter Upgradation (SHASU).

6. The Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana which came into operation from 1-12-1997 aims to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed Shorinbe poor but does not include: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2000]

Correct Answer: (d) Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana
Solution:The Swarnajayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) was launched on 1 December, 1997 after subsuming the earlier three schemes for urban poverty alleviation, namely Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY), Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP) Programme, and Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP). Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana was not included in it. The key objective of the SJSRY was to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed poor through the setting up of self-employment ventures or provision of wage employment. It also provide supporting skill development and training programmes to enable the urban poor have access to employment opportunities opened up by the market or undertake self-employment.

7. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2002]

List-I (Programmes)List-II (Starting Year)
A. Krishi Shramik Samajik Suraksha Yojana1. 2000
B. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana2. 1993
C. Employment Assurance Scheme3. 1999
D. Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana4. 2001

Code:

ABCD
(a)1342
(b)3214
(c)3421
(d)4321
Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:The correctly matched lists are as follows:
ProgrammeStarting Year
Krishi Shramik Samajik Suraksha Yojana2001
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana1999
Employment Assurance Scheme1993
Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana2000

8. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists: [U.P.R.O/A.R.O. (Pre) 2016]

ProgrammeStarting Year
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana1997
Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana1989
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana1999
National Rural Health Mission2005

Codes:

ABCD
(a)1234
(b)2134
(c)3124
(d)4321
Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:The correctly matched lists are as follows:
ProgrammeStarting Year
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana1997
Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana1989
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana1999
National Rural Health Mission2005

 

9. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2022]

List-I (Yojana / Programme)List-II (Launching Year)
A.  National Rural Health Mission1. 1995
B.  National Social Assistance Programme2. 2005
C.  Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna3. 2001
D.  Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana4. 1999

Codes:

ABCD
(a)2143
(b)1234
(c)4213
(d)2413
Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:The correctly matched lists are as follows:
Yojana / ProgrammeLaunching Year
National Rural Health Mission2005
National Social Assistance Programme1995
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana1999
Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana2001

10. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2015]

Correct Answer: (c) MGNREGA - 2003
Solution:Janshree Bima Yojana was launched in the year 2000. National Rural Health Mission was started in April, 2005. Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana was started on 2 October, 2007. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 came into force on 2 February, 2006 and renamed as MGNREGA on 2 October, 2009.
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