planning economic development & five year plans section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is an Indian law that aims to guarantee the ‘right to work’ and ensures livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. MNREGA was launched in 200 select districts in 2006.

However, Indira Awas Yojana was launched in the 9th Five Year Plan to provide housing for the rural poor in India.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

According to The National Food for Work Programme, food subsidy should be better targeted through targeted public distribution system and specific programmes for the poor like Food for Work Programme.

The National Food for Work Programme was launched on 14 November 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. The Planning commission is not a constitutional body.

Answer: (a)

Mahalanobis committee is known as “ Distribution of Income and Levels of Living” and it was set up in 1960 to find an answer to the question that who was benefitted by the first and second five year plans, as there was no substantial increase in the per capita income of the people.