planning economic development & five year plans section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 1

The Employment Assurance Scheme envisages financial assistance to rural areas for guaranteeing employment to at least

a) 50 per cent of the men seeking jobs in the rural areas

b) 50 per cent of the men and women seeking jobs in rural areas

c) one person in a rural landless house hold living below the poverty line

d) one man and one women in a rural family living below the poverty line

Question : 2

In India, the concept of minimum needs and directed anti-poverty programmes were the innovation of :

a) Fifth Five Year Plan

b) Sixth Five Year Plan

c) Fourth Five Year Plan

d) Seventh Five Year Plan

Question : 3

Which of the following five year plans had the objectives of rapid industrialization, increase in the national income, expansion of the opportunities for employment and reduction in the inequalities with respect to income and wealth?

a) 5 th five year plan

b) 4 th five year plan

c) 2 nd five year plan

d) 7 th five year plan

Question : 4

Which of the following is not one of the International Development Targets of the Millennium Development Goals?

a) Universal primary education by 2015

b) Reducing the number of persons living in extreme poverty by one half of 2015

c) Reducing the total population by 1/3rd

d) Reduction of infant and child mortality by 2/3rd by 2015

Question : 5

The concept of sustainable development relates to

a) Intergenerational equity

b) Exhaustible resources

c) Consumption levels

d) Social Equity