Most Important Questions on Poverty in India
1. Poverty line estimation in India is based on?
(a) Income Method
(b) Expenditure Method
(c) Consumption Method
(d) Consumption Basket
Answer C
2. What is absolute poverty?
(a) A set standard which is consistent over time and between countries
(b) An absolute kind of poverty
(c) A kind of poverty which will get eradicated soon
(d) A kind of poverty which goes on in a loop
Answer A
3. Who sets the poverty line in India?
(a) Lok Sabha
(b) Rajya Sabha
(c) NITI Aayog
(d) The Union Cabinet
Answer C
4. Which of the following poverty alleviation schemes emphasize on eradication of poverty by creating employment?
(a) Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana
(b) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
(c) Digital India
(d) ROSHNI
Answer D
5. The Multidimensional Poverty Index has replaced which of the following indexes?
(a) Global Poverty Index
(b) International Poverty Index
(c) Human Poverty Index
(d) Worldwide Poverty Index
Answer C
6. Which of the following statements regarding the Rangarajan Committee on Poverty estimate is correct?
(a) ‘Average calorie requirements ‘were estimated, separately for the all -India rural and urban areas.
(b) It disaggregated ‘All India poverty line’ to ‘State specific Poverty Line’.
(c) It adopted ‘Mixed Reference Period ‘in place of ‘Uniform reference period.
(d) All India poverty Ratio (rural and urban) was derived through ‘population based weighted average’ of poverty ratios of various states.
Answer C
7. What is the main cause of poverty in India?
(a) High income inequalities
(b) Less job opportunities
(c) High growth in population
(d) All of these
Answer D
8. In India, Poverty estimation below the Poverty Line, is based on which of the following factors?
(a) Income and Expenditure
(b) Income and Consumption
(c) Consumption and Expenditure
(d) Income and land holding capacity
Answer B
9. How is the poverty line calculated in India?
(a) The locality of their house
(b) Nature of employment
(c) Calorie consumption
(d) Standard of education
Answer C
10. Which one of these is not a cause of poverty in India?
(a) Low level of economic development
(b) Migration of people from rural to urban India
(c) Income inequalities
(d) Unequal distribution of land.
Answer D
11. Arrange the following committees set up for the methodology of poverty estimation in chronological order.
1. Lakdawala Committee
2. Tendulkar Committee
3. Alagh Committee
Choose the correct code from those below:
(a) 1, 2, 3
(b) 2, 3, 1
(c) 3, 1, 2
(d) 1, 3, 2
Answer C
12. According to the Suresh Tendulkar Committee which came out with fresh data on poverty, the Below Poverty Line (BPL) number is now
(a) 33%
(b) 35%
(c) 38%
(d) 40.5%
Answer C
13. Which of the following committees estimated the daily per capita expenditure?
(a) Malhotra Committee
(b) Tendulkar Committee
(c) Bhagwati Committee
(d) Hazari Committee
Answer B
14. Alagh Committee (1979) is associated with
(a) Wetland Conservation
(b) Western Ghats Conservation
(c) Poverty Line Estimation
(d) National Commission for Backward Caste
Answer C
15. Which of the following committees is not related to the poverty estimation in India?
(a) Alagh Committee
(b) Lakdawala Committee
(c) Rangarajan Committee
(d) K. Kasturirangan committee
Answer D
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