Poverty, Unemployment and Welfare Schemes: Practice MCQs with Notes
Notes and 20 practice MCQs on Poverty, Unemployment and Welfare Schemes for OPSC ASO, OAS, OSSC and OSSSC.
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Poverty and unemployment
Poverty line committees: Lakdawala (1993), Tendulkar (2009), Rangarajan (2014). NITI Aayog's Multidimensional Poverty Index (based on OPHI–UNDP method): health, education, living standards.
Unemployment types: disguised (more workers than needed — agriculture), seasonal, structural, frictional, cyclical, educated. Measured by PLFS (NSO).
HDI by UNDP (Mahbub ul Haq); Gini coefficient for inequality.
Scheme
Key fact
MGNREGA
2005 Act, 2 Feb 2006 from Anantapur; 100 days' work; one-third women
DAY-NRLM
Rural livelihoods, SHGs (Aajeevika, 2011)
PMAY
Housing for all (2015)
PM-JAY (Ayushman Bharat)
₹5 lakh cover (2018, Ranchi)
NSAP
Old-age, widow, disability pensions (1995)
Atal Pension Yojana
2015, unorganised sector
PM SVANidhi
Street vendors (2020)
PM Vishwakarma
Artisans (2023)
Practice questions
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