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question_answer1) What kind of people in India are considered poor?
question_answer2) Has India the largest single concentration of the poor in the world?
question_answer3) What are the dimensions of poverty?
question_answer4) What is one of the biggest challenges of independent India?
question_answer5) What are the social indicators of poverty as seen by social scientists?
question_answer6) What is the concept of social reclusion?
question_answer7) How is social exclusion practiced in India?
question_answer8) What is the vulnerability of poverty?
question_answer9) How vulnerability to poverty is determined?
question_answer10) What is 'poverty line'?
question_answer11) When is a person considered poor?
question_answer12) How does a country measure its poverty?
question_answer13) How is poverty line determined in India?
question_answer14) How is the food requirement estimated in poverty line?
question_answer15) What is the accepted average calorie requirement in India?
question_answer16) Why is the calorie requirement of rural areas more than that in urban areas?
question_answer17) How much amount is needed to fulfill minimum calorie requirement in rural and urban areas?
question_answer18) How is poverty line estimated periodically?
question_answer19) Which social groups are most vulnerable to poverty?
question_answer20) Among the economic groups which are most vulnerable to poverty?
question_answer21) How are women, children and old people the poorest of the poor?
question_answer22) Which states of India are the poorest?
question_answer23) Which states of India have seen a significant decline in poverty?
question_answer24) How have Kerala and West Bengal reduced their poverty?
question_answer25) How has poverty reduced in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu?
question_answer26) How are China and South Eastern Asian Countries able to control poverty?
question_answer27) What is the historical cause of poverty in India?
question_answer28) How did unemployment lead to poverty?
question_answer29) What are the causes of huge income inequalities in rural areas?
question_answer30) What are the socio-cultural and economic factors responsible for poverty?
question_answer31) Which are the two planks on which anti-poverty strategy of the government is based?
question_answer32) How is economic growth linked with poverty reduction in India?
question_answer33) What is the full form of MGNREGA?
question_answer34) What are the conditions of MGNREGA?
question_answer35) What was the National Food for Work Programme?
question_answer36) What does PMRY stand for?
question_answer37) What is Rural Employment Generation Programme?
question_answer38) What were the targets of SGSY?
question_answer39) What was PMGY?
question_answer40) What is India's most compelling challenge?
question_answer41) What are the bigger challenges before India?
question_answer42) What are the dimensions of poverty?
question_answer43) How is poverty viewed by social scientists?
question_answer44) What does 'social exclusion' mean?
question_answer45) How is vulnerability to poverty measured?
question_answer46) What is the trend of poverty estimates since 1973? Or Describe poverty trends in India since 1973.
question_answer47) How do income inequalities exist within a family?
question_answer48) Which states are most vulnerable to poverty in India?
question_answer49) Which states report a significant decline in poverty?
question_answer50) What are the major reasons for the less effectiveness of poverty alleviation programmes?
question_answer51) What challenges are ahead of India with respect to poverty alleviation?
question_answer52) How is poverty reduction expected to be better?
question_answer53) What are the main features of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005?
question_answer54) Describe the term 'NFWP'.
question_answer55) What is the status of poverty in scheduled caste, or scheduled tribe?
question_answer56) How is the poverty line determined? Or Describe how the poverty line is estimated in India.
question_answer57) Which groups are most vulnerable to poverty? Or Identify social and economic groups are most vulnerable to poverty in India.
question_answer58) What is the global poverty scenario?
question_answer59) What are the main causes of poverty? Or Describe the major reasons for poverty in India.
question_answer60) What is the current anti-poverty strategy of the government for the promotion of economic growth?
question_answer61) Mention some anti-poverty programmes undertaken by the government.
question_answer62) State the various Poverty Alleviation Programmes introduced by the government to remove poverty.
question_answer63) What is the concept of poverty line? How does it vary with time and place?
question_answer64) What is the methodology of calculating poverty line?
question_answer65) How is the poverty line determined? Or Describe how the poverty line is estimated in India.
question_answer66) Which groups are most vulnerable to poverty? Or Identify social and economic groups are most vulnerable to poverty in India.
question_answer67) What is the global poverty scenario?
question_answer68) What are the main causes of poverty? Or Describe the major reasons for poverty in India.
question_answer69) What is the current anti-poverty strategy of the government for the promotion of economic growth?
question_answer70) Mention some anti-poverty programmes undertaken by the government.
question_answer71) State the various Poverty Alleviation Programmes introduced by the government to remove poverty.
question_answer72) What is the concept of poverty line? How does it vary with time and place?
question_answer73) What is the methodology of calculating poverty line?
question_answer74) Give five indicators of poverty.
question_answer75) What is the criteria for poverty measurement in India?
question_answer76) Can you give five measures taken by the government to alleviate poverty?
question_answer77) What challenges do you think India faces in years to come?
question_answer78) On the basis of the survey 2000, the poverty line of a person in India was fixed at: (a) ` 328 per month for the rural areas and at ` 454 for the urban areas. (b) ` 320 per month for the rural areas and at ` 454 for the urban areas. (c) ` 318 per month for the rural areas and at ` 454 for the urban areas. (d) ` 322 per month for the rural areas and at ` 454 for the urban areas.
question_answer79) In which of the following states there is a significant decline in poverty? (a) West Bengal (b) Assam (c) Bihar (d) Tripura
question_answer80) Among which of the following countries, did the ratio of poverty remain the same? (a) India (b) South America (c) China (d) None of these
question_answer81) The full form of NFWP is (a) National Fund for Work Pvt. Ltd. (b) National Food for Work Programme (c) National Food for World Programme (d) None of these
question_answer82) What is the average number of calories required per person per day in rural areas of India?
question_answer83) When was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) passed?
question_answer84) Why is the calorie requirement of people higher in rural areas compared to urban areas?
question_answer85) Which state out of Bihar, Odisha, Punjab and Assam has the highest poverty ratio?
question_answer86) Which state out of West Bengal Maharashtra, Assam and Uttar Pradesh has a poverty ratio below the national average?
question_answer87) In what part of the world has poverty remained the same between 1981 to 2001?
question_answer88) What are the major reasons for ineffectiveness of anti-poverty measures in India?
question_answer89) Which section of the population is the target for REGP and AAY anti-poverty programmes?
question_answer90) Which section of the population is the target for SGSY and NREGA programmes?
question_answer91) Is it correct that India has the largest concentration of poor in the world?
question_answer92) Can social exclusion cause poverty in rural areas?
question_answer93) What do we mean by the term 'vulnerability to poverty?
question_answer94) Which agency conducts the periodical sample surveys for estimating the poverty line in India?
question_answer95) Which indicators out of quantity of milk consumed, amount of pocket money received, illiteracy level and the number of shoes people have, are social indicators of poverty?
question_answer96) Which groups out of the categories of landless agricultural labourers, daily wage construction labourers or teachers in government schools are likely to face poverty in urban areas?
question_answer97) Which major anti-poverty programme was launched in the year 2000?
question_answer98) In which year was the National Food for Work Programme (NFWP) launched?
question_answer99) Which method is used to estimate the poverty line in India?
question_answer100) Which region of the world has witnessed an increase in poverty during the period 1981-2001?
question_answer101) Which indicators out of illiteracy level, lack of access to healthcare, inadequate safe drinking water and ample job opportunities are not social indicators of poverty?
question_answer102) Which economic groups out of rural agricultural labour households. Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) households, urban casual labour households and female daily wagers are vulnerable to poverty?
question_answer103) Is it true that the state of Kerala has reduced poverty by distribution of foodgrains at highly subsidised prices?
question_answer104) By what method has the state of West Bengal reduced rural poverty?
question_answer105) Which of the government anti-poverty programmes are not employment or self-employment related?
question_answer106) What are the factors of human poverty?
question_answer107) How is regular growth of population one of the major causes of poverty?
question_answer108) Describe how the poverty line is estimated in India. Or Explain some ways by which the poverty line is estimated in India.
question_answer109) Mention the social and economic groups which are more vulnerable to poverty in India. Or Identify the social and economic groups which are most vulnerable to poverty in India.
question_answer110) "India has been witnessing high population growth since years." Your school principal has constituted a team of boys to spread awareness about the ill-effects of high population growth in the slum area. You are the team leader. Which issue will you suggest to your fellow members to focus on awareness drive?
question_answer111) (a) 'In poor families, all suffer, but some suffer more than others'. Explain. Or Who are the poorest of the poor? (b) What values/lesson have you learnt from the given question?
question_answer112) Explain colonial rule and income inequalities as causes of poverty.
question_answer113) Which circumstances compelled the government to start targeted anti-poverty programmes? Mention the names of any two such programmes.
question_answer114) Describe the poverty trends in India since 1973.
question_answer115) (a) Mention the two planks on which the current anti-poverty strategy of the government is based. (b) Why were the poverty alleviation programmes not successful in most parts of India?
question_answer116) Give one factor responsible for reduction in poverty in the following states (a) Punjab (b) Kerala (c) Paschim Banga (d) Andhra Pradesh Or Why has there been a significant decline in poverty in some states of India? Mention any four reasons.
question_answer117) What do you understand by human poverty?
question_answer118) Give a brief description of the global poverty trends.
question_answer119) State the most responsible factor for the significant decline in poverty in the State of Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
question_answer120) Describe one factor each for the success of Haryana, Kerala and West Bengal in reducing poverty.
question_answer121) How far is it correct to say that social exclusion can be both a cause as well as a consequence of poverty? Explain
question_answer122) "Poverty is a curse upon humanity". Explain.
question_answer123) What is poverty line? What are the different ways to estimate poverty? Who conducts the sample surveys to estimate poverty lines?
question_answer124) "The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state" Justify the statement. Or Why is the population of poor people not the same in every state? Explain in three points.
question_answer125) Give an account of inter-state disparities in poverty in India. Or Explain briefly inter-state disparities of poverty in India. Or Give a brief account of inter-state disparities of poverty in India.
question_answer126) What is social exclusion? Give one example of it.
question_answer127) The Government of India has initiated many poverty alleviation programmes. Below are given some such programmes (a) PMRY (b) REGP (c) SGSY (d) PMGY (e) NFWP (f) NREGA (g)AAY. In your view, which one is the central feature of each of these programmes?
question_answer128) Describe global poverty trends.
question_answer129) Explain four important anti-poverty measures undertaken by the Government of India. Or Write a note on any four programmes that have been developed for the eradication of poverty in India.
question_answer130) Mention any three features of the NREGA, 2005. Or What are the main features of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005?
question_answer131) "In India majority of population lives below poverty lines. Government is taking pain to lessen poverty". Your are the member of the commission appointed to suggest the - areas/issues concerned. Which issues would you suggest regarding poverty alleviation?
question_answer132) Explain any four important causes of poverty in India. Or Discuss the major reasons for poverty in India.
question_answer133) "The failure on both the fronts, promotion of economic growth and population control, perpetuated the cycle of poverty" Comment on this statement.
question_answer134) What is poverty line? What are the calories and rupees fixed for rural and urban areas for measuring the poverty line?
question_answer135) Describe the global poverty scenario as studied by the World Bank. Or Explain any five features of the global poverty scenario. Or Describe three distinct features of global poverty scenario.
question_answer136) "There is a strong link between economic growth and poverty reduction." Explain the statement. Or Do you think economic growth is linked with the reduction of poverty? Give any three arguments in support of your answer.
question_answer137) How is the poverty line in India determined? Explain the methods. Or Explain how the poverty line is determined in India? Mention any two determinats.
question_answer138) Who are the most vulnerable as far as poverty is concerned? How have the states of West Bengal, Punjab and Tamil Nadu tackled poverty?
question_answer139) How can poverty be reduced in future in India? Suggest any four points.
question_answer140) How is poverty interpreted by the social scientists? Explain. Or "Since poverty has many facets, social scientists look at it through a variety of indicators." In the light of this statement mention any three indicators.
question_answer141) (a) What is poverty line? (b) What are the calories and rupees fixed for rural and urban areas of measuring poverty line? Or Define the term poor and what is accepted average calories requirement in India for rural and urban areas.
question_answer142) (a) Who are considered poor? (b) Explain and identify the economic and social groups which are most vulnerable to poverty.
question_answer143) (a) Mention social and economic groups who are more vulnerable to poverty in India. (b) Explain any two reasons of poverty in such communities. Or Describe about social and economic groups which are more vulnerable to poverty in India.
question_answer144) Describe any two important poverty alleviation programmes currently being implemented in India. Or Explain any five anti-poverty measures taken up by the government of India.
question_answer145) 'In India, a majority of the population lives below the poverty line. Government is taking pains to lessen poverty.' Read the above statements and answer the following questions (a) If you are the member of a commission appointed to suggest the areas/issues concerned with poverty, which issues would you suggest regarding poverty alleviation? (b) What values/lesson have you learnt from the given statements?
question_answer146) Describe current government strategy of poverty alleviation.
question_answer147) (a) 'India has been witnessing high population growth since years'. Keeping this in mind, your school Principal has constituted a team of students to spread awareness in the slum areas of the town about the ill effects of high population growth. You are the team leader. Which issues will you suggest to your fellow members to focus on while on the awareness drive? (b) What values/lesson have you learnt from the above question?
question_answer148) Study the given cases of poverty and discuss the following issues related to poverty Urban Case Thirty-three year old Ram Saran works as a daily-wage labourer in a wheat flour mill near Ranchi in Jharkhand. He manages to earn around Rs. 1,500 a month when he finds employment, which is not often. The money is not enough to sustain his family of six that includes his wife and four children aged between 12 years to six months. He has to send money home to his old parents who live in a village near Ramgarh. His father a landless labourer, depends on Ram Saran and his brother who lives in Hazaribagh, for sustenance. Ram Saran lives in a one-room rented house in a crowded basti in the outskirts of the city. It's a temporary shack built of bricks and clay tiles. His wife Santa Devi, works as a part time maid in a few houses and manages to earn another ? 800. They manage a meagre meal of dal and rice twice a day, but there's never enough for all of them. His elder son works as a helper in a tea shop to supplement the family income and earns another Rs. 300, while his 10-year-old daughter takes care of the younger siblings. None of the children go to school. They have only two pairs of hand-me-down clothes each. New ones are bought only when the old clothes become un wearable. Shoes are a luxury. The younger kids are undernourished. They have no access to healthcare when they fall ill. Rural Case Lakha Singh belongs to a small village near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. His family doesn't own any land, so they do odd jobs for the big farmers. Work is erratic and so is income. At times they get paid ^ 50 for a hard day's work. But often it's in kind like a few kilograms of wheat or dal or even vegetables for toiling in the farm through the day. The family of eight cannot always manage two square meals a day. Lakha lives in a kuchha hut on the outskirts of the village. The women of the family spend the day chopping fodder and collecting firewood in the fields. His father a TB patient, passed away two years ago due to lack of medication. His mother now suffers from the same disease and life is slowly ebbing away. Although, the village has a primary school, Lakha never went there. He had to start earning when he was 10 years old. New clothes happen once in a few years. Even soap and oil are a luxury for the family. (a) Landlessness (b) Unemployment (c) Size of families (d) Illiteracy (e) Poor health/malnutrition (f) Child labour (g) Helplessness
question_answer149) Why do different countries use different poverty lines?
question_answer150) What do you think would be the 'minimum necessary level' in your locality?
question_answer151) Study the table given below and answer the following questions Poverty ratio (&) Number of poor (in millions) Year Rural Urban Cobined Rural Urban Combined 1973.74 56.4 49.0 54.9 261 60 321 1993.94 37.3 32.4 36.0 244 76 320 1999.00 27.1 23.6 26.1 193 67 260 (a) Even if poverty ratio declined between 1973-74 and 1993-94 why did the number of poor remain at about 320 million? (b) Are the dynamics of poverty reduction the same in rural and urban areas?
question_answer152) Observe some of the poor families around you and try to find the following (a) Which social and economic group do they belong to? (b) Who are the earning member in the family? (c) What is the condition of the old people in the family? (d) Are all the children (boys and girls/attending school)?
question_answer153) Study the following graph and answer the questions that follow (a) Identify the areas of the world, where poverty ratio have declined. (b) Identify the area of the globe which has the largest concentration of the poor.
question_answer154) Do you think the present methodology of poverty estimation is appropriate?
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