CBSE Class 11 Economics Poverty Assignment

MCQ Questions for NCERT Class 11 Economics Poverty

Question: Which organisation collects data on poverty in India
(a) NSSO
(b) CSO
(c) NITI Aayog
(d) None of these 

Answer : A

Question: Those who regularly move in and out of poverty like small farmers or seasonal workers are called:
(a) Chronic poor
(b) Occasionally poor
(c)Churning poor
(d) None of these 

Answer : C

Question: MPCE stands for
(a) Minimum per capita expenditure
(b) Maximum Per Capita Expenditure
(c) Money Per Capita Expenditure
(d) Monthly Per Capita Expenditure 

Answer : D

Question: The planning Commission has defined the poverty line on the basis of recommended nutritional requirement of ------------------------- calories per person per day for rural areas .
(a) 2100
(B) 2200
(c) 2400
(d) 2000 

Answer : C

Question: Who introduced the concept of “Jail cost of Living “
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) Manmohan Singh 

Answer : B

Question: In pre-independent India , he was the first to discuss the concept of poverty line
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) A.K.Sen
(d) Vinoba Bhave 

Answer : A

Question: The minimum calorie consumption per person in urban area is ----- in defining poverty line
(a) 2400
(b) 2250
(c) 2200
(d) 2100 

Answer : D

Question:---------- refers to poverty of people , in comparison to other people , regions or nations
(a) Absolute poverty
(b) Relative poverty
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) Neither (a) nor(b) 

Answer : B

Question: According to planning commission , the minimum Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE ) in 20211-12 WAS fixed as Rs. ______ per person in rural area and Rs. _______ in urban area.
(a) RS 800 per person in rural area & RS 900 in urban area
(b) RS 816 per person in rural area & RS 1000 in urban area
(c) RS 1000PER person in rural area & RS 1200 in urban area
(d) RS 810 per person in rural area & RS 950 in urban area 

Answer : B

Question: The programme initiated by the government to improve food and nutritional level of poor was
(a) Public distribution system
(b) Integrated child development scheme
(c) Midday Meal Scheme
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question: Approach followed by the government to reduce poverty in India 
(a) Growth oriented
(b) Specific poverty alleviation programmes
(c) meeting the minimum needs of the poor
(d) all of these 

Answer : D

Question: Under MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ACT-2005 ) work is offered for a minimum period of _____ days.
(a) 150 days
(b) 100 days
(c) 200 days
(d) 365 

Answer : B

Question: In April 2015, which of these schemes was launched by the prime minister Narendra Modi.
(a) Make In India
(b) Clean India Mission
(c) MGNREGA
(d) Micro units development refinance agency bank (MUDRA BANK) 

Answer : D

Question: In which year ,”National Food for Work Programme” was launched ?
(a) 2008
(b) 2005
(c)2004
(d) 2010 

Answer : C

Question: The earlier ‘ Food for work programme ‘ has now been converted into
(a) Minimum needs programme
(b) Integrated rural development Programme
(c )Mahatma Gandhi National rural employment programme
(d) PMRY 

Answer : C

Fill in The Blanks

Question. _____________ is initiated by the central government, under which elderly people who do not have anyone to take care of them are given pension to sustain themselves. Poor women who are destitute and widows are also covered under this scheme.
1. From 2014, a `scheme called________________ people in India are encouraged to open bank accounts.( Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana)
Answer : Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana, Valmiki Ambedkar
Awas Yojana

Question. __________ is a group of people who regularly move in and out of poverty (example: small farmers and seasonal workers).
Answer : churning poor

Question. Under which one of the following self-employment Programmes. One can get financial assistance in the form of bank loans to set up small industries?
(a) Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP)
(b) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY)
(c) Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
(d) All of the above
Answer : A

Question. Initially, the self- Help droups (SHGs) are encouraged to save money and land among themselves as small loans. Later, through banks, the government provides partial financial assistance to SHGs which then decide whom the loan is to be given to for self-employment activities. ___________ is one such programme.
Answer : Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)

Question. The minimum calorie intake in rural area is 2100 calories. (True /False)
Answer : False

Question. Number of people living below poverty line. (Absolute poverty/Relative poverty)
Answer : Absolute poverty

Question. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) has now been restructured as ___________. A similar programme called _________ has also been in place for urban poor.
Answer : Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)

Question. The churning poor, who regularly move in and out of poverty, and the occasionally poor who are rich most of the time but may sometimes have a patch of bad luck, are called the__________.
Answer : transient poor

Question. The government uses ___________ as proxy for income of households to identify the poor.
Answer : Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE)

Question. Casual workers are grouped as the chronic poor. (True /False)
Answer : True

Case Study Questions Poverty Class 11 Economics

Read the following case study carefully and answer the questions 16 to 18 on the basis of the same :-
The reduction in poverty  hasn’t been impressive has also been pointed out by an assessment released in January 2020 by government think-tank NITI Aayog Going by the states ‘ progress on poverty reduction ,India is far behind the ‘zero poverty by 2030” States rather slipped in their efforts to reduce poverty in 2019 in comparison in 2018. The lapsing back of people climbing above the poverty line is the most important reason of chronic poverty. Poverty line is a cut -off point on the line of distribution, which usually divides the population of the country as poor and non -poor.

Question: THE above paragraph relates to.
(a) Chronic poor
(b) churning poor
(c) occasionally poor
(d) transient poor 

Ans: A

Question: POVERTY line separates (Choose the correct option)
(a) Poor and non -poor
(b) Rich and non-rich
(c) Poor and weak
(d) None of the above 

Ans: A

Question: The ratio measures the number of poor below poverty line is known as
(a) Head count ratio
(b) Population count
ratio (c)Poverty count ratio
(d) None of these 

Ans: A

Question: READ the following statements-Assertion(A) and Reason (R) . Choose one of the correct alternatives given below :
Assertion (A) : Poverty is closely related to unemployment Reason (R) : Unemployment compels indebtedness and reinforces poverty. Alternatives:
(a)Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason ® is false
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is True 

Ans: A

Question: Which amongst the following are the causes of poverty in India ?
(a)Unemployment
(b) Inequalities of Income
(c) Low levels of economic development
(d)All of these 

Ans: D

The most heated and debated topic not only in India but in entire world is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. Poverty is a socio-economic incident and it is closely related with disparity. Due to poverty, it becomes close to impossible to fulfill even the bare requirements of life viz; food, clothing,shelter, education and health in deprive section of society. From 1993-94 to 2011-12, national poverty estimates is reduced from 50.1% to 25.7% in rural areas on the contrary in urban areas, its rate of reduction is from 311.8% to 13.7% . In India, poverty rate is declined by 17.89% from 1993 to 2004 and further declined by 41.13% in a period of 2004-2011 (as per Tendulkar Committee estimates). As per SDG India Index Baseline report 2018, 21.92% of India’s population was below poverty line in 2011. With an above backdrop, we focuses on the poverty alleviation programmes in India with special regard to Sustainable Development Goals.

Question: The government’s approach to poverty reduction was of ___________ (three/Four) dimensions. 

Ans: Three

Question: When the number of poor is estimated as the proportion of people below the poverty line, it is known as ______________ ( Worker Population Ratio/ Head Count Ratio).

 Ans : Head Count Ratio 

Question: ‘Jail Cost of Living’was a criteria formulated by __________ (Amartya Sen / Dadabhai Naoroji) to determine the minimum daily food requirements of an adult in India. 

Ans: Dadabhai Naoroji  

Question: In August 2005, the Parliament of India passed the _________ (MNGREGA / Competition ) Act to provide guaranteed wage employment to every household whose adult volunteer is to do unskilled manual for a minimum of 100 days in a year. 

Ans: MNGREGA  

Key points :

* Poverty is the inability to fulfill the minimum requirement of life. Like food, clothing, housing education and health facilities etc. 

* Relative poverty refers to poverty of people in comparison to other people, region or nations.

* Absolute poverty refers to total number of people living below the poverty line.

* Poverty line refers to that line which express per capita average monthly expenditure incurred by the people to satisfy their munimum needs.

* Those people who are always poor and those who are usually poor called chronic poor.

* All those people who are churring poor moving in and out of poverty like seasonal workers and occasionally poor called transient poor.

* Those people who live above the poverty line. They are called non poor.

* The ratio between urban and rural area of the population live below the poverty line has declined since 2000. Still 27% of population is poor and 70% of poor population live in Utar pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bangal and Orisa. 

* Causes of Poverty :-

1. Rapid increase in population

2. Low level of National product.

3. Rise in price

4. Unemployment

5. Low rate of growth

6. Capital deficiency.

Measures adopted by the Government to remove poverty.
1. Food for work programme.
2. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.
3. Pradhan Mantri Gramodoya Yojana.
4. Sompoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana.
5. Swarn Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana.
6. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

1 MAKR QUESTION

Question. Define poverty.
Answer: Poverty is the inability of fulfilling the minimum requirement like food, clothing, housing education and health facilities etc.

Question. How does absolute poverty measured in India?
Answer: Absolute poverty is measured in India with the help of poverty line.

Question. What is meant by relative poverty?
Answer: Relative poverty refers to poverty of people in comparision to other people, region or nations.

Question. Who are called chronic poor?
Answer: Those people who are always poor and those who are usually poor called chronic poor.

Question. State the category of those people who are churning poor moving in and out of poverty.
Answer: Transit poor. 

Question. How does rise in price is responsable for poverty?
Answer: Rise in price is a cause of decrease in real income or purchasing power so goods and services become costlier and poor people become unable to saisfy their minimum requirement.

Question. Define poverty line?
Answer: Poverty line refers to that line which exepress per capita average monthly expenditure incurred by the people to saisfy their minumum need.