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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                  SESSION 2020-21
                                                       CLASS-IX

                            ECONOMICS- CHAPTER-3 POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE

                                                 HOME ASSIGNMENT
                                                     SUB TOPIC-7
                                   Anti-poverty measures and challenges ahead


                                                Objective Assessment



           1    ___________program aims at assisting the poor families above the poverty line by
               organising them into self help groups through bank credit and government subsidy.
                   (a) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
                   (b) Pradhan Mantri GramodayaYozana
                   (c) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
                   (d) Antyodaya Anna Yojana


               In the question given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason
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               (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option :
               Assertion (A) : Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 is against
               sustainable development.
               Reason (R) : It only focuses on providing employment and people are often employed in
               polluting manufacturing units.
               (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
               (b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
               (c) A is correct, but R is wrong.
               (d) A is wrong, but R is correct.



                _______helps educated unemployed youth to set up small business and industries in rural
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               areas and small towns.

                       (a) Prime Minister Rozgar Yozana
                       (b) Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
                       (c) Rural Employment Generation Programme
                       (d) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act


               The current anti-poverty programme consists of two planks.
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               (a) Socio-economic reasons  and  public distribution system.
               (b) Promotion of economic growth and targeted anti-poverty programme.
               (c) Anti-poverty programme and public distribution system.
               (d) Buffer stock and public distribution system.



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