Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes — UPSC Prelims Previous Year Questions
61 questions from UPSC CSE Prelims GS Paper 1 on Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes (Indian Economy). Spanning from 1995 to 2024. Practice with show/hide answers and detailed explanations.
What UPSC Asks About Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes
Based on 61 questions across 23 years, UPSC has consistently tested aspirants' understanding of Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes within the broader Indian Economy syllabus. The questions range from factual recall to application-based analysis.
Recent trends show UPSC moving towards statement-based questions that combine multiple aspects of Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes. Aspirants should focus on understanding concepts rather than memorizing isolated facts.
Q: With reference to the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana, consider the following statements :
1. The entry age group for enrolment in the scheme is 21 to 40 years.
2. Age specific contribution shall be made by the beneficiary.
3. Each subscriber under the scheme shall receive a minimum pension of ₹ 3,000 per month after attaining the age of 60 years.
4. Family pension is applicable to the spouse and unmarried daughters.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements in relation to Janani Suraksha Yojana :
1. It is a safe motherhood intervention of the State Health Departments.
2. Its objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality among poor pregnant women.
3. It aims to promote institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
4. Its objective includes providing public health facilities to sick infants up to one year of age.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements in the context of interventions being undertaken under Anaemia Mukt Bharat Strategy :
1. It provides prophylactic calcium supplementation for pre-school children, adolescents and pregnant women.
2. It runs a campaign for delayed cord clamping at the time of child-birth.
3. It provides for periodic deworming to children and adolescents.
4. It addresses non-nutritional causes of anaemia in endemic pockets with special focus on malaria, hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements :
Statement-I :
India's public sector health care system largely focuses on curative care with limited preventive, promotive and rehabilitative care.
Statement-II :
Under India's decentralized approach to health care delivery, the States are primarily responsible for organizing health services.
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
(a)Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I
(b)Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I
(c)Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect
(d)Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct
Q: With reference to casual workers employed in India, consider the following statements:
1. All casual workers are entitled for Employees Provident Fund coverage.
2. All casual workers are entitled for regular working hours and overtime payment.
3. The government can by a notification specify that an establishment or industry shall pay wages only through its bank account.
Which of the above statements are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements: As per the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central (Amendment) Rules, 2018
1. If rules for fixed-term employment are implemented, it becomes easier for the firms/companies to lay off workers.
2. No notice of termination of employment shall be necessary in the case of temporary workman.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: With reference to the provisions made under the National Food Security Act, 2013, consider the following statements:
1. The families coming under the category of 'below poverty line (BPL)' only are eligible to receive subsidised food grains.
2. The eldest woman in a household, of age 18 years or above, shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issuance of a ration card.
3. Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to a 'take-home ration' of 1600 calories per day during pregnancy and for six months thereafter.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements: Human capital formation as a concept is better explained in terms of a process which enables
1. Individuals of a country to accumulate more capital.
2. Increasing the knowledge, skill levels and capacities of the people of the country.
3. Accumulation of tangible wealth.
4. Accumulation of intangible wealth.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: With reference to 'National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF)', which of the statements given below is/are correct?
1. Under NSQF, a learner can acquire the certification for competency only through formal learning.
2. An outcome expected from the implementation of NSQF is the mobility between vocational and general education.
Q: Consider the following in respect of ‘National Career Service’:
1. National Career Service is an initiative of the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India.
2. National Career Service has been launched in a Mission Mode to improve the employment opportunities to uneducated youth of the country.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Q: Regarding ‘Atal Pension Yojana’, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. It is a minimum guaranteed pension scheme mainly targeted at unorganized sector workers.
2. Only one member of a family can join the scheme.
3. Same amount of pension is guaranteed for the spouse for life after subscriber’s death.
Select the correct answer
using the code given below:
Q: How does the National Rural Livelihood Mission seek to improve livelihood options of rural poor?
1. By setting up a large number of new manufacturing industries and agribusiness centres in rural areas
2. By strengthening ‘self-help groups’ and providing skill development
3. By supplying seeds, fertilizers, diesel pump-sets and micro-irrigation equipment free of cost to farmers
Q: The Multi-dimensional Poverty Index developed by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support covers which of the following?
1. Deprivation of education, health, assets and services at household level
2. Purchasing power parity at national level
3. Extent of budget deficit and GDP growth rate at national level
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
Q: Consider the following specific stages of demographic transition associated with economic development:
1. Low birthrate with low death rate
2. High birthrate with high death rate
3. High birthrate with low death rate
Select the correct order of the above stages using the codes given below:
Q: The endeavour of 'Janani Suraksha Yojana' Programme is
1. To promote institutional deliveries
2. To provide monetary assistance to the mother to meet the cost of delivery
3. To provide for wage loss due to pregnancy and confinement
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following:
1. Hotels and restaurants
2. Motor transport undertakings
3. Newspaper establishments
4. Private medical institutions The employees
of
which of the above can have the 'Social Security' coverage under Employees' State Insurance Scheme?
Q: With reference to "Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana", consider the following statements:
1. The member insured under the scheme must be the head of the family or an earning member of the family in a rural landless household.
2. The member insured must be in the age group of 30 to 65 years.
3. There is a provision for free scholarship for up to two children of the insured who are studying between classes 9 and 12.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: With reference to the schemes launched by the Union Government, consider the following statements:
1. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.
2. Ministry of Textiles launched the Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima Yojana.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements :
1. Infant mortality rate takes into account the death of infants within a month after birth.
2. Infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths in a particular year, per 100 live births during that year.
Which of the above statements is/are correct ?
Q: As per India's National Population Policy, 2000,
by which one of the following years is it our long-term objective to achieve population stabilization?
Q: Consider the following statements with reference to Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS):
1. All persons of 60 years or above belonging to the households below poverty line in rural areas are eligible.
2. The Central Assistance under this Scheme is at the rate of Rs 300 per month per beneficiary. Under the Scheme, States have been urged to give matching amounts.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements in respect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 :
1. Under the provisions of the Act, 100 days of employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work has become a fundamental right.
2. Under the provisions of the Act, women are to get priority to the extent that one-half of persons who are given employment are women who have asked for work.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Consider the following statements:
1. India is the second country in the world to adopt a National Family Planning Programme.
2. The National Population Policy of India, 2000 seeks to achieve replacement level of fertility by 2010 with a population of 111 crores.
3. Kerala is the first State in India to achieve replacement level of fertility.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q: Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
(a)Under the Targeted Public Distribution System, the families Below Poverty Line are provided 50 kg of food grains per month per family at subsidized price.
(b)Under Annapurna Scheme, indigent senior citizens of 65 years of age or above eligible for National Old Age Pension but not getting pension can get 10 kg of food grains per person per month at BPL rates.
(c)Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has a scheme in which indigent people living in welfare institutions like orphanages are given 15 kg of food grains per person per month at BPL rates.
(d)Ministry of Human Resource Development gives financial support to Mid-Day Meal Scheme for the benefit of class I to V students in Government or Government-aided Schools.
Q: Assertion (A): The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was launched in 1986 to improve the quality of life of rural people in India.
Reason (R): Rural sanitation is a subject in the Concurrent List in the Constitution of India.
(a)Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b)Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
Q: As per the Human Development Index given by UNDP,
which one of the following sequences of South Asian countries is correct, in the order of higher to lower development?
Q: Consider the following statements: The objectives of the National Renewal Fund set up in February 1992 were
1. To give training and counselling for workers affected by retrenchment or VRS.
2. Redeployment of workers
Which of these statements is/are correct?
Q: Which reference to the government’s welfare schemes, consider the following statements:
1. Under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana, the food grains are available to the poorest of the poor families at Rs 2 per kg for wheat and Rs 3 per kg for rice.
2. Under the National Old Age Pension Scheme, the old and destitute are provided Rs 75 per month as Central pension, in addition to the amount provided by most State Governments.
3. Government of India has allocated 25 kg food grains per Below Poverty Line family per month, at less than half the economic cost.
Which of these statements are correct?
Q: Consider the following schemes launched by the Union Government:
I. Antyodaya Anna
II. Gram Sadak Yojana
III. Sarvapriya
IV. Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana.
Which of these were announced in the year 2000?
Q: The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana which came into operation from 1 December 1997 aims to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed poor but does not include
Q: Among
which one of the following sets of social/religious groups is the extent of poverty the highest, as per Government statistics for the nineties?
(a)Muslims in Kerala, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh
(b)Tribals in Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra
(c)Scheduled Castes in Punjab, Western Uttar Pradesh, northern Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu
Q: The number of economically active women (excluding students and those doing domestic duties in their homes) as a percentage of all women of working age (generally those aged 15-64 years) was the highest in 1996 in
Q: Match List I with List II
and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
List I
I. Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
II. Mahila Samriddhi Yojana
III. Indira Mahila Yojana
IV. Mahila Samakhya Programme
List II
A) Empowerment of women
B) Education for Women’s Equality
C) Promotion of savings among rural women
D) Meeting credit needs of the poor women
Codes:
How many UPSC Prelims questions have been asked from Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes?▼
UPSC has asked 61 questions on Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes in GS Paper 1 Prelims between 1995 and 2024. This sub-topic falls under Indian Economy.
In which years has UPSC asked about Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes?▼
Questions on Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes have appeared in UPSC Prelims in the following years: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995. The topic has appeared in 23 out of 31 years.
What is the difficulty level of Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes questions in UPSC Prelims?▼
Among 61 questions on Human Development, Poverty & Employment Schemes: 16 are easy, 44 are moderate, and 1 are difficult. Most questions test conceptual understanding of the topic.
