CUET 2026 Economics Current challenges facing Indian Economy – Poverty MCQ Question Answers

1. Poverty line divides the Population into Poor and ______

2. In Which two years expert Groups Were Constituted for the purpose to come up with mechanism to find number of poor in India

3. Nearly _____crore households get employment opportunities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)

4. MPCE Full form in The Context of Poverty Chapter

5. Poverty Index Developed by Nobel laureate Amartya sen is called as

6. From 2014, a scheme called Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana Was available in which people in India are encouraged to _____

7. There are many factors, other than income and assets, which are associated with poverty; the accessibility to _____

8. In August 2005, the Parliament passed a new Act to provide guaranteed wage employment to every rural household whose adult volunteer is to do unskilled manual work for a minimum of 100 days in a year. This is known as

9. In pre-independent India, _______was the first to discuss the concept of a Poverty Line

10. _____have also failed to address a majority of vulnerable people who are living on or just above the poverty line

11. Under Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, each bank account holder is also entitled to______ accidental insurance cover

12. ______ Organization or institution Collect statistics on Poverty in India

13. When the number of poor is estimated as the proportion of people below the poverty line, it is known as

14. British policies involved sharply raising rural taxes that enabled merchants and moneylenders to become

15. The official data on poverty is now made available to the public by the NITI Aayog. What is NITI Aayog now Popularly Known as?

16. Self-Employment Programmes Implemented are / is

17. Mr Anand, who is rich most of the time but may sometimes have a patch of bad luck. And then he gets poor. What categorical group he can be classified to

18. Who Founded the concept of Jail Cost of Living?

19. National Social Assistance Programme is one such programme initiated by the central government which Helped _________

20. In 2011-12, the poverty line was defined for rural areas as consumption worth _____ per person a month and for urban areas it was _____