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The government is trying to implement the equality that is guaranteed in the Constitution through laws and several schemes. The government has set up several schemes to improve the lives of communities and indiaviduals who have been treated unequally for several centuries. One such programme is the mid-day meal programme. This programme was introduced in all government elementary schools to provide children with cooked and nutritious food. This programme has many positive effects. Some of them are:

1. More poor children have begun enrolling and regularly attending schools, 

2. This programme has also helped to reduce caste prejudices because both lower and upper caste children in schools eat this meal together. 

3. A mid-day meal is prepared by the members of the women selfhelp groups that too from the deprived classes. Thus Dalit women have got employment with this programme.

(A) Women SHGs

(B) Tamilnadu

(B) Tamilnadu

(B) Tamil Nadu

(C) Supreme Court

There is a lot of difference between being punished for a mistake and being discriminated against. Punishment is given to those who commit a mistake or a wrong without showing any discrimination. More than that punishment is corporal but discrimination has an effect on one’s psyche, dignity, and character. But the discrimination is shown based on one’s birth and social status. Punishing those who commit wrongs defends the rights of other people. But discrimination denies the people their freedom, equality, respect, and dignity of the victims. 

The child Ambedkar did no wrong, so he was not supposed to be punished. But he was discriminated against because of his caste and thus he was denied social equality, self-respect, and dignity.

(D) All the above

(D) All the above

(D) all the above

Answer is (C) Pune

A group of people, who follow some common rules and customs, worship the common deities, follow the same profession or work, and are bonded together said to be one caste Every caste has its own identity its own rules and customs, its own deities. Each case wants to keep its own identity by keeping itself into an undivided element. They don’t want to mix with others. They feel it as contamination of caste if their young ones marry other caste people.

If people go on negating inter-caste marriages the caste system keeps on strengthening itself. As it goes on strengthening all the social evils that remain alive, Thus it will help to preserve caste inequality

(A) Savitri Bai Phule

(A) Maharashtra

Answer is (B) Kerala

(C) Narayana Guru

She was a social reformer along with her husband Jyothi Rao Phule, who played an important role in women’s rights in India during British, rule. She pioneered the campaign for women’s education, staging the first school for girls at Pune in 1848. Savitribai was the first female teacher of the first women’s school in India. In 1852, she opened a school for untouchable girls. Even though she faced many problems, she continued her teaching for the welfare of Dalits.

(C) Both 1 & 2