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1.

How do you term people employed in excess over and above the requirements? (a) Unemployment (b) Underemployment or Disguised Unemployment (c) Full employment (d) Self – employment

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(b) Underemployment or Disguised Unemployment

2.

What percentage of the total population live in rural area, as per 2011 censes? (a) 40 (b) 50 (c) 60 (d) 70

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Correct Answer is: (c) 60

3.

How do you term the employment occurring only on a particular season? (a) Open (b) Disguised(c) Seasonal (d) Rural

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Correct Answer is: (c) Seasonal

4.

Identify the advantages of rural roads. (a) Rural marketing (b) Rural employment (c) Rural development (d) All the above

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(d) All the above

5.

What is the other name for concealed unemployment? (a) Open (b) Disguised (c) Seasonal (d) Rural

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Correct Answer is: (b) Disguised

6.

Rural Poverty – Define?

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1. Rural poverty refers to the existence of poverty in rural areas. 

2. Poverty in India has been defined as the situation in which an individual fails to earn sufficient income to buy the basic minimum of subsistence. 

3. On the basis of recommended nutritional intake, persons consuming less than 2400 calories per day in rural areas are treated as they are under rural poverty.

7.

What do you mean by Rural Development?

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1. Rural Development is defined as an overall improvement in the economies and social well being of villagers and the institutional and physical environments in which they live. 

2. According to the World Bank “Rural Development is a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of a specific group of people – rural poor. 

3. Rural Development is a process of improving the rural areas, rural people and rural living.

8.

“An Indian farmer is bom in debt, lives in debt, dies in debt and bequeaths debt”-who said this?(a) Adam Smith (b) Gandhi(c) Amartya Sen (d) Sir Malcolm Darling

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(d) Sir Malcolm Darling