MCQs for Fundamentals of Rural Development

 MCQs for Fundamentals of Rural Development

Q.1) What is PPP?

a) Purchasing Power Parity

b) Purchasing People Parity

c) Purchasing Product Parity

d) Purchasing Price Parity

Q.2) Urban areas are also known as

a) Metropolitians

b) Village

c) Hamlet

d) Town

Q.3) Rural areas are also known as

a) Countryside

b) City

c) Town

d) Urban

Q.4) Rural Development implies raising the ________status of the rural population

a) Social

b) Economical

c) Political

d) Technological

Q.5) Mahatma Gandhi had viewed development of rural areas through eradication of ________

A) Poverty

b) Wealth

c) Infrastructure

d) Education

Q.6) Rabindranath Tagore’s view towards development of people in villages was centred around creation of  ____

a) Happiness

b) Wealth

c) Poverty

d) Social status

Q.7) _____approach presumes that the growth centers have a geographical spread effect that the regions which are deficient in terms of infrastructure or resources needs to be adequately developed.

a) Participatory

b) Target

c) Sectoral

d) Area Development

Q.8) NGO refers to ______-

a) Non Geographical Organisation

b) Non Global Organisation

c) Non Government Organisation

d) Non Glacier Organisation

Q.9) SHG refers to_____

a) Self Happiness Groups

b) Self Healthy Groups

c) Self Hunger Groups

d) Self Help Groups

Q.10) _______ is a development course designed to create conditions of economic and social progress for the whole community with its active participation.

a) Community Development

b) PRA

c) Target Approach

d) Enterprise Planning

Q.11) ________ is the principal organ at the district level to manage and oversee the implementation of different anti poverty programmes of the Ministry and Rural Development

a) PRA

b) DRDA

c) Planning Commission

d) Panchyat

Q.12) _______ refers to an organization formed by a group of private persons, registered under the society registrations act of 1860 for performing functions or allocated on behalf of government.

a) DRDA

b) PRI

c) NGO

d) NITI Aayog

Q13) NGO’S with charitable orientation focuses on 

a) Needs of the poor

b) Provision of healthcare

c) Empowering poor people

d) Local Participation

Q.14) NGO’s with service orientation focuses on

a) Needs of the poor

b) Provision of healthcare

c) Empowering poor people

d) Local Participation

Q.15) OXFAM and CARE are ____NGO’s

a) National

b) Regional

c) International

d) Domestic

Q. 16) _______ is defined as a self governed, peer controlled information group of people with similar economic background and having a desire to collectively perform common purpose.

a) SHG

b) NGO

c) PRI

d) DRDA

Q.17) The _______ is the economic agent who unites all means of production and the labour force for which he pays as well as profits belonging to himself.

a) Entreprenuer

b) NGO

c) Employee

d) Employer

Q.18) ________ is a self motivated business manager who performs various agri based activities I order to accomplish a certain goal

a) Agriprenuer

b) NGO

c) Employee

d) Manager

Q.19) The term agribusiness is coined by ______

a) Michael Peter

b) John Davis

c) Ewell Roy

d) Steve Jobs

Q.20) ______ is a process which starts with a decision to produce a saleable farm commodity and involves all aspects of a market structure or system.

a) Agricultural Marketing

b) Entrepreneurship

c) Promotion

d) Advertising

Q.21) Farmers are assured of _______ at which the government will be ready to purchase agricultural products.

a) Maximum Price

b) Minimum support price

c) Tensile Price

d) Insurance

Q.22) _____ seeks to network the existing APMC and other market yards to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.

a) PRI

b) CDD

c) NAM

d) DAM

Q.23) Apni Mandi is _______ marketing channel

a) Alternative

b) Basic

c) Complex

d) Intermediate

Q.24) ______ is the supply of loans, savings, Insurance and other basic financial services to the poor.

a) Microfinance

b) Corporate Finance

c) Retail Finance

d) Macro Finance

Q.25) NABARD refers to_____

a) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

b) National Bank for Agreement and Rural Development

c) National Bank for Association and Rural Development

d) National bank for Allied and Rural Development