Indian Economy GK Questions with Answers – Page 21

The commission headed by C. Rangarajan reviewed the Indian statistical system and recommended a permanent and autonomous body to lay down standards, so the National Statistical Commission was constituted in 2005 as an advisory body with a part-time chairperson, members and the chief executive officer as its secretary; the chief…

The survey was launched in 2017 in place of the earlier five-yearly employment and unemployment rounds of the National Sample Survey, and it reports the labour force participation rate, the worker population ratio and the unemployment rate on the three activity statuses, namely usual status, current weekly status and current…

The census of 1881, taken under the Viceroy Lord Ripon and directed by W. C. Plowden, was the first to be carried out on one reference date across the whole country, and the unbroken decennial series of Indian censuses is counted from it.

The census is taken by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, under the authority of the Census Act of 1948; the same office maintains the civil registration system of births and deaths.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute at Kolkata in 1931, set up the National Sample Survey in 1950, gave statistics the distance measure named after him, pioneered large scale sample surveys and pilot surveys, and prepared the plan frame of the Second Five Year Plan, which placed heavy…

National Statistics Day has been observed on 29 June every year since 2007 to mark the birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and to create awareness about the use of statistics in planning and policy; a theme is announced each year by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

In 2019 the government merged the two bodies into a single National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, so that the preparation of the national accounts and the conduct of the large sample surveys would sit in one office.

Mission Shakti is one of the three umbrella schemes of that ministry from 2021, along with Mission Vatsalya for child protection and Mission Poshan 2.0 for nutrition, and it has two parts, Sambal for safety and security and Samarthya for empowerment.

It is the round the clock emergency number for a child in need of care and protection, and it connects the caller to the child protection machinery under Mission Vatsalya and the Juvenile Justice Act.

The amendment of 2017 raised paid maternity leave for women in establishments covered by the Maternity Benefit Act from twelve weeks to twenty-six weeks for the first two children, and it also provided for a creche facility in establishments above a prescribed size and for work from home where the…

One Stop Centres, launched in 2015 and financed from the Nirbhaya Fund, are called Sakhi centres and bring medical aid, police assistance, legal aid, psychological counselling and temporary shelter for a woman affected by violence under one roof.

POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched there on 8 March 2018, International Women Day, with the aim of reducing stunting, undernutrition, anaemia among women and children and low birth weight through convergence of departments, use of technology and community mobilisation.

The project was launched in March 2022 by the Minister of Women and Child Development, who then held that office, in collaboration with the national mental health institute at Bengaluru, to train the staff of One Stop Centres in handling the mental health needs of women affected by violence.

The scheme, which began on 1 January 2017 and is run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, pays this amount in instalments on conditions such as early registration of pregnancy and immunisation of the child, as partial compensation for the wages a woman loses during pregnancy and after…

The scheme was launched on 2 October 1975 and is the oldest and largest programme for children in India, delivering supplementary nutrition, pre-school education, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services and health education for mothers through anganwadi centres.

Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, launched on 22 January 2015, a parent or legal guardian may open the account for a girl at any time before she completes the age of ten years, for a maximum of two girls in one family, and the account matures twenty-one years after it…

The scheme was launched on 22 January 2015 from Panipat because Haryana had one of the lowest child sex ratios in the country in the Census of 2011, and the launch was meant to carry the message from the worst affected region.

PMGSY is a centrally sponsored rural development scheme, launched as part of the poverty reduction strategy, to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana does not rely only on government agencies; most of its training is run by private and non-government partners.

Besides population, area and income distance, the Fifteenth Finance Commission used demographic performance, forest and ecology, and tax and fiscal efforts.