Indian Economy Mixed Quiz: Set 65

Mission Indradhanush is the Health Ministry's drive to vaccinate every child and pregnant woman left out of routine immunisation. The mission was launched on 25 December 2014 to raise full immunisation coverage among children under two years and pregnant women.

Make in India was launched in 2014, not 2018, and fostering innovation is one of its stated objectives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Make in India on 25 September 2014 to turn India into a global hub for design and manufacturing.

Walking through the villages of the Telangana region in 1951 he asked landowners to treat the landless as their own kin and to gift a share of their land, and the first such gift at Pochampally began the Bhoodan or land gift movement, later extended as Gramdan, the gift of…

Working with Alexander Read in the ceded districts and later as Governor of Madras, Munro settled the revenue directly with each cultivator, the ryot, who was recognised as the owner of his field so long as he paid, with the demand revised every twenty or thirty years.

Because resources are scarce and wants are unlimited, every economy must answer three questions, and these are called its central problems: what goods and in what quantity to produce, how to produce them, that is by which technique and combination of labour and capital, and for whom to produce, that…

The Scottish economist published the Wealth of Nations in 1776 and is called the father of economics; he argued that if each person pursues his own interest in a free market, an invisible hand guides the outcome to the good of society, which became the classic defence of capitalism and…

Convergence of different schemes and the use of ICT for real-time monitoring are both core strategies of POSHAN Abhiyaan. POSHAN Abhiyaan (Prime Minister's Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment), also called the National Nutrition Mission, was launched on 8 March 2018 at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan.

As a member of the World Trade Organization, India had to protect geographical indications under the TRIPS Agreement, and the 1999 Act was passed for that purpose.

Land, rights in and over land, land tenures, the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rent are entries of List II of the Seventh Schedule, which is why zamindari abolition, tenancy law and ceilings were enacted state by state and why their record varies so much.

Necessities and luxuries are matched correctly, but an inferior good has a negative income elasticity, not a positive one. Income elasticity of demand is the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in income.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 followed the Congress session at Avadi that called for a socialistic pattern of society, and it gave the public sector the commanding role.

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.

These states made consolidation compulsory and completed it over most of their cultivated area, exchanging a farmer's scattered strips for one compact block, which made tube wells, tractors and field channels worth installing and so fed into the green revolution.

The High Denomination Bank Notes (Demonetisation) Act was passed in January 1978, when the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai was in office, and it withdrew the notes of one thousand, five thousand and ten thousand rupees that had been reintroduced in 1954.

It inserted the words socialist, secular and integrity into the Preamble, so the description of India became a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic.

The scheme, a component of the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, groups farmers into clusters, supports them with training and inputs for organic cultivation, and certifies the produce through the Participatory Guarantee System of India, in which groups of farmers inspect and vouch for one another.

A benami transfer records land in the name of a relative, a servant or a fictitious person while the real owner keeps control, and it was the commonest device used to stay within the family ceiling on paper while holding far more land in fact, which is one reason so…

A severe balance of payments crisis, with foreign exchange reserves down to a few weeks of imports, forced the government to announce the New Economic Policy in July 1991.

Passed in 1978, it deleted the right to property from Part III and re-enacted it as Article 300A, under which no person may be deprived of property except by authority of law, so the protection is now a legal right enforceable through the ordinary courts rather than a fundamental right.

It is called a command economy because a central planning authority, and not the market, commands how resources are used: it fixes the targets of output, allots raw materials to factories and often fixes prices and wages as well.