The Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojana of Bihar, credited with raising the enrolment of girls in secondary schools, gives a cycle to girls of which class?
- A.Class 5
- B.Class 8
- C.Class 9
- D.Class 12
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Class 9. The scheme, begun in 2006, gives money to buy a bicycle to girls who enter Class 9, the point at which many girls used to drop out because the high school was several kilometres from the village. Studies of the scheme found a clear rise in the enrolment and retention of girls at the secondary stage, and the state later extended the benefit to boys as well.
Option A, Class 5, and option B, Class 8, are stages at which the school is usually within the village itself, so distance was not the barrier there. Option D, Class 12, is too late, since the aim was to carry a girl across the entry to high school. The scheme is asked with the Poshak Yojana for school uniforms and the Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana, which pays a girl in instalments from birth through her school years up to graduation, so group the three as the state’s girl education package.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Saat Nischay, or seven resolves, programme began to be implemented in Bihar in which year?
- A.2006
- B.2011
- C.2016
- D.2021
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Read the full explanation →Which resolve of the Saat Nischay programme is known as Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal?
- A.Piped drinking water to every household
- B.Electricity to every household
- C.A toilet in every house
- D.A paved lane in front of every house
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Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal is the resolve to take piped drinking water to every household, carried out by the Public Health Engineering Department in the towns and larger habitations and through the panchayats in the villages, and it had a special importance in Bihar because of arsenic, fluoride and…
Read the full explanation →Under the Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, what is the maximum education loan a student can get?
- A.Rs 1 lakh
- B.Rs 2 lakh
- C.Rs 4 lakh
- D.Rs 10 lakh
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The Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, part of the first of the seven resolves, offers a loan of up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education after the intermediate, the state guaranteeing the loan through the Bihar State Education Finance Corporation so that a student without security can borrow for…
Read the full explanation →Under the Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, the rate of simple interest charged to a woman applicant is:
- A.One per cent
- B.Four per cent
- C.Seven per cent
- D.Nine per cent
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Read the full explanation →The Kushal Yuva Program of Bihar gives training mainly in:
- A.Tractor repair and welding
- B.Communication skills, behavioural skills and basic computer use
- C.Organic farming
- D.Weaving and handicraft
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The Kushal Yuva Program, run at Kushal Yuva Kendras under the first of the seven resolves, trains young people who have passed at least Class 10 in life skills and behaviour, in spoken and written communication in Hindi and English, and in the use of a computer, so that they…
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