Solutions 3. Poverty as a challenge - Additional-Question-Answers | Class 9 Economics - Toppers Study

Additional-Question-Answers

Q1. What is uniform standard for determine poverty by world bank?

Answer : International organisations like the World Bank use a uniform standard for the poverty line: minimum availability of the equivalent of
$1 per person per day.

Q2. What does poverty mean?
Answer: Poverty or poverty is a condition in which the minimum utilization of living life is called inability or inability to achieve human needs such as bread, cloth, housing, education and health is called poverty.

Q3. When the Prime Minister's Employment Plan was launched and mentioned its main two objectives.
Answer: The prime minister's employment scheme was launched in 200 districts on February 2, 2006.

Its two main objectives are the following.

1. No person in India should be poor.
2. Providing employment opportunities by making funds for educated educated unemployed under this scheme so that unemployment is low.

Q4. Describe the four major causes of poverty in India.
Answer: India has the following reasons for poverty: -
1. Continuous growing population: - Wild growth in population is the main reason of poverty in India.
2. Illiteracy: - Because of illiteracy, the exploiters of the workers, laborers and peasants in the cities or villages exploit and do not get proper wages.
3. Unemployment - Unemployment is one of the main causes of poverty in India.
4. Social Reasons: On the occasion of marriage or festivals, people spend their time in debt by taking loans and drowning in debt.

Q5. Which is the poorest state in India?
Answer: Orissa.

Q6.- What is the purpose of the Mid-Day meal plan for school going children?
Answer: The main purpose of lunch plan is as follows: -
(i) Students' attendance can be ensured.
(ii) Their nutritional status can be improved.

(iii) Removing social enequalities among children. 

Q7. Describe the major causes of poverty in India.
Answer: The main reason for poverty in India is as follow.
(i) Increase in population at a high rate.
(ii) Exploitation - Because of illiteracy, the exploiters of the workers, laborers and peasants do not get proper wages and the poverty goes on increasing.
(iii) Deficit in land resources and unemployment.
(iv) Social, cognitive and economic factors have also been the leading cause of poverty. For example - spending more than festivals, religious rituals and wedding ceremonies.
(iv) More leniency
Q8. Describe the efforts made by the government for poverty alleviation.
Answer: The efforts made by the government for poverty alleviation are the following.
(i) National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Act
(ii) Food plans instead of national work.
(iii) Prime Minister's Employment Plan
(iv) Golden Jubilee Rural Self Employment Scheme
(v) Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana
(vi) Antyodaya Anna Yojana.
    All the above schemes have been run by the government for poverty alleviation, which provides employment and self employment to poor, unemployed backward people. Their aim is to bring the poorest people out of poverty line.
Q9. What are the main features of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Act 2005?
Answer: The following are the main features of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Act 2005.
(i) Every family has 100 days employment guarantee in 200 districts.
(ii) This scheme is reserved for one-third of working women.
(iii) The Central Government will also set up the National Employment Guarantee Fund.
(iv) If employment is not provided within 15 days then unemployment allowance will also be available.