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A sole objective of GATT set up is _______________________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1.  to reduce barriers of international trade

  2. to create international peace

  3. to develop underdeveloped/developing countries

  4. to boost Tariff and non-Tariff Trade

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

GATT's main objective was to reduce barriers to international trade through the reduction of tariffs, quotas and subsidies.
 It has since been superseded by the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

NREGA stands for ____.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

  2. National Rural Estates Grant Act

  3. National Rural Education Grant Act

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
NREGA - National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Under NREGA (2005), all those who are able to and in need of work are guaranteed 100 days of employment in a year by the government. If the government fails in its duty to provide employment, it will give unemployment allowances to the people.

The Employees Provident Fund Act was passed in the year ________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. 1948

  2. 1971

  3. 1976

  4. 1952

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Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not an employment-generating programme of the Government of India?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. NREGA

  2. SGRY

  3. DPAP

  4. TRYSEM

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

DPAP is not an employment-generating programme of the Government of India. The full form of DPAP is Drought Prone Areas Programme. It is launched by the Central Government in 1973-74. It is launched to support handle special problems of the drought prone areas.

Fringe benefits includes ______________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Financial facility

  2. Housing

  3. Health

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D

Employment Guarantee Scheme was first introduced in which of the following states?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Odisha

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Punjab

  4. Uttar Pradesh

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Employment Guarantee Scheme was first introduced in Maharasthra in $1972-73$. The scheme was the first of its kind to give recognition to the 'right to work' enshrined in the constitution. It emboided a commitment by the state to provide work to a person who comes forward to offer labour.

Disguised unemployment in the agricultural sector of India exists due to the ______.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. dependence of agriculture on the monsoons

  2. abolition of zamindari

  3. heavy pressure of population on land

  4. absence of trade unions in the agriculture sector

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Dependency on agriculture is increasing day by day because of lack of alternative employment opportunities and burgeoning population resulting in disguised unemployment. In fact overcrowding and consequent pressure of population on land have led to the sub-division and fragmentation of holdings decline in area of land per capita and disguised employment in agriculture.

Which means deciding the value of the work done by the individual?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Performance appraisal

  2. Task

  3. Action

  4. Reward

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Correct Option: A

The job redesign includes ________________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Provide task closure

  2. Person

  3. System

  4. Casting

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Correct Option: A

Critical incident method is a method of _____________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Performance appraisal

  2. Promotion

  3. Laws

  4. Market

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Correct Option: A