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Government took the measure for food security by _____.

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  1. Introducing Public Distribution System

  2. Maintaining buffer stock

  3. Providing employment opportunities 

  4. Both A and B

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Government took the measure for food security by introducing Public Distribution System. The function is making available foodgrains to the poor at highly subsidised rates.

Price lower than the market price is called _____.

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  1. Product price

  2. Minimum price

  3. Issue price

  4. Maximum price

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Issue price means the price lower than the market price.

_____ was the year when the methods to bring a Green Revolution were introduced in India.

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  1. 1943

  2. 1963

  3. 1985

  4. 1996

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The methods to bring about a Green Revolution was first introduced in 1963 by Dr. Norman Borlaug, an American agro-scientist. The methods adopted included the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds that resulted in higher production of foodgrains.

Public Distribution System (PDS) is operated under the responsibility of:
1. Central Government
2. State Government

geography food security in india components of food security government measures for food security important index numbers

  1. Only 1 is true

  2. Only 2 is true

  3. Both 1 and 2 are true

  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is true

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food security system. Established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution, the scheme is managed jointly by State governments. It distributes subsidized food and non-food items to India's poor.

Cooperative societies set up shops to sell low priced goods to _____.

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  1. Rich people

  2. Educated people

  3. Illiterate people

  4. Poor people

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The cooperatives societies set up shops to sell low priced goods to poor people. In Tamil Nadu, around 94% shops are run by the cooperatives.

Amul, a success story of cooperatives in milk and milk products, is from ____.

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  1. Utter Pradesh

  2. Gujarat

  3. Rajasthan

  4. Haryana

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Amul is the success story of cooperatives in milk and milk products from Gujarat. It has brought White Revolution in India.

Mother Dairy is making strides in provision of milk and vegetables to the consumers at controlled rates decided by _____.

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  1. Government of Bihar

  2. Government of Gujarat

  3. Government of Punjab

  4. Government of Delhi

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Mother Dairy is making strides in provision of milk and vegetables to the consumers at controlled rates which is decided by Delhi Government.

Public Distribution System (PDS) is the most important step taken by the Government of India towards ____________________.

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  1. Ensuring water security

  2. Ensuring milk security

  3. Ensuring food security

  4. Ensuring fans security

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Public Distribution System (PDS) is an Indian food security system. Established by the Government of India, it distributes subsidized food and non-food items to the poor. This scheme was launched in India on June 1947. Food security means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times.

In India, the Public Distribution System is related to _______.

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  1. Distribution of money

  2. Distribution of health care

  3. Distribution of education

  4. Distribution of food grains

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Major commodities distributed under public distribution system include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene, through a network of fair price shops. Food Corporation of India, a Government-owned corporation, procures foodgrains and maintains the PDS.

Which of the following types of people are most likely to have food security?

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  1. Workers employed in ill-paying jobs

  2. Daily wage workers

  3. Landless labourers

  4. Workers employed in call-centres

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Food security is nothing but the opportunity to gain food all along which is possible to people who have continuous work. Among the given options, workers employed in ill-paying jobs, daily wage workers, landless laborers do not get enough pay or continuous work and hence food security is seen only for call centre workers.