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PMRY stands for ___________.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Prime Minister's Rural Yojana

  2. Post Minister's Rozgar Yojana

  3. Post Minister's Rural Yojana

  4. Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana

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Correct Option: D

MWS means ___________.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Most Wells Scheme

  2. Million Wells Suchna

  3. Million Wells Scheme

  4. Million Wanted Scheme

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Correct Option: C

For calculating an unemployment rate for any reference year generally.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Open unemployment status is taken

  2. Weekly status of unemployment

  3. Daily status of unemployment

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

Unemployed as a percentage of total labour force worked out to ________  for the country as a whole.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. 10.4 per cent

  2. 20.4 per cent

  3. 30.4 per cent

  4. 40.4 per cent

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Correct Option: A

A person working for 8 hours a day for _______  of the year is regarded as employed on a standard person year basis.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. 300 days

  2. 365 days

  3. 273 days

  4. 333 days

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Correct Option: C

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGs) Act passed in __________. 

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. September, 1995

  2. September, 2000

  3. September, 2005

  4. September, 2010

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Correct Option: C

Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) was introduced to combine ____________.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. IRDP and Million Wells Scheme (MWS)

  2. IRDP and Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS)

  3. IRDP and Minimum Wages Act

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

Jawahar Rozgar Yojana has been restructured as _________.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana

  2. Jawahar Gramodyoga Yojana

  3. Jawahar Gram Samaj Yojana

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

SJSRY stands for ___________.

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Swam Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana

  2. Shahari Jivan Sudhar Rashtriya Yojana

  3. Sampoorna Jivan Shahari Rozgar Yojana

  4. Shahari Jayanti Swam Rashtriya Yojana

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Correct Option: A

SJSRY stands for ___________

economics employment: growth, informalisation and other issues measures to alleviate unemployment unemployment measures unemployment and employment generation

  1. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana.

  2. Shahari Jeewan Sudhar Rashtriya Yojana.

  3. Sampoorna Jeewan Shahari Rozgar Yojana.

  4. None of the above.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

SJSRY stands for Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana which was introduced in India on $1^{st}$ Dec, 1997 to provide gainful employment to urban unemployed or underemployed poor.