ICAR AIEEA-PG (Master's admission and PG scholarship) · India · National Testing Agency for ICAR
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersThe meaning and problems of rural development, the major rural development and employment programmes compared across regions, livelihood frameworks, and managing and evaluating development work.
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ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 06 (Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Extension Education)
Chronology and founders of the pre-Independence experiments, Etawah and CDP (1952, 55 projects), Balwant Rai Mehta and the three tiers, IRDP-to-SGSY mergers, MGNREGS entitlements, NRLM structure, 73rd Amendment provisions, and definitions (rural development, livelihood).
How our questions for ICAR AIEEA-PG spread across the units of Rural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods. Difficulty: 23 easy, 18 medium, 0 hard.
| Pre-Independence experiments: Sriniketan, Marthandam, Gurgaon | 6 | |
| Community development programmes of the mid-20th century | 6 | |
| Local government and decentralised planning | 6 | |
| IRDP, TRYSEM, DWCRA, JRY and SGSY | 5 | |
| Monitoring and evaluation of development interventions | 5 | |
| Meaning and problems of rural development | 3 | |
| NGOs and civil society in rural development | 3 | |
| MGNREGS | 2 | |
| Watershed development | 2 | |
| PMGSY and PMAY-G | 1 | |
| National Rural Livelihoods Mission | 1 | |
| Livelihood frameworks | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The rural reconstruction experiment at Marthandam was associated with:
C. Spencer Hatch of the YMCA
Spencer Hatch began the YMCA's rural demonstration centre at Marthandam in Travancore in 1921. Tagore is Sriniketan, Brayne is Gurgaon, and Mayer is the Etawah Pilot Project (1948).
What is the main lesson usually drawn from the fading of the Gurgaon experiment after its leader was transferred?
D. Top-down change without people's own organisations does not last
Gurgaon achieved quick results through official pressure, but gains faded when Brayne left, because villagers had not built their own institutions. This lesson later reappeared in the Balwant Rai Mehta critique of CDP.
Who led the Etawah Pilot Project begun in 1948?
A. Albert Mayer
Albert Mayer, an American planner, led the Etawah project in Uttar Pradesh. Hatch was at Marthandam; Balwant Rai Mehta reviewed CDP in 1957.
What was the main finding of the Balwant Rai Mehta team (1957) about CDP and NES?
A. They had built infrastructure and an administrative network but failed to win people's participation
The team found CDP was seen as a government programme and recommended democratic decentralisation through elected three-tier bodies. The shift to intensive crop programmes (IADP) was a separate later development.
TRYSEM was designed for:
B. Rural youth aged 18 to 35 from below-poverty-line families, trained for self-employment
TRYSEM (1979) trained rural BPL youth. The revolving fund for women's groups was DWCRA (1982-83).
Which is the correct three-tier structure of Kerala's Kudumbashree?
A. Neighbourhood Groups, Area Development Societies, Community Development Societies
Kudumbashree (1998) uses NHGs, ADSs and CDSs linked to local government. SHG-VO-CLF is the NRLM pattern; the others are cooperative and panchayat structures.
The 73rd Constitution Amendment Act came into force on:
D. 24 April 1993
24 April 1993 is observed as National Panchayati Raj Day. 2 October 1959 is the Nagaur inauguration; 1 June 1993 is the date for the 74th (urban) Amendment.
Social fencing (bans on free grazing, tree felling and liquor, with voluntary labour) is associated with the watershed transformation of:
A. Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra
Anna Hazare led Ralegan Siddhi from 1975. Sukhomajri is known for distributing water rights to all households, including the landless.
SEWA, a trade union of self-employed women with its own cooperative bank, was founded in 1972 by:
A. Ela Bhatt
Aruna Roy co-founded MKSS; Manibhai Desai founded BAIF; Fazle Hasan Abed founded BRAC in Bangladesh.
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