NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A (RDBS) · India · National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
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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How our questions for NABARD Assistant Manager Grade A spread across the units of Rural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods. Difficulty: 27 easy, 31 medium, 1 hard.
| MGNREGS | 9 | |
| National Rural Livelihoods Mission | 8 | |
| Poverty alleviation strategies | 7 | |
| PMGSY and PMAY-G | 6 | |
| Local government and decentralised planning | 6 | |
| IRDP, TRYSEM, DWCRA, JRY and SGSY | 5 | |
| Watershed development | 5 | |
| Community development programmes of the mid-20th century | 4 | |
| NGOs and civil society in rural development | 4 | |
| Meaning and problems of rural development | 2 | |
| Pre-Independence experiments: Sriniketan, Marthandam, Gurgaon | 2 | |
| Monitoring and evaluation of development interventions | 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 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.
Under MGNREGA, the employment guarantee applies to:
C. At least 100 days per rural household per financial year
The unit is the household, and the period is the financial year. Extra days (for example 50 more in notified drought areas) are additional provisions, not the general rule.
In a household, three adult members have each worked 30 days under MGNREGS this financial year in an area with no drought notification. How many more days can the household claim under the guarantee?
B. 10
The 100 days are per household, not per person: 3 x 30 = 90 used, so 100 - 90 = 10 remain. Answering 70 or 100 treats the entitlement as per worker.
The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (Aajeevika) was launched in 2011 by restructuring:
D. SGSY
NRLM restructured SGSY in June 2011. IRDP had already been merged into SGSY in 1999.
The 'panchasutra' taught to SHGs consists of:
C. Meetings, savings, lending, repayment and books
The five 'sutras' are the basic disciplines of a functioning SHG and the first things checked when grading a group for bank linkage. In full: regular meetings, regular savings, regular internal lending, timely repayment and up-to-date books of account.
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.
A village has 250 eligible PM-KISAN beneficiary families. What total amount reaches the village in one instalment?
C. 500,000 currency units
One instalment is 2,000 currency units per family: 250 x 2,000 = 500,000. 1,500,000 currency units is the annual total. 1,000,000 currency units counts two instalments, and 125,000 uses the monthly equivalent of 500.
Under MGNREGA, the social audit is conducted by:
D. The gram sabha, with facilitation by an independent social audit unit
Section 17 requires the gram sabha to audit all works. The practice grew from MKSS public hearings in Rajasthan in the 1990s. Contractors are not permitted under MGNREGA.
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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