NABARD Manager Grade B Rural Development, Local Governance & Livelihoods: practice questions

Question 1 · medium

Under the standard IRDP subsidy rates, a Scheduled Caste family takes an asset costing 24,000 currency units. Ignoring ceilings, how much must the bank lend?

1. 16,000 currency units
2. 18,000 currency units
3. 12,000 currency units
4. 24,000 currency units

Question 2 · hard

Which set of findings best explains why SGSY was restructured into NRLM in 2011?

1. SGSY had achieved its goals, so a new name was needed
2. SGSY groups were too large, dominated by men, and could not open savings accounts with banks
3. SGSY paid daily wages that exceeded market rates, pulling labour away from farms and distorting rural labour markets
4. Credit mobilisation fell far short of targets, many SHGs went dormant, and performance varied widely across states

Question 3 · hard

A district official argues that the state government has little financial reason to provide MGNREGS work on time. Which provision most directly counters this argument?

1. The state bears the unemployment allowance when work is not given within 15 days
2. The Centre pays all unskilled wages
3. Wages are paid into bank accounts
4. Works are chosen by the gram sabha

Question 4 · medium

Which worksite facility is mandatory under MGNREGA where more than five children under six years are present?

1. A primary school
2. A mid-day meal kitchen
3. A crèche with a person to look after the children
4. A mobile health clinic

Question 5 · medium

Under PMAY-G, a house in a Himalayan state has unit assistance of 130,000 currency units (original norm). With 90:10 Centre-state sharing, what is the central share?

1. 78,000 currency units
2. 130,000 currency units
3. 108,000 currency units
4. 117,000 currency units

Question 6 · medium

Under DAY-NRLM, the principle of universal social mobilisation means:

1. Every adult in a village, man or woman, must join an SHG before receiving any scheme benefit
2. At least one woman member from each identified poor rural household is brought into an SHG
3. Men and women must be in mixed groups
4. Only households with land may form groups

Question 7 · medium

Under the 73rd Amendment, the intermediate (block) tier of panchayats may be omitted by states with a population below:

1. 5,000,000
2. 1,000,000
3. 10,000,000
4. 2,000,000

Question 8 · hard

What was distinctive about the benefit-sharing arrangement at Sukhomajri?

1. Water rights from the small dams were given to every household, including the landless, who could sell their share
2. Water was allotted only to landowners, in proportion to the land each held in the command area
3. The forest department took all grass and timber revenue
4. Benefits were auctioned each year to outside contractors, and the proceeds were shared by the forest department and panchayat

Question 9 · medium

Ten people have daily incomes [40, 60, 80, 90, 95, 110, 120, 150, 200, 300] and the poverty line is 100. What is the poverty gap index?

1. 0.270
2. 0.500
3. 0.865
4. 0.135

Question 10 · medium

The main equity criticism of land-based income support such as PM-KISAN is that it:

1. Pays more per hectare to large farmers than small
2. Excludes tenant farmers and landless labourers, who are among the poorest
3. Requires beneficiaries to work 100 days
4. Is paid only in kind