Indian Society Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 2)

A departmental check found about 3,000 such cases. One report named 2,960 government employees. Recovery from them is under way.

Griha Aadhar is for women from families with annual income below ₹3 lakh. Families with other government financial benefits are also disqualified.

Women whose husbands are employed in government or public sector undertakings are disqualified. So are women in government service.

BBBP’s strategy includes implementing the PC&PNDT Act. The scheme addresses the falling child sex ratio.

The scheme was launched at Panipat, Haryana. It went pan-India in 2018, starting at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.

The Directorate of Women and Child Development runs Griha Aadhar. The sister Dayanand scheme sits with Social Welfare.

The scheme pays ₹1,500 a month. The money goes into the beneficiary’s Aadhaar-linked bank account.

The Government enacted the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 to curb child marriages and punish those associated with them.

The National Health Mission says India launched its national programme in 1952. Government sources describe it as the first in the world.

The scheme does not replace existing welfare schemes. Pensioners keep their pensions in full. They also get the new monthly money.

The state sanctioned ₹9,300 crore in the 2026-27 Budget. Reports say the scheme is meant for nearly 90 lakh women.

A woman must be 18 or older and registered as a voter in Punjab. She needs an Aadhaar that shows a Punjab address. She also needs a valid Voter ID.

At registration she also shows a bank passbook. Scheduled Caste women add a caste certificate.

Scheduled Caste women get ₹1,500 a month. All other eligible women get ₹1,000 a month.

The money goes straight into their bank accounts by Direct Benefit Transfer.

The family income must be under ₹2.5 lakh a year. The woman must be above 21 years.

Each woman gets ₹1,000 a month. The ₹2,500 figure was only a TVK campaign promise.

₹1,000 goes into the Central Bank Digital Currency wallet for household spending. The other ₹1,500 goes into a recurring or fixed deposit. Under the second option, all ₹2,500 goes into a deposit.

Only the eldest eligible woman in a family can apply. Only one woman from each family can receive the benefit. She must also be aged 21 to 60 and have lived in Delhi for 10 years.

CM Stalin launched it in Kanchipuram, the birthplace of Annadurai. It was Annadurai’s birth anniversary.

The Court held that section 29(2) of the 1925 Act did not save the 1092 Act. A 2009 Kerala High Court case repeats this.

The Part B States (Laws) Act, 1951 extended the 1925 Act from 1 April 1951. This repealed the old Travancore Act.

Her debut book, Jhansir Rani, described the bravery and martyrdom of Laxmibai, the Queen of Jhansi.

She collected myths, legends and ballads from her heroine’s old kingdom to write it.

The novel has the backdrop of the Naxalite movement. A mother tries to understand her son, who dies as a Naxalite fighter.

It was inspired by Maxim Gorky’s novel Mother.

She took up the cause of the Lodhas of Midnapur and the Kheria Sabars of Purulia. The British had notified both groups as “criminals” in 1871.

The tribes were denotified after independence. The stigma stayed. Purulia became the centre of her activism.

The PIB table shows ₹2.93 crore for Health of Community, ₹0.24 crore for Medical and ₹0.29 crore for Advocacy in 2025-26.

The Jiyo Parsi portal says eligible couples get assistance through Direct Benefit Transfer. States get beneficiaries verified, including by biometric authentication.