Indian Society Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 6)

Correct because all three statements are true. NFHS-5 (2019-21) put India’s TFR at 2.0. Mission Parivar Vikas was announced in 2016 and rolled out in 2017. It concentrates on 146 high-fertility districts in seven states. The Population Education Programme began in 1980 with UNFPA support and ran through NCERT.

Correct because the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 strengthens the legal minimum age for marriage. The PCPNDT Act instead targets sex-selective abortion. Delayed marriage is a core objective of population education.

Correct because the National Population Policy 2000 targeted a total fertility rate of 2.1 by 2010. It also aimed at an infant mortality rate below 30 and a maternal mortality ratio below 100. NFHS-5 later recorded India’s TFR at 2.0, below replacement level.

Correct because NCERT redesigned the 1980 Population Education Programme as the Adolescence Education Programme in 2005. The revised programme adds life-skills education on puberty, relationships and decision-making. SCERTs and DIETs then train teachers to deliver it in schools.

Correct because India launched the world’s first national family planning programme in 1952, just five years after independence. It remains the oldest state family planning programme anywhere. The move made population control a formal government priority.

Correct because agglomeration economies let firms share suppliers, skills and infrastructure, raising productivity and wages. The resulting thick labour markets keep pulling migrants to big cities.

Correct because Census 2011 counted 45.6 crore internal migrants, and marriage dominates female migration while employment dominates male migration. Rural-to-rural moves still outnumber rural-to-urban moves.

Correct because Harris–Todaro says migrants compare expected income, not actual wages. A modest chance of a well-paid urban job can still beat certain low rural earnings.

Correct because pull factors are the attractions of the destination, such as urban jobs, higher wages and better schools. Drought, land fragmentation and poor rural healthcare are push factors.

Correct because Census 2011 counted 31.16% of Indians (about 377 million people) as urban residents. Census 2021 was postponed, so 2011 remains the latest full count.

Kamala Sohonie wanted to study at a leading research institute. Its director initially refused to admit women to his laboratory. He relented only under sustained pressure. She went on to become the first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science.

PMAY-U 2.0 targets 1 crore additional eligible beneficiaries, delivered through four verticals: Beneficiary-Led Construction, Affordable Housing in Partnership, Affordable Rental Housing, and an Interest Subsidy Scheme.

AMRUT originally selected 500 cities in 2015. Today, 485 cities remain covered, after 15 were merged with neighbouring urban bodies.

PM SVANidhi has disbursed Rs 18,475.06 crore across 1.15 crore loans to 76.95 lakh street vendors, as of 12 July 2026. The other figures belong to unrelated schemes — eCourts budget allocations and defence exports.

Mary Roy divorced her husband after discovering his alcoholism, then returned to Kerala with her children, an unusual step for a woman in 1960s India, and took up teaching to support her family.

Her daughter Arundhati Roy was among the school’s first students, and went on to win the Booker Prize for her novel ‘The God of Small Things.’

Under the 1916 Act, a daughter was entitled to only a quarter of a son’s share or Rs 5,000, whichever was less, while the widow received a third of the estate.

In Mary Roy v. State of Kerala (1986), the Supreme Court secured equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women in Kerala.

Mary Roy founded the school in 1967, starting with just seven students. It was later named Corpus Christi, and today is known as Pallikoodam.

The correct answer is that it ended its partnership with the Parzor Foundation. From October 2022, the scheme moved to direct DBT through district collectors.

The correct answer is that Health of Community consistently received more funding each year than Medical Assistance. This follows the government’s own year-wise data, from 2023-24 to 2025-26.

The correct answer is to arrest the declining population of India’s Parsi community. That is the scheme’s primary objective.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Minority Affairs. It runs the Jiyo Parsi scheme.

The Urban Challenge Fund offers 1 lakh crore rupees in central assistance. Cities can designate private partners as a ‘Special Purpose Urban Infrastructure Manager’ for large projects.

Integrated Command and Control Centres are now operational in all 100 Smart Cities, enabling real-time traffic, waste, and public-safety monitoring through tools like ANPR and facial recognition.