Indian Society Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 8)

Sukhu raised the promised monthly payout from Rs 1,100 to Rs 1,500. (The Rs 1,250-from-Rs-1,000 figure instead describes Assam’s Orunodoi 2.0 hike, a different scheme.)

Himachal Pradesh launched the scheme on 25 February 2024, first in the remote district of Lahaul & Spiti.

The budget dropped “Kalaignar” from the scheme’s name and kept its Rs 14,414 crore allocation, but did not deliver TVK’s own campaign promise to raise the payout to Rs 2,500.

Stalin lost his own seat, Kolathur, to a TVK candidate, and resigned as Chief Minister on 5 May 2026.

The DMK and AIADMK had alternated in power in Tamil Nadu since 1967, until TVK’s 2026 win broke that pattern.

The scheme pays Rs 1,000 a month, reaching about 1.06 crore women heads of households. (Rs 1,250 a month instead describes Assam’s Orunodoi, a different scheme.)

Tamil Nadu launched the scheme on 15 September 2023, under then Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, in Kanchipuram.

Provisional turnout was 71.6 per cent for women and 62.8 per cent for men.

That is a gap of about 8.8 percentage points.

Bihar’s November 2025 turnout was above 67 per cent.

It was the highest in the state since Independence.

Each woman first gets ₹10,000 by Direct Benefit Transfer.

After about six months, her progress is assessed.

She can then get up to ₹2 lakh more.

Bihar’s government launched the scheme on 8 September 2025. PM Modi later formally transferred the first round of funds on 26 September 2025.

The correct answer is Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000. The June 2024 order raised the pension for people confined to a wheelchair or bed by paralysis. It gave the same rise to severe muscular dystrophy cases and accident victims.

The correct answer is Rs 4,000. Most categories, such as old age and widow pensions, rose from Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 a month. The hike counts from April 2024.

The correct answer is an ED arrest and later bail, with Champai Soren serving as interim CM. Hemant Soren resigned before his arrest on 31 January 2024. Champai Soren became Chief Minister. Hemant Soren was released on 28 June 2024 and took oath again on 4 July 2024.

The correct answer is 56. The JMM-led alliance won 56 of the 81 seats. The BJP-led NDA won 24.

The correct answer is Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,500. The scheme began at Rs 1,000 a month. A Cabinet decision ahead of the election announcement raised it to Rs 2,500. The first Rs 2,500 instalment was paid for December 2024.

The correct answer is CM Hemant Soren, in Pakur. He launched the scheme there on 18 August 2024, a day before Raksha Bandhan. The first Rs 1,000 instalment went to 57,120 women.

The correct answer is Rs 26,000. The 26th instalment came on 6 April 2026. By then each active woman had received 26 payments of Rs 1,000.

The correct answer is widows, divorced and deserted women. They qualify along with married women. Unmarried women do not qualify, whatever their age or income.

The correct answer is Vishnu Deo Sai. He took oath as Chief Minister on 13 December 2023, after the BJP won the state election. He is the first tribal Chief Minister from the BJP in Chhattisgarh.

The correct answer is Rs 1,000. The scheme pays Rs 1,000 every month to eligible married women by direct bank transfer. That makes Rs 12,000 a year.

The correct answer is 1 March 2024. The scheme began on that date under Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai. The first instalment of about Rs 655 crore was paid on 10 March 2024. The other dates in the options are not the launch date.

The same government cut KALIA’s farmer payout by more than half under the new CM-KISAN Yojana, even as it launched Subhadra, a much larger scheme for women.

Enrollment crossed 1 crore women across all 30 districts of Odisha by April 2026, against a total scheme outlay of about Rs 55,825 crore.