Indian Society Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 9)

Payments arrive on Rakhi Purnima and International Women’s Day (8 March) each year, directly to Aadhaar-linked bank accounts via Direct Benefit Transfer.

The scheme runs for five years (2024-2029), paying Rs 10,000 a year in two Rs 5,000 installments, for a total of Rs 50,000 per eligible woman.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Subhadra Yojana on 17 September 2024, at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar, under CM Mohan Charan Majhi’s state government.

The correct answer is over 92 lakh, mostly for failed e-KYC. Business Today reports nearly 62 lakh were removed for incomplete e-KYC. Another outlet puts that group at 50 to 55 lakh. Both agree e-KYC was the largest single reason.

The correct answer is Devendra Fadnavis. He took oath on 5 December 2024, for the third time. Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar became the two Deputy Chief Ministers.

The correct answer is 230. The Mahayuti alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP won 230 of the 288 seats. The scheme was touted as one of the main reasons for the win. The alliance had also promised to raise the aid to Rs 2,100.

The correct answer is Rs 1,500 a month, family income under Rs 2.5 lakh. The money goes by Direct Benefit Transfer to women aged 21 to 65. The family income must be below Rs 2.5 lakh a year.

The correct answer is 28 June 2024. The state approved the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana on that date. It was approved just ahead of the November 2024 state election. The other dates in the options are not the approval date.

CM-KISAN Yojana pays small and marginal farmers a reduced Rs 4,000 a year, less than half KALIA’s Rs 10,000, while keeping the Rs 12,500 rate for landless labourers unchanged.

Mohan Charan Majhi was sworn in as Odisha’s first-ever BJP Chief Minister on 12 June 2024, ending the Biju Janata Dal’s 24-year rule under Naveen Patnaik.

KALIA used Direct Benefit Transfer, marking a shift away from earlier loan-waiver-based farmer relief, and it also covered sharecroppers and other vulnerable cultivators.

KALIA paid Rs 10,000 a year to small and marginal farmers, and Rs 12,500 a year to landless agricultural labourers, via Direct Benefit Transfer.

KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) was launched in December 2018, under then-Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s BJD government.

CM Shivakumar ordered all beneficiaries to resubmit applications, after large-scale misuse was found, including deceased and duplicate beneficiaries; formal biometric re-verification began on 30 August 2026.

D K Shivakumar was sworn in as Karnataka’s Chief Minister on 3 June 2026, succeeding Siddaramaiah under a Congress power-sharing arrangement agreed after the party’s 2023 election win.

Gruha Jyothi, which provides free electricity, is another of Congress’s five 2023 Karnataka guarantee schemes, alongside Gruha Lakshmi, Anna Bhagya, Shakti, and Yuva Nidhi.

Gruha Lakshmi pays Rs 2,000 a month to the woman head of an eligible household, via Direct Benefit Transfer.

CM Mohan Yadav announced in 2025 that the monthly amount would rise from Rs 1,250 to Rs 1,500, effective from Diwali 2025, with a further rise to Rs 3,000 planned by 2028.

Ladli Laxmi Yojana, launched in 2007, provides a lump-sum payout for girl children’s education, distinct from Ladli Behna’s monthly cash transfer to adult women.

The scheme began by paying Rs 1,000 a month to eligible women, later raised to Rs 1,250 and then Rs 1,500.

The first installment, Rs 1,000 each, was paid on 10 June 2023, to 1.25 crore beneficiary women.

Ladli Behna Yojana was launched by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 5 March 2023, in Bhopal.

She highlighted forest produce, handicrafts, millets, medicinal plants, eco-tourism, and local entrepreneurship as areas to improve tribal livelihoods.

The correct answer is a 2% reservation in education and government employment. The 2014 Rights of Transgender Persons Bill proposed two percent reservation in education and in government jobs. The 2019 Act did not keep it.

The correct answer is 2 years maximum against 7 years minimum (up to life). The 2019 Act punishes abuse of a transgender person with 6 months to 2 years in jail plus a fine. Other laws punish sexual assault with not less than seven years and up to life. Critics point to this gap.