Social Welfare Schemes and Measures

History of Rural Development

1. Which one of the ancient dynasties was
famous for village administration?
(a) Chola (b) Chera
(c) Pallava (d) Pandya

2. Who said ‘India lives in her villages’?
(a)Sardar Patel
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Gandhiji
(d) Vinoba Bhave

3. Father of Local Self Government in
India:
(a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Dufferin
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Canning

4. Who called villages as ‘Little republics’?
(a) Dalhousie (b) Lord Rippon
(c) Lord Curzon (d) Charles Metcaf

5. Who was the exponent of Sreeniketan
Project?
(a) Gandhiji (b) Tagore
Social Welfare Schemes and Measures
(c) Vinoba Bhave (d) SK Dey

6. Sreeniketan Project was launched in:
(a) 1914 (b) 1924
(c) 1934 (d) 1904

7. Sreeniketan Project was launched in:
(a)UP (b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Punjab (d) Bengal

8. Marthandom Project was launched in
the state of:
(a) Kerala (b) Karnataka
(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu

9. Who was the exponent of Marthandom
Project ?
(a) SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch
(c) FL Brane (d) Tagore

10. Marthandom Project was started in:
(a)1911 (b) 1914
(c) 1921 (d) 1931

11. Gurgaon Project was launched in:
(a) UP (b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Punjab (d) West Bengal

12. Who was the architect of Gurgaon
Project?
(a)SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch
(c) Gandhiji (d) FL Brane

13. Farkha Development Scheme was
introduced in:
(a)Madras (b) Bombay
(c) Bengal (d) Punjab

14. Farkha Development Scheme was
introduced in the year:
(a)1943 (b) 1946
(c) 1948 (d) 1958

15. Ittawa Project was implemented in:
(a)Punjab (b) Madras
(c) Bengal (d) Uttar Pradesh

16. The exponent of Ittawa Project:
(a)Albert Mayer
(b) Spencer Hatch (c) SK Dey
(d) Gandhiji

17. Ittawa Project was launched in the year:
(a)1948 (b) 1914
(c) 1921 (d) 1946

18. Who launched Sevagram Project?
(a)SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch
(c) Gandhiji (d) FL Brane

19. Sevagram is now in the state of:
(a)Punjab (b) UP
(c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra

20. The father of Nilokheri Experiment:
(a)Gandhiji (b) Vinoba Bhave
(c) SK Dey (d) Albert Mayer

21. The first book on Indian Planning
entitled ‘Planned Economy’ for India
was the attempt of
(a) P.C.Mahalanobis
(b) Dadabhai Navroji
(c) M.Visvesvarayya
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

22. People’s Plan was envisaged by
(a) J.R.D.Tata (b) M.N.Roy
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

23. The first Minister for Community
Development in the Central Cabinet
(a) Vallabhbhai Patel
(b) Shanmugham Chetty
(c) John Mathai (d) S.K.Dey

24. In 1938, the National Planning
Committee of Indian National Congress
was set up under the chairmanship of
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(d) Pattabhi Seetharamayya

25. The father of the idea of ‘Gram Swaraj’:
(a)Vinoba Bhave
(b) Gandhiji
(c) Sardar Patel
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answers

1 (a) 2(c) 3 (a) 4 (d) 5(b) 6(a) 7(d) 8(d) 9(b)
10(c) 11(c) 12(d) 13(a) 14(b) 15(d) 16(a) 17(a)
18(c) 19(d) 20(c) 21(c) 22(b) 23(d) 24(a) 25(b)