Std.

IX-Social Science (2024-25)

(Economics) Ch.3 Poverty As A Challenge WS No. 10
Name: _____________________ Sec.: _____ Roll No.:____ Date:_____
I. Choose the correct option:

1.Which of these can be used as a tool to measure poverty according to World Bank?
a) Income b) Vulnerability c) Lack of access to healthcare d) Sanitation
2. What is the purpose of the Public Distribution System (PDS)?
a) Providing health care facilities to the poor
b) Promoting education among the poor
c) Distributing essential food items to the poor at subsidized rates
d) Creating employment opportunities to the poor

3. Kerala has tried to control poverty by _____________

a) investing in human resource
b) introducing land reform
c) encouraging industrialization
d) investing in agriculture

4. Which of these is a poverty alleviation programme in India?

a) Mid-day meal
b) Bridge Courses
c) REGP
d) Green Revolution

5. Match the following:

Column A Column B
(i) NSSO a. Vulnerable social group
(ii) Scheduled caste b. Land reform measures
(iii) West Bengal c. Poorest state in India
(iv) Bihar d. Conducts sample surveys to determine poverty line
a) i-b, ii-c, iii-a, iv-d c) i-d, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c
b) i-d, ii-a, iii-c, iv-b d) i-a, ii-c, iii-d, iv-b

6. Which one of the following people do not fall under the vulnerable category of poverty?
a) Kamla is a widow in Bihar. She works as a maid and has to take care of her two children.
b) Raju is a construction worker. He lives in a small jhuggi with his family.
c) Rohan works as a daily wage labourer in a village. His village experiences floods almost every
year.
d) Ragini works as a teacher in a small school managed by the Panchayat in her village.

7. A scheme started in 1993 to create self-employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth
in rural areas is _________.
a) MGNREGA b) AAY c) PMRY d) SGSY
8. The monetary requirement is higher in urban areas to calculate poverty because __________
a) they are indulged in more casual work.
b) cost of living is higher in urban areas.
c) they are unemployed.
d) people are engaged in more physical labour.

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9. Who advocated that India would truly be free only when the poorest of its people are free from
suffering?
a) Indira Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Subhash Chandra Bose

10.People earning below _________ a day are considered to be poor according to the international
poverty line(according to 2011-12 data).
a) $2.15 b) $2.90 c) $1.00 d) $1.75

II. Read the statements and choose the correct option:

1. Assertion (A): MGNREGA was launched in 2005.

Reason (R): It was launched to provide free and fair compulsory education to all.
Options:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is correct but R is wrong.
d) A is wrong but R is correct.

2.Assertion (A): Sub Saharan countries witnessed a drastic decline in poverty from 1990-2013.
Reason (R): Because of different poverty line definitions, poverty in India is shown higher than the
national estimates.
Options:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is correct but R is wrong.
d) A is wrong but R is correct.

3. Assertion (A): Raghu belongs to the scheduled caste and is from a poor family. He faces
discrimination at his workplace.
Reason (R): Social exclusion can be a consequence of poverty.
Options:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is correct but R is wrong.
d) A is wrong but R is correct.

4. Assertion (A): The results of the anti-poverty programmes are mixed.

Reason (R): Less effectiveness is due to lack of the proper definition of a poverty line.
Options:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is correct but R is wrong.
d) A is wrong but R is correct.

III. Answer the following questions:

1.Why do different countries use different poverty lines?
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 2. Study the given bar graph carefully and answer the following questions:

(a)Identify the three states where the poverty ratio is the highest and state two reasons for high
poverty ratio.
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(b) Identify the three states where poverty ratio is the lowest and explain why they have low poverty
ratio.
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3. Study the table below and answer the following questions:

(a) Even if poverty ratio declined between 1993–94 and 2004–05, why did the number of poor remain
at about 407 million?
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(b) Are the dynamics of poverty reduction the same in rural and urban India?
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4. Study the graphs and answer the following questions:

(a) Identify the areas of the world where poverty ratios have declined.
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(b)Identify the area of the globe which has the largest concentration of the poor.
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5. Refer to the case of Lakha Singh and answer the following questions:
Lakha Singh belongs to a small village near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. His family doesn’t own any
land, so they do odd jobs for the big farmers. Work is erratic and so is income. At times they get paid
Rs 50 for a hard day’s work. But often it’s in kind like a few kilograms of wheat or dal or even
vegetables for toiling in the farm through the day. The family of eight cannot always manage two
square meals a day. Lakha lives in a kuchha hut on the outskirts of the village. The women of the
family spend the day chopping fodder and collecting firewood in the fields. His father a TB patient,
passed away two years ago due to lack of medication. His mother now suffers from the same disease
and life is slowly ebbing away. Although, the village has a primary school, Lakha never went there.
He had to start earning when he was 10 years old. New clothes happen once in a few years. Even
soap and oil are a luxury for the family.
(a) State common characteristics of the poor people.
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