Which policy instrument most directly drives the structural expansion of Rural Non- Farm Employment (RNFE) in India?
Promotion of self-employment under NRLM
Rural Non-Farm Employment (RNFE) means rural jobs outside agriculture – small manufacturing, trade, services, handicrafts, food processing and similar enterprises.
Its structural expansion requires moving rural workers into such enterprises. The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM, now DAY-NRLM) does this directly by organising poor households into Self-Help Groups, giving them credit, skills and market links, and promoting self-employment and micro-enterprises.
The Public Distribution System provides subsidised food grains; it supports consumption and food security but does not create non-farm jobs.
Minimum Support Price stabilises the prices of farm produce, which supports farm incomes and keeps the focus on agriculture rather than diversification away from it.
Input subsidies on fertiliser, seeds, power and irrigation lower the cost of farming; they too strengthen farm activity, not non-farm employment.
Hence, the answer is Promotion of self-employment under NRLM.
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- Arrange the following plans from the highest (national) to the lowest (local) administrative level:
A. State Disaster Management Plan (SDMP)
B. National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP)
C. National Policy on Disaster Management (NPDM)
D. District Disaster Management Plan (DDMP)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below : - Arrange the following government policies in chronological (early to latest) order of their implementation.
A. National Water Policy
B. National Forest Policy
C. National Agricultural Policy
D. National Environmental Policy
E. National Policy for Farmers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below : - Arrange the following Policies/Acts of India according to their year (early to latest) of launch/enactment.
A. Project Elephant
B. Ganga Action Plan
C. Project Tiger
D. Climate Change Knowledge Portal
E. Environment (Protection) Act
Choose the correct answer from the options given below : Choose the correct statements with reference to the Disaster Management Act, 2005
A. It has 10 chapters and 90 sections
B. It extends to the whole of India
C. The main focus is to give life back to the people who are affected with disaster
D. It provides effective management of disaster
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A Ten-point agenda were enunciated by Prime Minister of India at the Asian Ministrial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2016. The agenda are:
A. Invest in risk mapping globally
B. Develop a network of universities to work on disaster related issues
C. Men's leadership should be central to disaster risk management
D. Build on local capacity and initiative to enhance disaster risk reduction
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
