UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — INCLUSION OF RURAL FAMILIES IN DAY-NRLM

Q1. DAY-NRLM, the programme that has mobilised over 10 crore rural households into Self Help Groups, is implemented as the flagship poverty-alleviation mission of which one of the following Union Ministries?

  • A. Ministry of Rural Development
  • B. Ministry of Women and Child Development
  • C. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  • D. Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Q2. In the lineage of DAY-NRLM, the erstwhile scheme 'SGSY' which was restructured in 2010 to create the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), stands for which one of the following?

  • A. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
  • B. Sampoorna Grameen Swarojgar Yojana
  • C. Swarnajayanti Shahari Swarozgar Yojana
  • D. Swaran Gram Samriddhi Yojana

Q3. The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) was renamed as the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) in which one of the following years?

  • A. 2011
  • B. 2013
  • C. 2016
  • D. 2023

Q4. In DAY-NRLM's funding architecture, the 'National Rural Livelihoods Project (NRLP)' is best described as which one of the following?

  • A. The World Bank-aided component implemented in selected states, districts and blocks to build institutional and capacity support
  • B. The Revolving Fund corpus given directly to every registered Self Help Group
  • C. The interest-subvention window that subsidises SHG bank loans
  • D. The sub-scheme providing safe, affordable community-monitored rural transport services

Q5. DAY-NRLM is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The Centre : State fund-sharing ratio applicable to the North-Eastern and Himalayan States under it is which one of the following?

  • A. 60 : 40
  • B. 75 : 25
  • C. 90 : 10
  • D. 50 : 50

Q6. In the three-tier community institutional architecture of DAY-NRLM, which one of the following constitutes the apex (highest) federation tier?

  • A. Self Help Group
  • B. Village Organisation
  • C. Cluster Level Federation
  • D. Producer Group

Q7. Under DAY-NRLM, the community institutions of the rural poor (the Self Help Group and its successive higher federations) are organised into how many tiers?

  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Four
  • D. Five

Q8. The national campaign 'Sangathan se Samriddhi – Leaving no Rural Woman Behind', aimed at mobilising the residual eligible rural women into Self Help Groups, was launched under DAY-NRLM in which year?

  • A. 2019
  • B. 2021
  • C. 2023
  • D. 2025

Q9. DAY-NRLM is officially described as the world's largest of which one of the following?

  • A. Microfinance lending programme
  • B. Community-based institutional platform of women
  • C. Rural cooperative banking network
  • D. Conditional cash-transfer welfare scheme

Q10. Under DAY-NRLM — the mission through which states such as Jharkhand mobilise their rural poor — a 'Self Help Group (SHG)' is best defined as which one of the following?

  • A. A small voluntary association of poor rural people, usually women, who pool their savings and access credit collectively
  • B. A statutory local self-government body constituted under the 73rd Constitutional Amendment
  • C. A specialised bank branch established exclusively to lend to rural women
  • D. A government department that directly disburses subsidies to rural households