UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — NALSA SAMVAD Scheme, 2025 seeks to improve legal awareness, outreach and delivery of legal services by adopting a community-based outreach-driven approach
Q1. The SAMVAD Scheme, 2025, aimed at delivering community-based legal services to Scheduled Tribes, PVTGs and Denotified/Nomadic Tribes, was launched by which one of the following bodies?
- A. National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)
- B. Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- C. National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
- D. National Human Rights Commission
Q2. In the context of the NALSA SAMVAD Scheme, 2025, the acronym 'SAMVAD' stands for which one of the following?
- A. Strengthening Access to Justice for Marginalized, Vulnerable Adivasis and Denotified/Nomadic Tribes
- B. Scheme for Awareness, Mediation, Vigilance and Aid to Disadvantaged groups
- C. Solidarity and Mobilisation for Vulnerable Adivasi Development
- D. Support for Access to Maintenance, Vocation and Dispute-resolution
Q3. With reference to the constitutional and statutory framework of free legal aid in India, consider the following:
1. Article 39A places free legal aid within the Directive Principles of State Policy.
2. NALSA was constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
3. The Legal Services Authorities Act came into force in the year 1995.
4. District Legal Services Authorities are chaired by the District Collector.
Which of the above is/are correctly identified?
- Article 39A places free legal aid within the Directive Principles of State Policy.
- NALSA was constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
- The Legal Services Authorities Act came into force in the year 1995.
- District Legal Services Authorities are chaired by the District Collector.
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 2 and 4 only
- C. 1, 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Q4. Article 39A, which provides the constitutional basis for free legal aid schemes such as SAMVAD, was inserted into the Constitution of India by which one of the following amendments?
- A. The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
- B. The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
- C. The 86th Amendment Act, 2002
- D. The 61st Amendment Act, 1989
Q5. Under the institutional architecture of the SAMVAD Scheme, 2025, the SAMVAD Units created for the scheme have been constituted exclusively at which one of the following levels?
- A. District level
- B. State level
- C. Taluk level
- D. National level
Q6. Under the SAMVAD Scheme, the identification and mapping of tribal communities for the delivery of legal services is carried out taking which one of the following as the base administrative unit?
- A. Taluk
- B. District
- C. Gram Panchayat
- D. Revenue Village
Q7. The NALSA scheme titled 'Legal Services to Senior Citizens' was formulated in which one of the following years?
- A. 2016
- B. 2013
- C. 2019
- D. 2021
Q8. The following statements compare the SAMVAD Scheme with other target-group schemes of NALSA:
1. Unlike SAMVAD which targets tribal communities, NALSA's 2024 Child-Friendly Legal Services scheme is directed at children.
2. NALSA's scheme for persons with mental illness and intellectual disabilities was formulated in 2024.
3. Both the SAMVAD Scheme and NALSA's scheme for disaster victims restrict eligibility to Scheduled Tribes alone.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- Unlike SAMVAD which targets tribal communities, NALSA's 2024 Child-Friendly Legal Services scheme is directed at children.
- NALSA's scheme for persons with mental illness and intellectual disabilities was formulated in 2024.
- Both the SAMVAD Scheme and NALSA's scheme for disaster victims restrict eligibility to Scheduled Tribes alone.
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 2 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q9. With reference to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in India, consider the following:
1. PVTGs are characterised by a pre-agricultural level of technology.
2. There are 75 PVTGs currently notified in the country.
3. PVTGs are spread across 18 States and one Union Territory.
4. PVTGs are identified on the basis of a relatively high and steadily growing population.
Which of the above is/are NOT correctly identified?
- PVTGs are characterised by a pre-agricultural level of technology.
- There are 75 PVTGs currently notified in the country.
- PVTGs are spread across 18 States and one Union Territory.
- PVTGs are identified on the basis of a relatively high and steadily growing population.
- A. 1 and 2
- B. 2 and 3
- C. 3 only
- D. 4 only
Q10. The Centrally Sponsored scheme for the 'Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG)' is administered by which one of the following Union Ministries?
- A. Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- B. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- C. Ministry of Rural Development
- D. Ministry of Home Affairs
Q11. The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the nodal body implementing the SAMVAD Scheme, is a statutory body functioning under the administrative aegis of which one of the following Union Ministries?
- A. Ministry of Law and Justice
- B. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- C. Ministry of Home Affairs
- D. Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Q12. The 2024 MoU between the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment and NALSA envisaged legal awareness generation primarily on how many principal social-justice Acts (namely the Protection of Civil Rights Act and the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act)?
- A. Two
- B. One
- C. Three
- D. Four