UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — “Empowering women is central to building a Viksit Bharat”: Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

Question 1

As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Annual Report 2025, which one of the following categories recorded the HIGHEST Labour Force Participation Rate (usual status)?

Accepted Answer

Rural female workers

Answer

Urban female workers

Answer

All-India female workers (15+)

Answer

All-India female workers in December 2025

Question 2

With reference to the female labour-force data in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Annual Report 2025, consider the following statements:
1. The all-India female Labour Force Participation Rate (15+) stood at 40.0%.
2. The rural female LFPR (45.9%) exceeded the urban female LFPR.
3. The report is based on a July-to-June survey year.
4. The female LFPR rose from a baseline of 23.3% in 2017-18 to the 2025 level.
Which of the statements given above are correct?

Accepted Answer

1, 2 and 4

Answer

1 and 3

Answer

2, 3 and 4

Answer

1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 3

Which one of the following was the FIRST Indian statute to provide an explicit statutory definition of a 'gig worker' and a 'platform worker'?

Accepted Answer

The Code on Social Security, 2020

Answer

The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

Answer

The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act, 2008

Answer

The Code on Wages, 2019

Question 4

Under the Code on Social Security, 2020, a 'platform worker' is best defined as a person who:

Accepted Answer

Is outside the traditional employer-employee relationship and accesses organisations or individuals through an online platform to provide services for payment

Answer

Is engaged on a written employment contract by a factory registered under the OSH Code

Answer

Works in the organised sector but is paid on a piece-rate rather than time-rate basis

Answer

Is a home-based worker producing goods for an employer without any use of digital platforms

Question 5

On the e-Shram portal, the Universal Account Number (UAN) is best described as:

Accepted Answer

A number issued to a registered unorganised worker on a self-declaration basis for entry in the National Database of Unorganised Workers

Answer

A permanent tax identification number issued by the Income Tax Department to gig workers

Answer

A provident-fund account number allotted by the EPFO to organised-sector employees

Answer

A one-time voucher entitling the holder to a fixed cash transfer under a state welfare board

Question 6

The e-Shram portal, launched by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, is described as the world's largest database of which one of the following categories of workers?

Accepted Answer

Unorganised workers

Answer

Organised formal-sector workers

Answer

Overseas Indian migrant workers

Answer

Central Government employees

Question 7

The Aggregator module launched in December 2024 for registering platform aggregators and their workers forms part of which one of the following — the flagship portal described as the world's largest database of unorganised workers?

Accepted Answer

e-Shram

Answer

National Career Service (NCS)

Answer

UMANG

Answer

Shram Suvidha

Question 8

The Union Budget 2025-26 extended AB-PMJAY health cover and identity cards to gig workers. As per the projection cited by the Government, India's gig workforce is expected to reach approximately how many workers by 2029-30?

Accepted Answer

2.35 crore

Answer

1 crore

Answer

5 crore

Answer

90 lakh

Question 9

Consider the following, with reference to the four Labour Codes into which 29 central labour laws have been consolidated:
1. Code on Wages, 2019
2. Industrial Relations Code, 2020
3. Factories Code, 2020
4. Code on Social Security, 2020
Which of the above is/are correctly identified as one of the four Labour Codes?

Accepted Answer

1, 2 and 4

Answer

1 and 3

Answer

2, 3 and 4

Answer

1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 10

Among the laws subsumed into the Code on Wages, 2019, which one dealt SPECIFICALLY with prohibiting wage discrimination on the basis of gender (equal pay for equal work)?

Accepted Answer

The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

Answer

The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

Answer

The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965

Answer

The Payment of Wages Act, 1936

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — “Empowering women is central to building a Viksit Bharat”: Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya

Q1. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Annual Report 2025, which one of the following categories recorded the HIGHEST Labour Force Participation Rate (usual status)?

Q3. Which one of the following was the FIRST Indian statute to provide an explicit statutory definition of a 'gig worker' and a 'platform worker'?

Q4. Under the Code on Social Security, 2020, a 'platform worker' is best defined as a person who:

Q5. On the e-Shram portal, the Universal Account Number (UAN) is best described as:

Q6. The e-Shram portal, launched by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, is described as the world's largest database of which one of the following categories of workers?

Q7. The Aggregator module launched in December 2024 for registering platform aggregators and their workers forms part of which one of the following — the flagship portal described as the world's largest database of unorganised workers?

Q8. The Union Budget 2025-26 extended AB-PMJAY health cover and identity cards to gig workers. As per the projection cited by the Government, India's gig workforce is expected to reach approximately how many workers by 2029-30?

Q10. Among the laws subsumed into the Code on Wages, 2019, which one dealt SPECIFICALLY with prohibiting wage discrimination on the basis of gender (equal pay for equal work)?