Rural Development Programmes 5 (History of Rural Development 1)

101. Which one of the ancient dynasties was famous for village administration?

(a) Chola  (b) Chera

(c) Pallava  (d) Pandya

Answer: (a)

102. Who said ‘India lives in her villages’?

(a) Sardar Patel (b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Gandhiji (d) Vinoba Bhave

Answer: (c)

103. Father of Local Self Government in India:

(a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Dufferin

(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Canning

Answer: (a)

104. Who called villages ‘Little republics’?

(a) Dalhousie (b) Lord Rippon

(c) Lord Curzon (d) Charles Metcaf

Answer: (d)

105. Who was the exponent of the Sreeniketan Project?

(a) Gandhiji (b) Tagore

(c) Vinoba Bhave (d) SK Dey

Answer: (b)

106. Sreeniketan Project was launched in:

(a) 1914 (b) 1924

(c) 1934 (d) 1904

Answer: (a)

107. Sreeniketan Project was launched in:

(a) UP (b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Punjab (d) Bengal

Answer: (d)

108. Marthandom Project was launched in the state of:

(a) Kerala (b) Karnataka

(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu

Answer: (d)

109. Who was the exponent of the Marthandom Project?

(a) SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch

(c) FL Brane (d) Tagore

Answer: (b)

110. Marthandom Project was started in:

(a) 1911 (b) 1914

(c) 1921 (d) 1931

Answer: (c)

111. Gurgaon Project was launched in:

(a) UP (b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Punjab (d) West Bengal

Answer: (c)

112. Who was the architect of the Gurgaon Project?

(a) SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch

(c) Gandhiji (d) FL Brane

Answer: (d)

113. Farkha Development Scheme was introduced in:

(a) Madras (b) Bombay

(c) Bengal (d) Punjab

Answer: (a)

114. Farkha Development Scheme was introduced in the year:

(a) 1943 (b) 1946

(c) 1948 (d) 1958

Answer: (b)

115. Ittawa Project was implemented in:

(a) Punjab (b) Madras

(c) Bengal (d) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: (d)

116. The exponent of Ittawa Project:

(a) Albert Mayer (b) Spencer Hatch

(c) SK Dey (d) Gandhiji

Answer: (a)

117. Ittawa Project was launched in the year:

(a) 1948 (b) 1914

(c) 1921 (d) 1946

Answer: (a)

118. Who launched Sevagram Project?

(a) SK Dey (b) Spencer Hatch

(c) Gandhiji (d) FL Brane

Answer: ()

119. Sevagram is now in the state of:

(a) Punjab (b) UP

(c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra

Answer: (d)

120.The father of the Nilokheri Experiment:

(a) Gandhiji (b) Vinoba Bhave

(c) SK Dey (d) Albert Mayer

Answer: (c)

121. The first book on Indian Planning entitled ‘Planned Economy’ for India was the attempt of

(a) P.C.Mahalanobis (b) Dadabhai Navroji

(c) M.Visvesvarayya  (d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer: (c)

122. People’s Plan was envisaged by

(a) J.R.D.Tata (b) M.N.Roy

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer: (b)

123. The first Minister for Community Development in the Central Cabinet

(a) Vallabhbhai Patel (b) Shanmugham Chetty

(c) John Mathai (d) S.K.Dey

Answer: (d)

124. In 1938, the National Planning Committee of Indian National Congress was set up under the chairmanship of

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Subhas Chandra Bose

(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) Pattabhi Seetharamayya

Answer: (a)

125. The father of the idea of ‘Gram Swaraj’:

(a)Vinoba Bhave (b) Gandhiji

(c) Sardar Patel (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (b)
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