Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :List IList II(a) Social Justice(1) Government programmes(b) Social Change(2) Equity(c) Social Welfare(3) Moulding public opinion(d) Social Awakening(4) Mass mobilisation programmes

The correct code is (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4).(a) Social justice is about equity: fair treatment and a fair share for disadvantaged groups.(b) Social change in a democracy comes about through moulding public opinion, changing the attitudes that sustain old practices.(c) Social welfare is delivered through government programmes for the weaker sections.(d) Social awakening is produced by mass mobilisation programmes such as campaigns and movements.Code (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(3) keeps justice and welfare right but swaps the other two, giving mass mobilisation to change and opinion-building to awakening. The remaining two codes move equity away from social justice, its clearest partner, so they are wrong.

Social Welfare Administration Questions and Answers

Q: “The social welfare policies lack an integrated approach and direction.” Who commented ?

The answer is Renuka Ray Committee, 1958, the official key. I could not trace the quotation itself.The Renuka Ray committee of 1958 was the Study Team on Social Welfare and Welfare of Backward Classes, set up under the Committee on Plan Projects. Its report examined the social welfare programmes of the Plan and is the standard source cited for the finding that welfare subjects were spread over many ministries and bodies with no integrated policy.The other three options are not known as general reviews of social welfare policy: the Committee on Child Care (1962) dealt with children, and the National Expert Commission on Women (1987) with women's issues. A 1964 article in the Indian Journal of Public Administration makes the same point about the lack of an integrated approach, which fits the first option. The key is kept on that basis.

Q: Kaka Kalelkar Commission was appointed by the Government of India to determine the criteria for identification of :

The Commission was appointed to identify socially and educationally backward classes.The First Backward Classes Commission was appointed in January 1953 under Article 340, with Kaka Kalelkar as chairman. Its task was to determine the criteria for treating any sections of the people as socially and educationally backward classes and to prepare lists of them. It reported in 1955, listing more than two thousand castes, but its report was not accepted by the government.Identifying people below the poverty line is a planning exercise based on income or consumption. Economically backward upper castes were the subject of the much later reservation for economically weaker sections. 'Communities' is not the term of Article 340 or of the Commission's mandate, which speaks of classes.

Q: According to whom “social change is automatically determined by economic factors” ?

The answer given in the key is Sumner and Keller. I could not confirm it, and a standard textbook reading points elsewhere.Economic determinism is usually credited to Karl Marx, for whom the economic base shapes the social, political and intellectual structure of society. William Graham Sumner and Albert Keller, in The Science of Society, give great weight to material conditions and the slow growth of folkways and mores, and some Indian sociology texts put them with theories that make economic factors the driver of change.MacIver stressed that social change has many causes, and no search turned up a source for the quotation in any of the four names. The official key is kept because it cannot be proved wrong, but a reader should know that option A, Marx, is the more common answer to this wording.

Q: Reservation for citizens falling in backward classes has been permitted under the Article :

Reservation for backward classes is permitted under Article 16(4).Article 16 guarantees equality of opportunity in public employment. Clause (4) makes an exception: it allows the State to make provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens which, in its opinion, is not adequately represented in the services. This is the basis of job reservation for backward classes.Article 13(1) makes pre-Constitution laws void to the extent they conflict with fundamental rights. Article 19(2) allows reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech. Article 338 provides for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. None of them permits reservation.

Q: The major objectives of tribal development do not include :

Tribal development does not include elimination of untouchability.Untouchability is a practice of the caste system directed at Scheduled Castes, and its abolition under Article 17 belongs to the programme for their welfare. Scheduled Tribes, by contrast, generally lived outside the caste order, so untouchability is not among the objectives of tribal development.The other three are core objectives. Ending exploitation by moneylenders, traders and land-grabbers has been central since the Fifth Schedule and the tribal sub-plan. Infrastructure development (roads, schools, health centres, irrigation) addresses the remoteness of tribal areas. Human resource development, through education, health and skills, builds the capacities of tribal people themselves.

Q: ‘In the happiness of his subjects lies his happiness, in their welfare his welfare’ who stated ?

The words are Kautilya's.In the Arthashastra, in the chapter on the duties of the king, Kautilya writes that in the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness, and in their welfare his welfare; what pleases the king himself is not good, but what pleases his subjects is. The passage is the classic statement of the welfare ideal of the ancient Indian state.Aryabhata was a mathematician and astronomer. Vivekananda was a religious reformer of the nineteenth century, and E. V. Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar) led the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in the twentieth. None of them wrote a treatise on the duties of kings.

11.

“The social welfare policies lack an integrated approach and direction.” Who commented ?

A.Renuka Ray Committee, 1958
B.Committee on Child Care, 1962
C.Ranade Commission, 1967
D.National Expert Commission on Women, 1987

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The answer is Renuka Ray Committee, 1958, the official key. I could not trace the quotation itself.

The Renuka Ray committee of 1958 was the Study Team on Social Welfare and Welfare of Backward Classes, set up under the Committee on Plan Projects. Its report examined the social welfare programmes of the Plan and is the standard source cited for the finding that welfare subjects were spread over many ministries and bodies with no integrated policy.

The other three options are not known as general reviews of social welfare policy: the Committee on Child Care (1962) dealt with children, and the National Expert Commission on Women (1987) with women's issues. A 1964 article in the Indian Journal of Public Administration makes the same point about the lack of an integrated approach, which fits the first option. The key is kept on that basis.

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12.

Kaka Kalelkar Commission was appointed by the Government of India to determine the criteria for identification of :

A.Population below the poverty line
B.Socially and educationally backward classes
C.Economically backward upper castes
D.Socially and educationally backward communities

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The Commission was appointed to identify socially and educationally backward classes.

The First Backward Classes Commission was appointed in January 1953 under Article 340, with Kaka Kalelkar as chairman. Its task was to determine the criteria for treating any sections of the people as socially and educationally backward classes and to prepare lists of them. It reported in 1955, listing more than two thousand castes, but its report was not accepted by the government.

Identifying people below the poverty line is a planning exercise based on income or consumption. Economically backward upper castes were the subject of the much later reservation for economically weaker sections. 'Communities' is not the term of Article 340 or of the Commission's mandate, which speaks of classes.

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13.

According to whom “social change is automatically determined by economic factors” ?

A.Karl Marx
B.Sumner and Keller
C.MacIver
D.Jenson

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The answer given in the key is Sumner and Keller. I could not confirm it, and a standard textbook reading points elsewhere.

Economic determinism is usually credited to Karl Marx, for whom the economic base shapes the social, political and intellectual structure of society. William Graham Sumner and Albert Keller, in The Science of Society, give great weight to material conditions and the slow growth of folkways and mores, and some Indian sociology texts put them with theories that make economic factors the driver of change.

MacIver stressed that social change has many causes, and no search turned up a source for the quotation in any of the four names. The official key is kept because it cannot be proved wrong, but a reader should know that option A, Marx, is the more common answer to this wording.

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14.

Assertion (A) and Reason (R) pattern :

Assertion (A) : Affirmative action consists of a set of antidiscrimination measures.
Reason (R) : It provide access to preferred positions in a society for members of excluded or underrepresented groups.

Answer the question using the codes given below :

Codes :

A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B.Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C.(A) is true but (R) is false
D.(A) is false but (R) is true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason explains the Assertion, so the answer is Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Affirmative action is the name given to policies, such as reservation in India or targeted recruitment in the USA, adopted to counter the effects of past and present discrimination. It is a set of antidiscrimination measures, so the Assertion is true.

The Reason says how it does this: by providing members of excluded or underrepresented groups with access to preferred positions in education, employment and public office. That access is the mechanism through which affirmative action counters discrimination, so (R) correctly explains (A). The options declaring either statement false are wrong.

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15.

Reservation for citizens falling in backward classes has been permitted under the Article :

A.13 (1)
B.16 (4)
C.19 (2)
D.338

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

Reservation for backward classes is permitted under Article 16(4).

Article 16 guarantees equality of opportunity in public employment. Clause (4) makes an exception: it allows the State to make provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens which, in its opinion, is not adequately represented in the services. This is the basis of job reservation for backward classes.

Article 13(1) makes pre-Constitution laws void to the extent they conflict with fundamental rights. Article 19(2) allows reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech. Article 338 provides for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. None of them permits reservation.

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16.

The major objectives of tribal development do not include :

A.Elimination of Untouchability
B.Elimination of Exploitation
C.Infrastructure Development
D.Human Resource Development

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

Tribal development does not include elimination of untouchability.

Untouchability is a practice of the caste system directed at Scheduled Castes, and its abolition under Article 17 belongs to the programme for their welfare. Scheduled Tribes, by contrast, generally lived outside the caste order, so untouchability is not among the objectives of tribal development.

The other three are core objectives. Ending exploitation by moneylenders, traders and land-grabbers has been central since the Fifth Schedule and the tribal sub-plan. Infrastructure development (roads, schools, health centres, irrigation) addresses the remoteness of tribal areas. Human resource development, through education, health and skills, builds the capacities of tribal people themselves.

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17.

Assertion (A) and Reason (R) Pattern :

Assertion (A) : The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the Nodal Ministry for overseeing the interests of the scheduled castes.
Reason (R) : It protects them from social injustice.

Answer the following by using the codes given below :

Codes :

A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B.Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C.(A) is true but (R) is false
D.(A) is false but (R) is true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason explains the Assertion, so the answer is Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the nodal ministry of the Government of India for the welfare and development of the Scheduled Castes. It administers the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and runs scholarships and other schemes for them.

The Reason gives the purpose of that role: the Ministry exists to protect the Scheduled Castes from social injustice and to promote their empowerment, as its name says. On the key's reading, this protective function is why it oversees their interests, so (R) explains (A).

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18.

‘In the happiness of his subjects lies his happiness, in their welfare his welfare’ who stated ?

A.Arya Bhatta
B.Kautilya
C.Vivekananda
D.V. Ramaswamy Naiker

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The words are Kautilya's.

In the Arthashastra, in the chapter on the duties of the king, Kautilya writes that in the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness, and in their welfare his welfare; what pleases the king himself is not good, but what pleases his subjects is. The passage is the classic statement of the welfare ideal of the ancient Indian state.

Aryabhata was a mathematician and astronomer. Vivekananda was a religious reformer of the nineteenth century, and E. V. Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar) led the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in the twentieth. None of them wrote a treatise on the duties of kings.

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19.

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List I	List II
(a) Social Justice	(1) Government programmes
(b) Social Change	(2) Equity
(c) Social Welfare	(3) Moulding public opinion
(d) Social Awakening	(4) Mass mobilisation programmes

A.(a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
B.(a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(2), (d)-(4)
C.(a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(3)
D.(a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The correct code is (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4).

(a) Social justice is about equity: fair treatment and a fair share for disadvantaged groups.
(b) Social change in a democracy comes about through moulding public opinion, changing the attitudes that sustain old practices.
(c) Social welfare is delivered through government programmes for the weaker sections.
(d) Social awakening is produced by mass mobilisation programmes such as campaigns and movements.

Code (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(3) keeps justice and welfare right but swaps the other two, giving mass mobilisation to change and opinion-building to awakening. The remaining two codes move equity away from social justice, its clearest partner, so they are wrong.

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20.

Rosemary Sarri lists out the following activities of social welfare administration, which does not include :

A.Translation of social mandates into operational policies and goals
B.Design of organisational structures and processes through which the goals can be achieved
C.Helping those who cannot help themselves
D.Selection and engineering of the necessary technology

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The key is C: 'helping those who cannot help themselves' is not on the list of administrative activities.

Rosemary Sarri's list describes administration as a set of functions: turning social mandates into operating policies and goals (A), designing organisational structures and processes to reach them (B), and choosing and engineering the technology needed (D). Each is a task of managing a service.

'Helping those who cannot help themselves' (C) states the purpose of social welfare itself, not an administrative task, so it is the one that is left out. The list is quoted from a textbook and I could not trace the original wording, so this is the reading that matches the key.

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