Social Welfare Administration Questions and Answers

Answer: D

All three forces contribute, so the answer is (1), (2) and (3) correct.

The National Disaster Response Force, constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, is made up of battalions drawn from the central armed police forces: the Border Security Force, the Central Reserve Police Force, the Central Industrial Security Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the Sashastra Seema Bal and the Assam Rifles.

Since BSF, ITBP and CRPF all provide battalions, every option leaving one of them out is incomplete.

Answer: C

Both are objectives, so the answer is (1) and (2) correct.

The National Helpline Against Atrocities, toll-free number 14566, was launched in 2021 by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It aims to spread awareness of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, which exist to end discrimination and provide protection (1), and to register complaints and monitor them in real time until they are redressed (2).

The options accepting only one statement, or neither, leave out a stated purpose of the helpline.

Answer: B

Techno-managerial voluntary agencies work on the premise that rural development can be accelerated through modern management techniques and technology.

In the usual classification of voluntary agencies, this type brings professional management, technical skills and appropriate technology to development projects, treating poverty as largely a problem of know-how and organisation.

The other options describe other types. Pure welfare work for society is the charitable, welfare-oriented type. Agencies seeking change in social and economic relationships within the existing political framework are reformist, and those seeking to change the existing productive relations are radical or empowerment-oriented. None of these rests on management and technology.

Answer: C

Statutory status was given to the Minorities Commission in 1993. The National Commission for Minorities Act was passed in 1992 and came into force in 1993, replacing the earlier Minorities Commission, which had been set up in 1978 by a resolution.

1978 is wrong because it is only the year the body was first created, without statutory basis. 1994 and 1990 are wrong because neither is the year the statute took effect.

Answer: B

All four are parts of the classification made by the National Commission on Urbanisation, so the answer is (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), option B.

The commission grouped the urban poverty alleviation programmes by their aim: employment generation, shelter and the physical environment, nutrition and other support for the poor, and the building of the institutional capacity of the agencies that deliver services.

Each of the options A, C and D leaves out one of these four groups, so it is incomplete.

Answer: A

The term 'social justice' is originally based on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, so the answer is A.

The term was brought into use in the nineteenth century by Catholic thinkers who took the scholastic teaching of Aquinas on justice, the common good and the duty of the community towards the poor, and applied it to the conditions of industrial society.

Marx (B), Rawls (C) and Ambedkar (D) all wrote on justice and equality, but they did not originate the term, so none of them is the keyed answer.

Answer: C

The key accepts (i), (iii) and (iv), so the answer is C.

In India the voluntary organisations deal with the government mostly over policies and laws for disadvantaged sections (i), over joint work on programmes, with or without government funding (iii), and, in some cases, over movements of peaceful protest in which they take part (iv).

Economic policies in general (ii) are not the main field of their interaction with the government, so options A and B, which include (ii), are wrong, and option D omits (i).

Answer: A

Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh was the first Chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board, which was set up in 1953 to promote social welfare activities through voluntary organisations. The National Commission for Backward Classes, the National Commission for Minorities and the National Commission for Women are later bodies set up long after her time, and she is not known as their first chairperson. Durgabai Deshmukh was also a member of the Constituent Assembly and the founder of the Andhra Mahila Sabha, and she led the first Central Social Welfare Board from its start.

Answer: D

The B.R.G.F. (Backward Regions Grant Fund) is a scheme to bridge the gap of requirements and the availability of funds for development in backward rural areas (ii), MNREGA is a scheme of assured employment for at least 100 days (iv), Bharat Nirman is a scheme for infrastructure development in six key areas (i), and the R.M.S.A. is matched with a scheme for universalisation of education (iii) in the list as printed. The code is (ii) (iv) (i) (iii). The other codes put MNREGA with something other than the 100 days employment.

Answer: B

Both statements are correct but the reason does not explain the assertion. Social welfare administration does make people aware of the challenges of a society in transition, including the harm done to women and children by misuse of technology.

The reason only defines what social welfare administration is, the sum of institutions, policies and programmes, and so it does not say why it generates awareness. The options calling either statement false are wrong.