Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Mention any two steps taken by the Government of India to achieve the goal of a Welfare State.
Advertisements
Solution
The government of India provided 27 percent reservation in Central Government posts for persons belonging to the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (also referred to as Other Backward Classes or OBCs). Under Reservation in Admissions Act, 2007, OBCs are entitled to 27 percent reservation in Central Educational Institutions also.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005), Named after Mahatma Gandhi, required to provide 100 days of employment in a year to each rural household in the country. This scheme now covers all the 644 rural districts of the country. On average nearly five crore households were provided employment each year since 2008. In 2015 the daily wages varied from a minimum of 153 in Meghalaya to 236 in Haryana.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
What is the significance of Fundamental Rights in view of the fact that India is a democratic country?
What is meant by ‘Preventive Detention’?
What is meant by ‘Directive Principles of State Policy’?
OR
What is the basic purpose of the Directives Principles of State Policy?
Mention two Directive Principles based on Gandhi’s ideals.
The Fundamental Rights fall into six main categories. List them all.
Why did the Constitution abolish the old system of conferring ‘Titles’?
What is meant by the term ‘Writ'?
Mention two Fundamental Duties inserted by the Forty-Second Amendment Act, 1976.
With reference to the inclusion of the Right to Freedom in the Indian Constitution state the following.
What do these freedoms imply?
There are differences of opinion regarding the significance of both the Directive Principles and the Fundamental Rights. In this context explain the following:
What are the chief differences between the two?
