Q101 · UPPSC Prelims 2019 · Set A · General Studies

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National Social Assistance Programme does not include the following scheme for Below Poverty Line households:

A National Family Benefit Scheme
B Annapurna
C Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna
D All of the above

Correct answer: (c) Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna

Explanation

  1. A

    National Family Benefit Scheme

    (a) National Family Benefit Scheme. NFBS is a core NSAP component: a lump-sum grant to a BPL household on the death of the primary breadwinner. It is inside the programme, so it cannot be the scheme that NSAP omits.

  2. B

    Annapurna

    (b) Annapurna. Annapurna was added to NSAP to give free grain to eligible senior citizens who remain outside old-age pension. It is an NSAP scheme, not an outsider.

  3. C

    Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna

    (c) Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojna. MKSP sits under the rural-livelihoods/NRLM family and trains women farmers. It is not an NSAP pension or benefit scheme for BPL households. (c) Official key.

  4. D

    All of the above

    (d) All of the above. That would mean NFBS, Annapurna and MKSP are all outside NSAP. NFBS and Annapurna are inside NSAP, so the blanket option fails.

Summary. Official key is (c). NSAP (1995) packages IGNOAPS, IGNWPS, IGNDPS, NFBS and Annapurna for BPL social assistance. MKSP is a women-farmer livelihoods project, not that package.