Which of the following statements about unemployment and employment in India are correct?
(A) In India, many poor people are forced to accept jobs that nobody else would do.
(B) The Central and State governments generate employment to help low income families live decently.
(C) Employment generation programmes also provide services such as primary health and rural roads.
(D) In India, most poor people stay fully unemployed for years while waiting for a regular job.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (C) only
(A) In India, many poor people are forced to accept jobs that nobody else would do. — Correct. Their desperate economic condition does not let them stay unemployed.
(B) The Central and State governments generate employment to help low income families live decently. — Correct. Governments take steps to generate employment for such families.
(C) Employment generation programmes also provide services such as primary health and rural roads. — Correct. They give jobs and services together.
(D) In India, most poor people stay fully unemployed for years while waiting for a regular job. — Incorrect. People in India cannot remain completely unemployed for very long.
NCERT (2026-27): “6.8 Unemployment … Scholars say that in India, people cannot remain completely unemployed for very long because their desperate economic condition would not allow them to be so. You will rather find them being forced to accept jobs that nobody else would do, unpleasant or even dangerous jobs in unclean, or unhealthy surroundings. The Central and State governments take initiatives and generate employment to facilitate a decent living for low income families through various measures. …” “6.9 Government and Employment Generation … Many programmes that the governments implement, aimed at alleviating poverty, are through employment generation. They are also known as employment generation programmes. All these programmes aim at providing not only employment but also services in areas such as primary health, primary education, rural drinking water, nutrition, assistance for people to buy income and employment generating assets, development of community assets by generating wage employment, construction of houses and sanitation, assistance for constructing houses, laying of rural roads, development of wastelands/ degraded lands.” |