Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Rise of Popular Movements

Question:

In which year did NFF (National Fishworkers’ Forum) fight its first legal battle with the Union government successfully?

Options:

1988

1991

1998

2002

Correct Answer:

1991

Explanation:

With the coming of policies of economic liberalisation in and around the mid ’eighties, these organisations were compelled to come together on a national level platformthe NFF or National Fishworkers’ Forum. Fish workers from Kerala took the main responsibility of mobilising fellow workers, including women workers from other States. Work of the NFF consolidated when in 1991 it fought its first legal battle with the Union government successfully.