2016 GS Paper I, all questions
UPSC Prelims 2016 · GS Paper I
Question 16: Economy and Social Development
‘Rashtriya Garima Abhiyaan’ is a national campaign to
arehabilitate the homeless and destitute persons and provide them with suitable sources of livelihood
brelease the sex workers from their practice and provide them with alternative sources of livelihood
ceradicate the practice of manual scavenging and rehabilitate the manual scavengers
drelease the bonded labourers from their bondage and rehabilitate them
AnswerUPSC’s answer is (c).
Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan is a national campaign to end manual scavenging, the practice of cleaning dry latrines and sewers by hand, and to rehabilitate manual scavengers. The practice is outlawed in India under laws of 1993 and 2013, yet it persists in places. The campaign is about sanitation workers, not the homeless, sex workers or bonded labourers.
Why each option is right or wrong
- (a) Rehabilitating the homeless is not the campaign's aim.
- (b) The campaign does not concern sex workers.
- (c) Right: the campaign aims to end manual scavenging and rehabilitate scavengers.
- (d) Bonded labour has separate laws and campaigns.
Answer: UPSC’s key. Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.
Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2016, General Studies Paper I, Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.