CBSE Questions for Class 10 Economics Development Quiz 3 - MCQExams.com

• CAPART stands for the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology. It was set up in 1986. 
• CAPART helps in assisting and evaluating the rural welfare programs.
• The headquater of CAPART is situated at New Delhi.

• When development in the economy takes place the share of the tertiary sector in National Income increases.

• Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka has the more better performance regarding the human development than India. Sri Lanka is the island of the nation of south India in the Indian ocean.

The development of a country is generally determined by its per capita income, its average literacy level and health status of the people in the country.
Development of the country is a broad term that develops the per capita income, and living standard of the people. Hence, correct answer is option E.

It was set up on 6 August 1952 to strengthen and mobilize the effort and resources of the nation in support of the Five Year Plans made by Planning Commission, to promote common economic policies in all vital spheres, and to ensure the balanced and rapid development of all parts of the country. Prime minister is the ex-officio chairman of the NDC. The secretary of the Planning Commission is also the secretary of the NDC. 

The functions of NDC are: 

(i) to prescribe guidelines for the formulation of the National Plan, including assessment of resources for the Plan; 

(ii) to consider the National Plan as formulated by the Planning Commission;

(iii) to consider important questions of social and economic policy affecting national development

The National Development Council is presided over by the Prime Minister of India and includes all Union Ministers, Chief Ministers of all the States and Administrators of Union Territories and Members of the NITI Aayog. Prime minister is the ex-officio chairman of the NDC. The secretary of the Planning Commission is also the secretary of the NDC. A present the members of the NDC are: Ministers without Portfolio of Executive Yuan, Secretary-General of Executive Yuan, Minister of Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Ministry of National Defense, Minister of Ministry of Education, Minister of Ministry of Finance, Minister of Ministry ...

1:Income can be measured by Gross National Product (GNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Income (GNI), Net National Product (NNP) and Net National Income (NNI).
2:In India the Central Statistical Organization has been formulating national income.

• HDI rank of Sri Lanka is 91 among 169 countries. (HDR - 2010)
  

• Per capita income in India increased from 1950-51 to 2000 from Rs. 255 to Rs. 16,500.
• Per capita income is the total income of the country /state divided by the number of people in that country/state.

1:The Central Statistics Office (CSO), under the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, is responsible for macroeconomic data gathering and statistical record keeping.
2:Its processes involve conducting an annual survey of industries and compilation of various indexes like the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), Consumer Price Index (CPI), etc.
3;The CSO coordinates with various federal and state government agencies and departments to collect and compile the data required to calculate the GDP and other statistics.

According to Human Development Report 2005, India ranked 127 (same rank as in the previous two years) out of 177 countries (Table 15.1). Even though India did not improve her rank, the report applauds its state policies for promoting political, social and religious aspects. Among South Asian countries, India ranks third after Maldives (84) and Sri Lanka (93). Pakistan Nepal and Bangladesh are worse than India.

India has made progress in terms of increasing the education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately three-quarters of the population in the 7–10 age group, by 2011. India's improved education system is often cited as one of the main contributors to its economic development.

• Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992 was aiming at achieving global sustainable development.
• Sustainable development is the economic development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of the future generations.

• The Ministry of Human Resource Development was created in the year 1985.

• The Ministry of Human Resource Development is responsible for development of human resources in India.

Economic development ideally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of communities and policymakers that improve the standard of living and economic health of a specific locality. It involves development of human capital, increasing the literacy ratio, improvements in infrastructure, health, safety and others areas that aim at increasing the general welfare of citizens.

• National income rose by 18% during First Five Year Plan.
• First Five Year Plan actually had a target of national income growth of 12%.
• PCI rose by 12%.
  

The Centrally sponsored Command Area Development (CAD) Programme was launched in 1974-75 with the main objectives of improving the utilisation of created irrigation potential and optimising agricultural production and productivity from irrigated agriculture through a multi-disciplinary team under an Area Development Authority.

World Development Report is a report brought out by the World Bank. The criterion of average income, also known as per-capita income is used for classifying countries. Accordingly, countries are classified as rich countries or low-income countries. 

According to World Development Report 2018-2019, the countries with GNI of 995 dollars per capita and below are called low-income countries.

Thus, the correct answer is B.