12th Five Year Plan - GS questions based on daily current affairs

1)   Which of the following statement / s is / are correct as per aims of the 12th Plan?

1. Achieve near-universal enrolment in secondary education, with the GER exceeding 90 per cent by 2017.

2. Reduce Dropout rate to less than 25 per cent by 2017.

3. Raise the overall literacy rate to over 80 per cent.

4. Reduce the gender gap in literacy to less than 10 per cent.


a. Only 1, 2 and 3
b. Only 2 and 3
c. Only 1 and 4
d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 1, 2, 3 and 4

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   The approach to develop tourism in the 12th plan is

a. Pro-poor Tourism
b. Heritage tourism
c. Wellness tourism
d. Eco-Tourism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pro-poor Tourism

Explanation:
For enabling tourism to realize its potential, the plan emphasizes the need to adopt a ‘pro-poor tourism’ approach aimed at increasing the net benefits to the poor from tourism and ensure that tourism growth contributes to poverty reduction. ‘Pro-poor Tourism’ is essentially about redistribution of resources and opportunities and not just the creation of a new tourism product.


3)   Which of the following statement / s is / are correct as per aims of the 12th Plan?

1. Reducing head count poverty by 10%.

2. Generate 10 million new work opportunities in the non-farm sector and provide skill certification to equivalent numbers during the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

3. Provide access to banking services to all Indian households by the end of plan period.

4. Major subsidies and welfare related beneficiary payments to be shifted to direct cash transfer using the Aadhar platform with linked bank accounts by the end of the plan period.


a. Only 1 and 3
b. Only 1 and 2
c. Only 1 and 4
d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Only 1 and 4

Explanation:
It aims to generate 50 million job opportunities. And aims to provide access to banking services to 90% Indian households by the end of plan period.


4)   The 12th Five year plan aims at

a. Greening 5 million ha under Green India Mission.
b. Integrated Ecotourism District Plans covering 10 per cent of all potential Protected Areas (PAs) by 2017.
c. Cleaning all the critically polluted rivers by 2020 and 80% by 2017.
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Which of the following statement / s is / are correct as per aims of the 12th Plan?

1. We must strive to bring the IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) down to 28 by the end of the Twelfth Plan.

2. We must strive to bring MMR (Maternal mortality rate) down to 100 by the end of the Plan.


a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both 1 and 2
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
12th Plan aims to bring the IMR down to 25 by the end of the plan period. Reducing IMR to 28 was the target of 11th Plan.