Question

Which of the following aspects was NOT a primary focus of the Food for Work Programme (FFW)?

1. Eradication of poverty.
2. Creation of public assets in rural areas.
3. Providing wages in the form of subsidized food grains.
4. Promoting large-scale industrialization in rural India.

• A. ii only
• B. iii only
• C. All
• D. iv only

Answer 1

Answer:

D. iv only

• The Food for Work Programme (FFW) was fundamentally aimed at rural development and poverty alleviation.

• Its core components included tackling hunger and poverty, building public infrastructure, and ensuring nutritional security through food-based wages.

• While it operated in rural areas, its focus was on employment generation and asset creation within these regions, not on fostering industrialization, which typically requires different policy frameworks and investments.