UPSC Prelims 2016 · Question 41 of 98
UPSC Prelims 2016 question on Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2016
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectPolity
- TopicGovernance
- DifficultyMedium
- TypeDirect
‘Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan’ is a national campaign to
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Answer: C. eradicate the practice of manual scavenging and rehabilitate the manual scavengers
Verdict
The answer is to eradicate the practice of manual scavenging and rehabilitate the manual scavengers.
Analysis
Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan, the National Campaign for Dignity and Elimination of Manual Scavenging, began in 2001 and worked to liberate women manual scavengers across India and to persuade them to give up this caste based and unconstitutional occupation. Its stated aim extends beyond release to social, economic, political and cultural rehabilitation. The homeless rehabilitation, sex worker rehabilitation and bonded labour options each describe real areas of social intervention but belong to different programmes.
Source
Press Information Bureau material and press reporting on the campaign.
How to crack it
Translate the Hindi in the campaign name, since garima means dignity, and then ask which of the four listed practices is characterised in public discourse specifically as an assault on dignity rather than as poverty or exploitation. Manual scavenging is the one framed that way, because its wrong is caste based degradation. Reading scheme names for their key noun, garima for dignity, swachh for cleanliness, ujjwala for light, is a reliable shortcut across the whole schemes syllabus.