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[B] Mizoram
[C] Punjab
[D] Madhya Pradesh
Correct Answer: [C] Punjab
Explanation: Net Sown Area is over 80 per cent of the total area in Punjab and Haryana. It is less than 10 per cent of total areas in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Andaman Nicobar Islands.
[B] Textiles sector
[C] Thermal Power sector
[D] Household sector
Correct Answer: [A] Irrigation sector
Explanation: In general, the irrigation sector remains the main consumer of ground water nearly 90% of total annual ground water draft for all uses.
[B] State list
[C] Residuary list
[D] Concurrent list
Correct Answer: [A] Union list
Explanation: Population Census is a Union Subject in India.
[B] Karnataka
[C] Kerala
[D] Telangana
Correct Answer: [B] Karnataka
Explanation: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra together produce nearly 80% of sunflower.
[B] Bihar
[C] Assam
[D] Meghalaya
Correct Answer: [D] Meghalaya
Explanation: Due to high rain bamboo drip irrigation is used.
6. Which of the following are crops cultivated in Dry land Farming?
1. Ragi
2. Bajra
3. Moong
4. Gram
[B] 2, 3 and 4 only
[C] 1 and 4 only
[D] 1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct Answer: [D] 1, 2, 3 and 4
Explanation: In India, the dryland farming largely confined to the regions having annual rainfall less than 75cm. These regions grow hardy and drought resistant crops such as ragi, bajra, moong, gram etc.
[B] Wheat
[C] Tea
[D] Coffee
Correct Answer: [A] Cotton
Explanation: These are the criterion for Cotton. Apart from them Black Soil is also suitable for cotton.
[B] Eastern Himalayas
[C] Eastern Ghats
[D] Northern parts of Sahyadri
Correct Answer: [A] Southern Hill Complex
[B] Jaiprakash Narayan
[C] M.N. Roy
[D] Sriman Narayan Agarwal
Correct Answer: [C] M.N. Roy
Explanation: In 1945, yet another plan was formulated by the radical humanist leader M.N. Roy, chairman of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee of Indian Trade Union. The plan was based on Marxist socialism and advocated the need of providing the people with the ‘basic necessities of life’. Agricultural and industrial sectors, both were equally highlighted by the plan.
[B] People’s Plan > Sarvodaya Plan > Bombay Plan > Gandhian Plan
[C] Sarvodaya Plan > Bombay Plan > Gandhian Plan > People’s Plan
[D] Gandhian Plan > Sarvodaya Plan > Bombay Plan > People’s Plan
Correct Answer: [A] Bombay Plan > Gandhian Plan > People’s Plan > Sarvodaya Plan
Explanation: Bombay Plan: It was presented by 8 leading industrialists of Bombay, Purshotamdas Thakurdas, J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla, Lala Sri Ram, Kasturbhai Lalbhai, A.D. Shroff, Avdeshir Dalal and John Mathai in 1944.
Gandhian Plan: Sriman Narayan Agarwal formulated ‘Gandhian Plan’ in 1944.
People Plan: In 1945, yet another plan was formulated by the radical humanist leader M.N. Roy, chairman of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee of Indian Trade Union. The plan was based on Marxist socialism and advocated the need of providing the people with the ‘basic necessities of life’. Agricultural and industrial sectors, both were equally highlighted by the plan.
Sarvodaya Plan: After the reports of the NPC were published and the Government was set to go for the five-year Plans, a lone blueprint for the planned development of India was formulated by the famous socialist leader Jaiprakash Narayan – the Sarvodaya Plan published in January 1950.
[B] Rural Credit
[C] Agricultural Prices
[D] Cooperatives
Correct Answer: [B] Rural Credit
Explanation: The idea for the need of a planned development of India became more and more popular by the decade of the 1940s. It was under this popular pressure that the Government of India started taking some planned actions in this direction. In the 1940s, we see several area-specific reports being published: Gadgil Report on Rural Credit; Kheragat Report on Agricultural Development; Krishnamachari Report on Agricultural Price; and Saraiya Report on Cooperatives A series of Reports on Irrigation (ground water, canal, etc.)
[B] 1951
[C] 1952
[D] 1953
Correct Answer: [C] 1952
Explanation: The National Development Council (NDC) was set up in August 1952.
[B] Twenty-Point Programme
[C] Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
[D] All of the above
Correct Answer: [D] All of the above
Explanation: The Plans which are formulated by the Central Government and financed by it for the implementation at the national level are known as Central Plans. Over the years, the Centre has launched three such plans and the Governments have maintained continuity in their implementation. The three central plans are: (1) Five-Year Plans, (2) Twenty-Point Programme, and (3) Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme.
[B] Provision of food grains through food trucks in rural areas
[C] Mobile hospitals for backward areas
[D] None of above
Correct Answer: [A] Self Help Groups will operate road transport service in rural areas
[B] Umbrella Programme for Development of Minorities
[C] National Social Assistance Programme
[D] All of the above
Correct Answer: [D] All of the above
Explanation:Centrally Sponsored Schemes is divided into three parts: core of the core, core and optional. These are divided on the basis of financial involvement of the states. Core of the core schemes are –
1. National Social Assistance Programme
2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme
3. Umbrella Scheme for Development of Scheduled Castes
4. Umbrella Scheme for Development of Scheduled Tribes
5. Umbrella Programme for Development of Minorities
6. Umbrella Scheme for Development of Backward Classes, Differently Abled and other Vulnerable Groups
[B] Hyderabad
[C] Bengaluru
[D] Gurugram
Current Affairs July 2019
Correct Answer: [B] Hyderabad
[B] Sachin Tendulkar
[C] Anil Kumble
[D] Kapil Dev
Current Affairs July 2019
Correct Answer: [B] Sachin Tendulkar
[B] Maharashtra
[C] Haryana
[D] Tamil Nadu
Current Affairs July 2019
Correct Answer: [B] Maharashtra
[B] Gujarat
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] Maharashtra
Current Affairs July 2019
Correct Answer: [C] Tamil Nadu
[B] New Delhi
[C] Kochi
[D] Mumbai
Current Affairs July 2019
Correct Answer: [C] Kochi