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Economic and Social Development - 1

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To widen the tax net under capital gains, capital asset is being redefined so as to include:

(a) sculptures/figurines (b) paintings (c) archaeological collections (d) literary books/scriptures

Which of the above do you not agree with?

  1. Only (a)

  2. Only (b)

  3. Only (c)

  4. Only (d)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Only art objects are being brought within the purview of the capital assets. Literary books do not fall in this category.

Nirmal Gram Puraskar is associated with

  1. elementary education

  2. rural drinking water

  3. enlarging forests

  4. total sanitation campaign


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Option (4) is the correct answer.

Which of the following schemes was intended to tap black money?

  1. UTI bonds

  2. India development bonds

  3. SBI deposit scheme

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (2) is the correct answer.

The highest number of foreign institutional investors registered with SEBI comes from

  1. Germany

  2. USA

  3. Japan

  4. England


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer: USA

Which sector contributes the most to Gross Domestic Savings in India?

  1. Service sector

  2. Government sector

  3. Corporate sector

  4. Household sector


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is the main function of CRISIL?

  1. To evaluate the credit documents of a company

  2. To provide financial assistance to industries

  3. To provide finances for rural areas

  4. To promote exports


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1) is the correct answer. 

The Planning Commission is

  1. an advisory body

  2. a ministry

  3. a government department

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Planning Commission is an institution in the Government of India, which formulates India's Five Year Plans, among other functions.

LIC of India was founded in

  1. 1949

  2. 1950

  3. 1956

  4. 1965


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The company was founded in 1956 when the Parliament of India passed the Life Insurance of India Act that nationalised the private insurance industry in India. Over 245 insurance companies and provident societies were merged to create the state owned Life Insurance Corporation.

Swabhimaan is a scheme for socio-economic development. It aims at

  1. providing banking services to large rural areas without banking services in the country

  2. providing employment to the rural youth, especially the SCs/STs and OBCs

  3. providing better educational opportunities to girls living in rural India in order to bring them at par with boys

  4. eliminating manual scavenging and thereby saving the scavengers from this humiliating task


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Swabhimaan is a campaign of the Government of India which aims to bring banking services to large rural areas without banking services in the country. It was launched on February 10, 2011. This campaign is to be operated by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA). An initiative which seeks better financial inclusion within India will strive for rolling out banking services in 20,000 villages without banking services with a population of 2000 by March 2012 so as to improve participation of rural folks in different plans launched by the government for them.

Which of the following do(es) not come under the tertiary sector?

  1. Banking

  2. Transport

  3. Construction

  4. Community and Personal Services


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

National income includes the contribution of three sectors of the economy:

Primary sector (Agriculture, Forest, Fisheries, Mining)

Secondary sector (Industries - Manufacturing and Construction) Tertiary sector (Trade, Transport, Communications, Banking, Insurance, Real Estate, Community and Personal Services)

Ad valorem is a tax on

  1. value added services

  2. price

  3. industrial output

  4. commercial transactions


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Ad valorem is a tax on price.

Which of the following taxes are levied by the State Government?

  1. Value Added Tax (VAT)
  2. Stamp Duty
  3. Land Revenue
  4. Profession Tax
  1. Only 1 and 3

  2. Only 1, 3 and 4

  3. Only 1, 2 and 3

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

India has a well-developed tax structure with clearly demarcated authority between Central and State Governments and local bodies. Central Government levies taxes on income (except tax on agricultural income, which the State Government can levy), customs duties, central excise and service tax. Value Added Tax (VAT), stamp duty, state excise, land revenue and profession tax are levied by the State Governments.

Unemployment due to change in demand and supply conditions or due to change in market conditions is called

  1. structural unemployment

  2. disguised unemployment

  3. frictional unemployment

  4. open unemployment


Correct Option: C

Very often we hear the terms 'Foreign Direct Investment' and 'Foreign Institutional Investment'. Which of the following statements is/are correct in relation to them?

  1. FDI is an investment that a parent company makes in a foreign country. On the contrary, FII is an investment made by an investor in the market of a foreign nation.
  2. FDI can enter the stock market easily and also withdraw from it easily, but FII cannot enter and exit that easily.
  3. Foreign Direct Investment targets a specific enterprise. The FII provides for increasing capital availability in general.
  1. Only 1 and 2

  2. Only 1

  3. Only 1 and 3

  4. 1, 2 and 3


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Statement 1 is correct: FDI or Foreign Direct Investment is an investment that a parent company makes in a foreign country. On the contrary, FII or Foreign Institutional Investor is an investment made by an investor in the market of a foreign nation. Statement 2 is incorrect: In FII, the companies only need to get registered in the stock exchange to make investments. Foreign Institutional Investment is also known as hot money as the investors have the liberty to sell it and take it back. But in Foreign Direct Investment, this is not possible. In simple words, FII can enter the stock market easily and also withdraw from it easily. Statement 3 is correct: Foreign Direct Investment only targets a specific enterprise. It aims to increase the enterprises capacity or productivity or change its management control. In an FDI, the capital inflow is translated into additional production. The FII investment flows only into the secondary market. It helps in increasing capital availability in general rather than enhancing the capital of a specific enterprise.

Which of the following factors hampered economic growth during the 2nd Five Year Plan?

  1. Rising inflation

  2. Suez crisis

  3. Denudation of forex reserves

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D

The Planning Commission was constituted in

  1. January 1950

  2. March 1950

  3. August 1950

  4. September 1950


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Planning Commission was established on 15th March, 1950.

Which of the following is not the function of the Finance Commission?

  1. The distribution of net proceeds of taxes to be shared between the Centre and the States, and the allocation of the respective share of such proceeds between the States

  2. The principles which should govern the grants-in-aid by the Centre to States out of the Consolidated Fund of India

  3. The measures needed to augment the Consolidated Fund of India to supplement the resources of the Panchayats and the Municipalities in the State on the basis of the recommendations made by the State Finance Commission

  4. Any other matter referred to it by the President in the interest of sound finance


Correct Option: C

Which rural schemes were merged with Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana?

  1. NREP and RLEGP

  2. TRYSEM and MNP

  3. IRDP and TRYSEM

  4. DPAP and IRDP


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1) is the correct answer.

Which of the following states of India do not have any regional rural bank?

  1. Manipur and Tripura

  2. Sikkim and Goa

  3. Nagaland and Manipur

  4. Sikkim and Jammu and Kashmir


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sikkim and Goa do not have any regional rural bank.

Which of the following remedies is/are incorrect for bridging the yawning gap between North India and South India?

(a) Female literacy is abysmally low in BIMARU states. It needs boosting. (b) Massive investment in infrastructure – need of the hour. (c) Knowledge trade between Bimaru and Takk regions. (d) Excess work force to be absorbed by Takk states.

  1. Only (a)

  2. Only (a) and (b)

  3. Only (a) and (c)

  4. Only (d)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Absorption of excess work force generation out of the burgeoning population is an impracticable and abstruse (preposterous) remedy.

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