More Questions on Indian Economy
- Q. In India, which one among the following formulates the fiscal policy?
A)Ministry of Finance
B)Finance Commission
C)Planning Commission
D)The Reserve Bank of India
Answer: Ministry of Finance
- Q. Of the gross tax revenue of the Union Government the indirect taxes account for nearly
A)75 percent
B)65 percent
C)70 per cent
D)60 percent
Answer: 65 percent
- Q. National Rural Health mission was launched in:
A)August 2005
B)April 2005
C)October 2005
D)July 2005
Answer: April 2005
- Q. Indian state with highest road length is:
A)Uttar Pradesh
B)Maharashtra
C)Rajasthan
D)Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Maharashtra
- Q. The Foreign Exchange Management Act(FEMA) was passed in:
A)the year 2005
B)the year 1999
C)the year 2000
D)the year 2002
Answer: the year 1999
- Q. In the world in terms of Railway Network system India ranks:
A)first
B)second
C)fourth
D)third
Answer: fourth
- Q. India changed over to the decimal system of coinage in
A)April 1957
B)April 1995
C)April 1958
D)April 1959
Answer: April 1957
- Q. A proportion of the total deposits and reserves of the commercial banks that is to be kept with the Central Bank (RBI) on liquid form as a measure of control of RBI over the Commercial Banks is known as:
A)Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
B)Bank rate
C)Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
D)Mandatory deposit
Answer: Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
- Q. In India the first bank of limited liability managed by Indian and founded in 1881 was:
A)Hindustan Commercial Bank
B)Punjab National Bank
C)Oudh commercial Bank.
D)Punjab and Sind Bank
Answer: Oudh commercial Bank.
- Q. Government has merged Annapurna Scheme with:
A)Ujjwala
B)National Old Age Pension Scheme
C)IRDP
D)None of these
Answer: National Old Age Pension Scheme
- Q. Resurgent India bonds were issued in US dollar, Pound Sterling and
A)Deutsche Mark
B)Japanese Yen
C)Euro
D)French Franc
Answer: Deutsche Mark
- Q. The total number of national highways in the country is:
A)528
B)228
C)328
D)499
Answer: E
- Q. The Ministry and programme Implementation – as an independent Ministry came into existence on :
A)January 15, 1998
B)September 15, 1999
C)October 15, 1999
D)June 15, 1999
Answer: October 15, 1999
- Q. One of the reasons for India’s occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that
A)productivity in agriculture has been high enough to induce people to stay with agriculture
B)ceiling on land holdings have enabled more people to own land and hence their preference to stay wit
C)investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
D)people are largely unaware of the significance of transition from agriculture to industry for econom
Answer: investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
- Q. Devaluation of currency will be more beneficial if
A)prices of exports remain constant
B)prices of imports remains constant
C)prices of domestic goods remain constant
D)prices of exports rise proportionately
Answer: prices of exports remain constant
- Q. Excise duty is a tax levied on the
A)export of goods
B)production of goods
C)import of goods
D)sale of goods
Answer: production of goods
- Q. During which five Year plan was phase of heavy industrialization initiated?
A)First five year plan
B)Second five year plan.
C)Third five year plan
D)Fourth five year plan
Answer: Second five year plan.
- Q. Which of the following is not an undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways?
A)Konkan Railway Corporation Limited
B)Indian Railways Construction Company Limited
C)Container Corporation of India Limited
D)Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi
Answer: Indian Railways Construction Company Limited
- Q. If an economy is equilibrium at the point where plans to save and to invest are equal, then government expenditure must be
A)equal to government income
B)larger than government income
C)zero
D)negative
Answer: equal to government income
- Q. The Money Order system in India was introduced in the year :
A)1880
B)1999
C)1882
D)1904
Answer: 1880
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