More Questions on Indian Economy
- Q. The Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) came into existence in
A)1986
B)1984
C)1987
D)1989
Answer: 1987
- Q. How many banks were nationalized in 1969?
A)14
B)16
C)15
D)20
Answer: 14
- Q. The chairman of 13th finance Commission was:
A)K C Neogy
B)Vijay L. Kelkar.
C)Nand Kishore Singh
D)Y V Reddy
Answer: Vijay L. Kelkar.
- Q. The annual yield from which of the following Union Government taxes is the highest?
A)Corporation tax and income tax
B)Inheritance tax, wealth tax, interest tax and gift tax
C)Custom duties
D)Excise duties
Answer: Excise duties
- Q. Excess of Total Expenditure over total Receipts is :
A)Surplus Budget
B)Balanced Budget
C)Deficit Budget
D)None of the above
Answer: Deficit Budget
- 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. Which of the following items would not appear in a company’s balance sheet?
A)Total issued capital
B)Revenue from sales of the company's products
C)Value of stocks of raw materials held
D)Cash held at the bank
Answer: Revenue from sales of the company's products
- Q. On which one of the following is the benefits received principle of taxation to achieve optimality bases?
A)Total benefit received
B)Marginal benefit received
C)Average benefit received
D)Ability to pay for the benefit
Answer: Ability to pay for the benefit
- Q. The largest producer of Coffee in the country is:
A)Tamil Nadu
B)Andhra Pradesh
C)Kerala
D)Karnataka
Answer: Karnataka
- Q. Meera Seth committee was associated with:
A)sex discrimination at work place
B)the development of handloom industry.
C)female foeticide
D)banking sector
Answer: the development of handloom industry.
- Q. Revenue of the state governments are raised from the following sources, except
A)expenditure tax
B)entertainment tax
C)agricultural income tax
D)land revenue
Answer: agricultural income tax
- Q. At present, the number of nationalized banks are:
A)17
B)19
C)15
D)12
Answer: 12
- Q. As per the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Economic Outlook 2011-12, Indian economy is expected to expand by:
A)8.0% in 2011-12
B)8.5% in 2011-12
C)8.2% in 2011-12
D)7.8% in 2011-12
Answer: 8.0% in 2011-12
- Q. Redistribution polices geared to reduce economic inequalities include
A)land reforms
B)progressive tax policies
C)rural development policies
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Unit Trust of India (UTI) was bifurcated (into UTI-I and UTI-II) in:
A)the year 2000
B)the year 2005
C)the year 2003
D)the year 2001
Answer: the year 2003
- Q. Income tax in India was introduced by:
A)James Wilson
B)Nicholas Kaldor
C)William Jones
D)Mahavir Tyagi
Answer: James Wilson
- Q. Which of the following is the first Indian private company to sign an accord with Government of Myanmar for oil exploration in two offshore blocks in that country?
A)Essar Oil
B)GAIL
C)Reliance Energy
D)ONGC
Answer: Essar Oil
- Q. If the RBI adopted an expansionist open market operations policy, this means that it will
A)sell securities in the open market
B)buy securities from non-government holders
C)offer commercial banks more credit in the open market
D)openly announce to the market that it intends to expand credit
Answer: offer commercial banks more credit in the open market
- Q. States earn maximum revenue through
A)custom revenue
B)commercial taxes
C)land revenue
D)excise duties on intoxicants
Answer: commercial taxes
- Q. In the second nationalization of commercial banks, ___ banks were nationalized.
A)5
B)6
C)4
D)8
Answer: 6
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