More Questions on Indian Economy
- Q. The total number of national highways in the country is:
A)528
B)228
C)328
D)499
Answer: E
- Q. SEBI which was established in April 1988 stands for:
A)Securities and Exchange Board of India
B)Share and Exchange Board of India
C)Securities and Exchange Bureau of India
D)Security and Economic Board of India
Answer: Securities and Exchange Board of India
- Q. Earn While you Learn scheme has been launched by:
A)Ministry of Youth
B)Both A and B
C)Ministry of Tourism
D)None of these
Answer: Ministry of Tourism
- Q. The central banking functions in India are performed by the I=Central Bank of India II=Reserve Bank of India III=State Bank of India IV=Punjab National Bank
A)II
B)I, II
C)I
D)II, III
Answer: II
- Q. In the second nationalization of commercial banks, ___ banks were nationalized.
A)5
B)6
C)4
D)8
Answer: 6
- Q. In India, the state which has the largest forest cover is:
A)Arunachal Pradesh
B)Madhya Pradesh
C)Chattisgarh
D)Odisha
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Q. Reserve Bank of India was nationalized in the year
A)1945
B)1949
C)1935
D)1969
Answer: 1949
- 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. Navaratna Status is concerned with:
A)Private Sector Companies
B)Public Sector Companies
C)Both A and B
D)None of the above
Answer: Public Sector Companies
- Q. Excess of Total Expenditure over total Receipts is :
A)Surplus Budget
B)Deficit Budget
C)Balanced Budget
D)None of the above
Answer: Deficit Budget
- Q. If the cash reserve ratio is lowered by the RBI, its impact on credit creation will be to
A)decrease it
B)no impact
C)increase it
D)None of the above
Answer: increase it
- Q. Asia’s first Export processing Zone (EPZ) was established in:
A)Cochin
B)Kandla
C)Surat
D)Chennai
Answer: Kandla
- 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. Since the inception of the co-operative movement, rural credits has been
A)rationalized
B)institutionalized
C)cheapened
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Green Banking channel has been launched by:
A)State Bank of India
B)Reserve Bank of India
C)Punjab National Bank
D)Bank of Baroda
Answer: State Bank of India
- 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. The annual yield from which of the following Union Government taxes is the highest?
A)Corporation tax and income tax
B)Custom duties
C)Inheritance tax, wealth tax, interest tax and gift tax
D)Excise duties
Answer: Excise duties
- Q. Our financial system has provided for the transfer of resources from the centre to the states; the important means of resource transfers are
A)grant-in-aids
B)loans
C)tax sharing
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- 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. Meera Seth committee was associated with:
A)sex discrimination at work place
B)female foeticide
C)the development of handloom industry.
D)banking sector
Answer: the development of handloom industry.
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