More Questions on Indian Economy
- Q. The apex body for formulating plans and coordinating research work in agriculture and allied fields is
A)Regional Rural Banks
B)State Trading Corporation
C)National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
D)Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Answer: Indian Council of Agricultural Research
- Q. Devaluation of currency will be more beneficial if
A)prices of exports remain constant
B)prices of domestic goods remain constant
C)prices of imports remains constant
D)prices of exports rise proportionately
Answer: prices of exports remain constant
- Q. The share of road transport in total transportation of the country is:
A)70%
B)75%
C)60%
D)80%
Answer: 80%
- Q. In the second nationalization of commercial banks, ___ banks were nationalized.
A)5
B)4
C)6
D)8
Answer: 6
- Q. In India, inflation measured by the
A)Consumers Price Index for urban non-manual workers
B)Consumers Price Index for agricultural workers
C)Wholesale Price Index number
D)National Income Deflation
Answer: Wholesale Price Index number
- Q. National food for Work programme aimed at intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment was launched in:
A)September 2003
B)November 2004
C)October 2004
D)January 2004
Answer: November 2004
- Q. Monopolies and restrictive Trade practices (MRTP) act was passed in:
A)1969
B)1970
C)1971
D)1968
Answer: 1969
- Q. The number of finance commissions set up upto now is:
A)14
B)15
C)13
D)16
Answer: 15
- 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.
- Q. Non Tax revenues can be increased by improving the working of the
A)electricity boards
B)commercial irrigation projects
C)State Road Transport Corporations
D)All of the above
Answer: commercial irrigation projects
- Q. In India Yellow revolution is associated with:
A)production of oil seeds.
B)production of flower
C)production of tea
D)production of paddy
Answer: production of oil seeds.
- Q. Unit Trust of India (UTI) was established in:
A)1904
B)1964
C)1968
D)1970
Answer: 1964
- Q. If all the banks in an economy are nationalized and converted into a monopoly bank, the total deposits
A)will increase
B)will neither increase nor decrease
C)will decrease
D)None of the above
Answer: will neither increase nor decrease
- Q. The share of road transport in total transportation of the country is:
A)70%
B)60%
C)75%
D)80%
Answer: 80%
- Q. Income tax in India was introduced by:
A)James Wilson
B)William Jones
C)Nicholas Kaldor
D)Mahavir Tyagi
Answer: James Wilson
- Q. India’s share in textiles trade of the world is:
A)6%
B)8%
C)4%
D)10%
Answer: 6%
- 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)investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
C)ceiling on land holdings have enabled more people to own land and hence their preference to stay wit
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. Where was first gold refinery established?
A)Shirpur (Maharashtra)
B)Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
C)Bangalore (Karnataka)
D)Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Answer: Shirpur (Maharashtra)
- Q. The main rubber producing state in the country is:
A)Tamil Nadu
B)Karnataka
C)Kerala
D)Hyderabad
Answer: Kerala
- 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
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