Q. Who is responsible for establishing and maintaining astound and efficient accounting and financial reporting system in India?

Correct Answer

The Comptroller General of Accounts

More Questions on Indian Economy

  • Q. Paper currency first started in India in
    A)1542
    B)1601
    C)1861
    D)1880
    Answer: 1861
  • Q. Whose name is associated with formulation of planning strategy in Second five Year plan?
    A)Jawahar Lal Nehru
    B)Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
    C)Mahatma Gandhi
    D)B.R. Shenoy
    Answer: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
  • Q. On July 12, 1982, the ARDC was merged into
    A)NABARD
    B)RBI
    C)EXIM Bank
    D)None of the above
    Answer: NABARD
  • 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. Which of the following is not an undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways?
    A)Konkan Railway Corporation Limited
    B)Container Corporation of India Limited
    C)Indian Railways Construction Company Limited
    D)Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi
    Answer: Indian Railways Construction Company Limited
  • 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. Deficit financing implies
    A)replacing new currency with worn out currency
    B)public expenditure in excess of public revenue
    C)printing new currency notes
    D)public revenue in excess of public expenditure
    Answer: public expenditure in excess of public revenue
  • Q. Deficit financing leads to inflation in general, but it can be checked if
    A)only aggregate demand is increased
    B)all the expenditure is denoted national debt payment only
    C)government expenditure leads to increase in the aggregate supply in ratio of aggregate demand
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. In the last one decade, which one among the following sectors has attracted the highest foreign direct investment inflows into India?
    A)Services sector
    B)Food processing
    C)Chemicals other than fertilizers
    D)Telecommunication
    Answer: Telecommunication
  • Q. Devaluation of currency leads to
    A)increase in domestic prices
    B)fall in domestic prices
    C)no impact on domestic prices
    D)erratic fluctuations in domestic prices
    Answer: increase in domestic prices
  • Q. The current price index (base 1960) is nearly 330. This means that
    A)the prices of certain selected items have gone up to 3-3 times
    B)all items cost 3-3 times more than what they did in 1960
    C)weighted means of prices of certain item has increased 3-3 times
    D)gold price has gone up 3-3 times
    Answer: weighted means of prices of certain item has increased 3-3 times
  • 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. Unit Trust of India (UTI) was established in:
    A)1904
    B)1964
    C)1968
    D)1970
    Answer: 1964
  • Q. The Indian state which was the first to release state level Human Development Report in 1995 was:
    A)Maharashtra
    B)Madhya Pradesh
    C)Kerala
    D)Tamil Nadu
    Answer: Madhya Pradesh
  • Q. India’s share in textiles trade of the world is:
    A)6%
    B)4%
    C)8%
    D)10%
    Answer: 6%
  • Q. Subsidies mean
    A)payment made by business enterprises to factors of production
    B)payment by government for purchase of goods and services
    C)payment made by companies to shareholders
    D)payment made by the government to business enterprises, without buying any goods and services
    Answer: payment made by the government to business enterprises, without buying any goods and services
  • Q. Government has merged Annapurna Scheme with:
    A)Ujjwala
    B)IRDP
    C)National Old Age Pension Scheme
    D)None of these
    Answer: National Old Age Pension Scheme
  • Q. When personal direct taxes are subtracted from personal income the obtained value is called:
    A)National Income
    B)Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
    C)Gross National Product (GNP)
    D)Personal Income
    Answer: Gross National Product (GNP)
  • 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. In India, inflation measured by the
    A)Consumers Price Index for urban non-manual workers
    B)Wholesale Price Index number
    C)Consumers Price Index for agricultural workers
    D)National Income Deflation
    Answer: Wholesale Price Index number

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