Tag: cottage and small scale industries

Questions Related to cottage and small scale industries

Which of the following sectors starved of investment during the British rule?

  1. Mining sector

  2. Jute sector

  3. Agricultural sector

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Which of the following was not a reason for dismal agricultural productivity during the British rule?

  1. Low levels of technology

  2. Poor irrigation facilities

  3. Negligent use of fertilizers

  4. Educated farmers


Correct Option: D

After passing legislation, the rent charged from tenants was fixed between  _______.

  1. 25 to 60%

  2. 25 to 50%

  3. 35 to 60%

  4. 35 to 50%


Correct Option: B

It is uncommon in a zamindari system _______________.

  1. for land to belong to the tiller

  2. for land not to belong to the tiller

  3. that all the cultivated land to belong to zamindar and uncultivated to the tiller

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A

Ceilings on land holdings were fixed as under ________.

  1. 18 acres of wetland & 54 acres of unirrigated land

  2. 18 acres of unirrigated & 54 acres of wetland

  3. 18 acres of both unirrigated & wetland

  4. 54 acres of both unirrigated & wetland


Correct Option: A

Around ______ percent of population of the country was engaged in agriculture sector at the time of independence.

  1. 40

  2. 50

  3. 60

  4. 72


Correct Option: D

Value Added Method involves _______.

  1. identifying the producing enterprise and classify them into industrial sectors according to their activities

  2. estimating net value added by each producing enterprise as well as each industrial sector and adding up the net value added by all the sectors

  3. both A and B

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: C