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Questions Related to emerging issues in indian economy

The Internet connections have incresed from 0.01 million in 1995 to ________ in 2011. 

  1. 21 million

  2. 81 million

  3. 35 million

  4. 100 million


Correct Option: A

Total Literacy Campaign(TLC) focusses on ____________.

  1. adult education

  2. female literacy

  3. functional literacy to non-literates in the age group of $15-35$

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D

__________ scheme was made as a single comprehensive scheme to address issues of coverage & quality in secondary Education.

  1. NSIGSE

  2. IEDSS

  3. RMSA

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

In $2012$, ___________ scheme has supported for opening $3,30,000$ new schools, construction of $2.85$ lakhs school building, $16$ lakhs class rooms, supply of text books to children & training $12.5$ lakhs teachers.

  1. PSK

  2. NLM

  3. KGBV

  4. SSA


Correct Option: D

AERA stands for __________.

  1. The Airport Economic Regulatory Authority

  2. The Airport External Research Agency

  3. The Airport Economic Research Agency

  4. Neither (a) nor (b)


Correct Option: A

In order to promote village industrialization, Government of India has set up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization at _____.

  1. Hyderabad

  2. Wardha

  3. Kolkata

  4. Porbandar


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI), earlier named as National Institute for Rural Industrialization (NIRI), is an autonomous institution located at Wardha (Maharashtra). It is inspired by the Gandhian vision of sustainable and self-reliant village economy.

Which of the following was focus area for the second five year plan?

  1. Agriculture

  2. Industrialization

  3. Removing poverty

  4. Self reliant


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The second five year plan was particularly for the development of public sector and "rapid Industrialisation". The plan followed the Mahalanobis model, an economic development model developed by the Indian statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1953.

Which of the following is a basic healthcare unit in India?

  1. Taluk hospitals

  2. Community health centres

  3. Primary health centres

  4. District level hospitals


Correct Option: C

Insurance that is provided to meet medical expenses in case of emergency is called ___________.

  1. Life insurance

  2. Health insurance

  3. Lability insurance

  4. All the above


Correct Option: B