Which one of the following statements is correct about the 'backlease' process?
Consider the following statements and select the correct code given below:
The Union government is finalizing a legislation to set up a water regulatory authority in every state for regulating, managing, locating and utilizing the scarce natural resources.
Water as a subject falls in the state government's domain.
Arunanchal Pradesh is the only state that boasts of a water regulator.
Consider the following statements and select the correct code given below:
As per the latest goverffnent data, the use of bio-fertilizers in India is less than 2 per cent of total cultivable area.
Production of bio-fertilizers had a growth rate of 25 per cent in 2014-15
Consider the following statements and select the correct code given below:
There are 18 Seed banks operating in India.
State Farms Corporation of India (SFCI) and
National Seeds Corporation (NSC) directly promote the Seed banks
Select the statement which is no correct about the recently formed think tank, the NITI:
Which of the following does not belong to the 'terms of reference' given to the 14th Finance Commission. Select your answer using the code given below:
The need for insulating the pricing of public utiliry services like drinking water, irrigation, power and public transport from policy fluctuations through slatutory provisions.
The need for making the public sector enterprises competitive and market oriented; listing and disinvestment and relinquishing of non-priority enterprises.
The need to balance management of ecology, environment and climate change consistent with sustainable economic Development.
The impagt of the proposed Goods and Services Tax on the finances of Centre and States and the mechanism for compensation in case of any revenue loss.
Select the correct statement/statements using the code given below:
In the last 3 years, GoI has npt set up any new Public Sector Enteiprise.
GoI now focuses on the social sector and promotes private sector to fill the gap in the industrial sector.
Select the correct statement/statements using the code given below:
Industrial lockouts caused by the skiking contractual labour has increased during the last 3 years, which indicates immediate need oflabour reforms in India pending since long.
Increasing labour unrest in India is emerging as the main determinant in attracting FDI.
Select the correct statement/statements using thecode given below:
1. Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) may beseen as a special case of the reverse repo rate.
2. MSF has an inbuilt mechanism of checking inflarion.
While the GoI announces the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for the different crops in India what does the term 'FAQ' stands for?
Select the odd-man out:
Which of the following PSUs has decided to set up 5 medical colleges in Talcher, Ranchi, Dhanbad and Mahendragarh?
Participatory Notes (P-Notes) were in news recently. Select the correct ones from the given statements, using the code given below:
1. SEBI has classified three possible Categories of P-Notes issuing FIIs in the country.
2. Category-I are the offshore government entities/institutions investing solely on behalf of a country's Cental Bank.
3. Category-II are the regulated entities as Mutual Funds supervised by their regulatory bodies in their countries of origin.
4. Category-III entities neither fall in Category-I or category-II which have been recently asked by the SEBI not to issue P-Notes
Select the correct tenets of the 'three arrows' of the Abenomics recently in news using the code given below:
1. A massive fiscal stimulus activated by quantitative easing targeted at increasing the rate of inflation.
2. Boost to investment in public works and infrastructure to promote jobs and R&D.
3. Structural reforms to boost country's global competitiveness.
4. It follows ideas started by J M Keynes, whose most famous contemporary admirer is the Nobel Economist Paul Krugman.
Which one of the following statement is incorrect about Reverse Mortgage?
NITI Aayog has suggested a new method the 'price deficiency payment'-for farmers which is consistent with India's agricultural obligations to the WTO. Select the statement which is not c6rrect about it:
Select the correct code about the 'support to State Extension Programme (SSEP)':
1. A centrally sponsored Scheme to promote agricultural extension services.
2. It involves NGOs, PRIs, agri-preneurs, corporate sector, etc.
3. It is under Public-Private-Partnership mode
Consider the following statements about the idea of inclusive growth and select the correct ones using the code given below: 1. The idea of inclusive growth' entered into the domain of planning with the 11th Plan. 2. This is not only about economic but 'social' inclusion, too. 3. Including SCs, STs, OBCs, Minorities and Women is the main idea. 4. The 3rd Generations of Economic Reforms runs parallel to the idea of inclusive growth.
Recently, the government allowed formation of a new type of 'firm' (business entiry) in India-LLP. Select the correct statements related to it, using the
code given below:
1. it is a partnership firm.
2. liability of partners does not extend to their personal assets.
3. it can enter into contracts and hold property in its own name.
4. this will enable smaller firms higher access to credit.
Select the correct statement/statements regarding the public sector fedilizer plants of India, using the code given below:
1. Out of the 4 units of the FCIL, two are sick.
2. one unit of the HFCL is sick.
3. Project & Development India Ltd (PDIL) has estimated the asset value of all the public sector fertilizer units above Rs. 2,300 crore.
Consider the following statements related to the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) and select the correct ones, using the code given below:
1. The agreement is part of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
2. This promotes and protects the Indian investors investing abroad.
3. Promoting and protecting foreign investment in India is one of its objectives.
4. The Agreement functions in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund.
A recent Report titled The Bubble is close to Bursting: A Forecast of the Main Economic and Geopolitical Water Issues Likely to Arise in the World during the Next Two Decades has attracted serious aftention worldwide including that of the Government of India. The report has been released by
Select the correct opion/options for the loss making/sick PSUs whose entire stake has been decided to be sold out to strategic partners:
1. Scooters India Ltd.
2. Tyre Corporation of India Ltd.
3. Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd.
Select the correct statement/statements regarding India's trade inuranium using the code given below: 1. India exported uranium to three countries' namely France, Russia and Kazakhstan in the last five years. 2. India did not import any uranium in the last five years.
Select the incorrect statement/statements about the NSEL which was recently in news, using the code given below:
1. This is NSE (National Stock Exchange) promoted commodity 'spot tading' platform.
2. 'NCDEX Spot' and 'R-Next' are the other such platforms.
3. Commodity eichanges in India are regulated by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs under the Forward Contract Rbgulation Act, 1989.
4. 'Spot contracts' have to be completed within 11 days, as per the Act.
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