Previous Year Papers

221. Match List–I with List–II and select your answer from  the codes given below:  List–I                                                                             List–II  A. Swajaldhara Yojana                                              1. Rural connectivity  B. Hariyali Yojana                                                       2. Rural water supply  C. Swarn Jayanti Gram  Swarojgar Yojana            3. Watershed  Management  D. Pradhan Mantri Gram  Sadak Yojana               4. Rural selfemployment  Codes:  A B C D

222. In which Five-Year Plan the main objective was the  eradication of poverty?

223. Kelkar Committee, in its second report, has recommended  to reduce corporate tax to:

224. The Prime Minister Gramodaya Yojana does not include:

225. The New Package for Agriculture announced by the  UPA Government does not provide the following:

226. As per the Union Budget 2005-06, the GDP growth rate  has been stipulated as

227. The National Rural Health Mission was launched on

228. The proposed ‘Janani Suraksha Scheme’ will replace

229. Which of the following statements are true about the  10th Five-Year Plan?  Select the correct answer from the code given below  the statements:  Codes:  1. 8% increase in GDP during the plan period.  2. Poverty ratio to be reduced and brought to 20%  by 2007.  3. Literacy to be increased to 73% by 2007.

230. Which among the following factors are responsible for  sex-ratio in India? Select the correct answer from the  code given below:  1. High maternity death rate  2. High female child death rate  3. Female foeticide  4. Birth of more male children than female children  Code:

231. Select the one which is not the responsibility of Gram  Sabha under the ‘Rural Employment Guarantee Act,  2005’:

232. Hindu rate of growth refers to the rate of growth of

233. As per the recommendations of the Twelfth Finance  Commission, percentage share of states of the shareable  central taxes is

234. In India, national income is estimated by the

235. Bharat Nirman Scheme of the UPA Government does  not include

236. The population of Uttar Pradesh has been rapidly growing  during the last two decades because of

237. Consider the following statements and select the correct  answer using the code given below:  Assertion (A): Educated unemployment increases with  high rate of economic growth.  Reason (R): It happens only when there is lack of  professional education.  Code:

238. Consider the following statements and select the  correct answer from the code given below:  1. India’s population is characterised by a high growth  rate.  2. With the current growth, it is likely to overtake China  in the near future.  3. Out of every six persons of the world, one is an  Indian.  4. About 40% of India’s population is below the poverty  line level.  Code:

239. The slogan of ‘poverty abolition’ was given in which Five  Year Plan?

240. The first measure of India’s National Income was made by