राज्यसेवा मुख्य परीक्षा २०१५ GS-3

A Scheme for the President award of the Certificate of Honour was introduced in the year 1958 to honour the scholars of ______,_____ and _____ languages.

Which one of the Following two statement is correct ?

(a) Vedanta e-Shiksha @ school is a PPP model implemented in coordination with various state governments.

(b) Vedanta e-Shiksha is outside the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Scheme.

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The following programmes are run under:

(a) NPTEL Engg. Media Content
(b) Talk to Teacher

(c) A - View Virtual Classroom
(d) Spoken Tutorial

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Adult Education Programme includes:

(a) Literacy

(b)Basic education

(c) Skill development

(d) Life education

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Which one of the following two statements is incorrect ?

(a) Operation Black Board Scheme was introduced at the instance of Kothari Commission.

(b) 50% students at the 10+ stage should be diverted to vocational education was suggested by National Educational Policy 1986.

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The Ministry of Human Resources Development launched in December, 2002 the ______ which aims to upscale and support ongoing efforts in improving quality of technical education and enchancing existing capacities of the institutions to become dynamic, demand-driven, quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring both at national and international levels.

India has ______ language universities, out of which ______ are Deemed-to-be Universities and ______ are Central Universities.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been making conscious efforts to reach out to the girl learners especially in remote rural areas. What is true of its activities ?:
(a) The setting up of a New School, School of Gender and Development Studies with in the aim of achieving gender justice and equity.

(b) The School designs and develops academic programmes and courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Which one of the following two statements is correct?

(a) The Directorate of Art (DOA) was established in the year 1969 for handling all art institutes and colleges of graduate and post graduate level in Maharashtra.

(b) The First Director was V.N. Adarkar

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Sakshar Bharat is the world's largest literacy programme. What is not correct in this connection ?

(a) The programme aims at making 70 million adults literate by 2017.

(b) Only about 53% of India's population over the age of 15 can read and write Answer options :

Which one of the following two statements is correct ?

(a) The right to children to free and compulsory education act has come into force from 1st April 2011.

(b) As a result of this right every child in the age group of 6-14 will be provided 9 years of elementary education.

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The first engineering college was established in _____ in ______for the training of Civil Engineers at _____ which made use of the large workshops and public buildings there that were erected for ______ canal.

 _____type of schools admit at least 25% students from the disadvantaged and economically weaker groups.

(a) Kendriya Vidyalaya

(b) Navodaya Vidyalaya

(c) Sainik Schools

(d) Unaided schools

(e) English Medium Schools

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Consider the following:

(a) At present there are 28 member countries in the European Union.

(b) Switzerland is a member state of the European Union

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___and___are the biggest and the smallest countries in the EU by surface area respectively 

(a) The Act was passed by the Parliament in August, 2005.

(b) The Act came into effect from 26th October, 2006.

(c) The Act ensures that the first hearing would be held within 10 days and the case would be disposed of within 90 days.

(d) The Act is enforceable in the whole of India.

Which of the above statements are true about the 'Domestic Violence Act - 2005' of India ?

The trend of annual AIDS deaths is showing a steady decline since roll out of the free Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) programme in India in 2004. Which of the following two statements is incorrect in this connection ?

(a) India has the third highest number of estimated people living with HIV in the World.

(b) Since 1999 there has been a shift from HIV/AIDS awareness to behavioural change.

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Which of the following statements is not correct?