STI Main 2017- Paper 2

India's economic plans made conscious efforts for

Consider the following statements :

a. Integrated Rural Development Programme aims at raising families above the poverty line by creating sustainable opportunities of self-employment.

b. In Jawahar Gram Smridhi Yojana, preference is being given to SC/ST families below the poverty line and physically challenged persons. 

c. Ganga Kalyan Yojana provides irrigation facilities through ground water sources to small and marginal farmers below the poverty line.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Which of the following is not a feature of democratic socialism? 

Consider the following statements :

a. The usual status indicates the unemployment status of a person during the entire year.

b. The current weekly status indicates the unemployment status of a person one hour durinus indicates the unemployment status of a person dg a week. 

c .The current daily staturing all the seven days in a week.

Which of the statements given above are correct ?

If deprivation score is  __________ percent or greater, the household is considered as multidimensionally poor.

Match the pairs : 

Which of the following connectivity was not considered in PURA Model ?

The Planning Commission of India adopted the policy measures to remove regional disparities as below :

a. Special area development programmes implemented for direct development of backward areas.

b. State Bank of India to provide concessional finance for industrial projects located in backward areas.

c. To promote private investments in backward areas.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following programmes aims to provide employment only to the rural poor?

Select proper options for A and B : 

Answer options :

Which of the following is not a non-conventional source of energy in India ?

Which of the following is a cause of economic crisis in the early 1990s ?

Disinvestment of Public Sector is one of the main elements of Privatisation. The dişinvestment is undertaken to achieve which of the following objectives? 

a. To provide good customer service. 

b.To overcome political interference in managing the public sector industries.

c. To overcome corruption in PSUs.

d. To make effective use of proceeds from disinvestment.

Answer options :

LPG Model has followed the IMF-World Bank prescription of 

The National Highway Development Project (NHDP) deals with building high quality highways and the Pradhan Mantri Bharat Jodo Pariyojana (PMBJP) deals with

Which of the following statements is/are correct about WTO and the domestic subsidies? 

a. WTO bans domestic subsidies granted under Red Box,

b. Amber Box subsidies are those subsidies that are not banned, but against which action can be taken.

c. Agricultural support measures in the Blue Box are prohibited.

Answer options :

According to result of PSEs in 2004-05, PSEs can show much better results in new economic environment, if

The reforms process while accelerating economic development should led to

Which of the following is/are the challenges before the Indian economy? 

a. Mobilisation of resources
b. Developing infrastructure 

c. Facing the WTO challenge

d. Changing role of the state 

Answer options :

Which of the following strategies was not adopted by MNCs to penetrate the Indian economy through FDI ?