Pandit Panchaxara Gavaigalavar Arts College, Gadag All Questions

Question : What is the main objective of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India?

Option 1: Enhance healthcare infrastructure in urban areas
  

Option 2: Provide financial assistance for energy-efficient projects
    

Option 3: Reduce poverty and unemployment

Option 4: Improve healthcare services in rural areas

Question : Single-use plastic, which has low utility, has been banned in India with effect from _______.

Option 1: 1st August 2022

Option 2: 31st June 2022

Option 3: 31st August 2022

Option 4: 1st July 2022

Question : In India and elsewhere, Biomass fuels can be obtained from____________.

Option 1: Groundnut shells

Option 2: Sugarcane bagasse

Option 3: Rice husk

Option 4: All options are correct

Question : The Reserve Bank of India raised the minimum capital requirement for setting up an asset reconstruction company (ARC) to Rs.____ crore in October 2022.

Option 1: 350

Option 2: 300

Option 3: 200

Option 4: 250

Question : The Planning Commission in India was replaced by which organization in 2015?

Option 1: NITI Aayog

Option 2: Ministry of Finance

Option 3: Reserve Bank of India

Option 4: Ministry of Planning

Question : Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is regulated by____________.

Option 1: Indian Bank

Option 2: Reserve Bank of India

Option 3: ICICI Bank

Option 4: State Bank of India

Question : There are few words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

An infection is said to be endemic when the rate of occurance becomes static in a particular 1)________________ region, which means that main cause of the disease  — SARS-CoV-2 in this particular case — it is likely to exist but will not lead to large 2)_______________ as witnessed over the last two years.
Although it has been seen that the total number of infections in India is constantly 3)_______________, experts say they cannot provide a fixed timeline as when the disease will become endemic. It will all be dependent on the number of  people who are susceptible to this pathogen, vaccination rates, and also to emergence of new variants that are able to overcome the immune response.
“Endemic means that the virus will still remain in the population and there will be 4)_____________ ups and downs  as and when the favourable condition of the virus will exist. For example, we have seen that the seasonal flu  the number for which goes up in the winters and or especially when the season is changing because of lower immunity in people ,on the other hand we have seen the dengue cases rising after monsoons because of the availability of vectors. Covid-19 also may become seasonal and cause disease in the 5)_______________,” said Dr Pramod Garg, who is currently the director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)-Faridabad.

Choose the correct word to be used in blank 4.

Option 1: publicizing

Option 2: periodic
 

Option 3: salient
 

Option 4: digressed

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The world is undergoing rapid changes in the knowledge landscape. With various dramatic scientific and technological advances, such as the rise of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, many unskilled jobs worldwide may be taken over by machines, while the need for a skilled workforce, particularly involving mathematics, computer science, and data science, in conjunction with multidisciplinary abilities across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, (1)________ increasingly in greater demand. With climate change, increasing pollution, and depleting natural resources, there will be a sizeable shift in how we (2)_______ the world's energy, water, food, and sanitation needs, again resulting in the need for new skilled labour, particularly in biology, chemistry, physics, agriculture, climate science, and social science. The growing (3)________ of epidemics and pandemics will also (4)_______ collaborative research in infectious disease management and development of vaccines, and the resultant social issues heighten the need for multidisciplinary learning. There will be a growing (5)__________ for humanities and art as India moves towards becoming a developed country as well as among the three largest economies in the world.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: call off

Option 2: call in

Option 3: call out

Option 4: call for

Question :  How did the first three general elections contribute to the political landscape of India?  

Option 1: They led to the formation of a multi-party system  

Option 2:  They established the dominance of regional parties  

Option 3:  They solidified the one-party dominance of Congress  

Option 4:  They resulted in a coalition government  

Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spoken in India, which share many characteristics such as grammatical structure and vocabulary.
B. India has had a longer exposure to English than any other country which uses it as a second language, its distinctive words, idioms, grammar, and rhetoric spreading gradually to affect all places, habits and cultures.
C. The historical background of India is never far away from everyday usage of English.
D. Since the early 1600s, the English language has had a toehold on the Indian subcontinent, when the East India Company established settlements in Chennai, Kolkata, and Mumbai, formerly Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay, respectively.

Option 1: ABCD

Option 2: ADCB

Option 3: DBCA

Option 4: DCAB