Pandit Panchaxara Gavaigalavar Arts College, Gadag All Questions

Question : Comprehension:
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
India's favourable demographic trends, which have increased the workforce's percentage of the overall population, have paved the way for a significant middle-class expansion. A big population bulge emerging from absolute poverty and set to reach the middle class would generate new dynamics. In India, over 55 percent of the population is predicted to reach the middle class. In reality, because India's demographics are significantly younger than China and the United States, the country's middle class might be the world's largest (in terms of population) by 2025.
It is no exaggeration to argue that future growth will be reliant on the increasing middle class and that the middle class's development will be reliant on growth. Growth has been fuelled by both private consumption and saving, both of which are fuelled by the middle class. India's private consumption accounts for over 60% of the country's GDP, while private consumption growth has contributed to 70% of the country's growth since 2000.
Even though China's middle class is now greater than India's, private spending in the former accounts for a lesser share of growth. In contrast to the United States, where domestic savings are dropping and the country borrows excess funds from outside to invest and expand, India's domestic savings and investments are increasing and funding investments. The emergence of the middle class is anticipated to coincide with a transition away from large-scale informality, which now characterises much of the services and industrial sectors, and toward more formal, wage-earning, and medium-scale firms. Technological advancements will spread at a faster rate. Cities will expand as job possibilities concentrate on them. If there is enough movement across states and from rural to urban regions, the population increase will be more evenly distributed.

Question:
Select the most suitable title for the given passage.

Option 1: Middle Class and Economic Growth

Option 2: Dropping Domestic Savings in the USA

Option 3: Favourable Demographic Trends in India

Option 4: Rise of the Middle Class in India

Question : The percentage of undernourished in different economies are-
 

Option 1: India-38, Pakistan-65, China-8
 

Option 2: India-34, Pakistan-48, China-6
 

Option 3: India-39, Pakistan-45, China-9
 

Option 4: India-40, Pakistan-64, China-7.
 

Question : What was the primary purpose of establishing cantonments in India during the colonial period? 

Option 1: To promote trade  

Option 2: To provide educational facilities  
 

Option 3: To serve as military bases  

Option 4: To develop agricultural land  

Question : Europeans entered India with a mindset of trading only. This streak was initiated by which of the following European nations?

Option 1: French

Option 2: Portuguese

Option 3: British

Option 4: Dutch

Question : Which among the following is a traditional Hindu festival centred on the Goddess Mahakali from Telangana, India?

Option 1: Dehing Patkai

Option 2: Bonalu

Option 3: Ugadi

Option 4: Lohri

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.
National Educational Policy of India 2020 is built on the foundational (1)__________ of Equity, Access, Quality and Affordability. The policy is a (2) __________framework of India's education system from elementary to higher education. It also discusses the (3)____________and scope of vocational training. The objective is to (4)___________India in a vibrant knowledge society and make the country a global knowledge superpower by providing a more (5)_________flexible and multidisciplinary education to its youth.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.

Option 1: figure

Option 2: profile

Option 3: shape

Option 4: outline

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
The Black Drongo also known as the King Crow, is a small Asian bird of the drongo family. Previously, it was seen as a subspecies of the African Fork-tailed Drongo but is now recognised as a full species. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka to southern China and Indonesia. It is a wholly black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm in length feeding on insects, it is commonly found in open agricultural areas and light forest areas throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch or along power or telephone lines the species is famous for its aggressive behaviour towards much larger birds, such as crows, and never hesitates to dive-bomb any birds of prey that invade its territory. Smaller birds often nest in the well-guarded vicinity of a nesting Black Drongo.
The Black Drongo has been introduced to some Pacific islands, where it has thrived and become abundant to the point of threatening and causing the extinction of native and endemic bird species there.
Drongos fly with strong flaps of the wing and are capable of fast manoeuvres that enable them to capture flying insects. With short legs, they sit upright on thorny bushes, bare perches or electricity wires. They may also perch on grazing animals.
The Black Drongo is found predominantly in open country and usually perches and hunts close to the ground. They are mostly aerial predators of insects but also glean from the ground or off vegetation.
They are found as summer visitors to northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan but are mainly resident south from the Indus Valley up to Bangladesh and into India and Sri Lanka.
Question:
The Black Drongos are also likely to migrate in summer to:

Option 1: India

Option 2: Southern China

Option 3: Sri Lanka

Option 4: Northern Pakistan

Question : One of the following is the smallest (area-wise) Lok Sabha consituency in India:

Option 1: Chandni Chowk

Option 2: Delhi sadar

Option 3: Kolkata North-West

Option 4: Mumbai South

Question : When did the Government of India bring the gender sensitivities of the budgetary allocation in its statement for the first time?

Option 1: 2004-05

Option 2: 2007-08

Option 3: 2006-07

Option 4: 2005-06

Question : The General Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2021 removes the provision that required the Central Government to have at least __________ownership in four subsidiaries of General Insurance Company, namely, National Insurance, New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance, and United India Insurance.

Option 1: 75%

Option 2: 49%

Option 3: 51%

Option 4: 80%