General Awareness Practice Series-8

1 . Who announced the Industrial Policy of 1956?
A. Sardar Patel
B. Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Balwant Rai mehta
D. none

2 . What was set up by Government of India in 1988 with objective of developing multi modal logistics support for India’s International and Domestic containerized cargo and trade?
A. Inland Container Depots
B. Container Corporation of India
C. Central warehousing Corporation
d. none



3 . SIDO is ..?
A. Small Industries Development Organisation
B. Sick Industries Development Organisation
C. Small Industries Development Office
D. NONE



4 . Consider the following reasons for low productivity in Indian Agriculture?
A. Uneconomic & Fragmented Holdings
B. Inefficient Labor Force
C. No use of HYV seeds
D. AllAbove



5 . Consider the following works:
A. subscribing to share capital of State Warehousing Corporations
B. Acquire buildings and go downs at suitable places
C. arrange facilities for transport of agriculture produce
D.All above



6 . Out of the following which is the cheapest mode of transport?
A. roadways
B. waterways
C. railways
D. None



7 . Out of the following three, which mode of transport has maximum fixed cost?
A. Railways
B. Airways
C. Roadways
d. ALL


8 . Out of the following modes of transport , which has the highest variable cost?
A. Road Transport
B. Rail Transport
C. Air transport
D. ALL



9 . Which mode of transport has minimum fixed cost ?
A. water Transport
B. Air Transport
C. Road Transport
D. ALL




10 . Pipelines has a mode of transport has …?
A. Highest Fixed Cost and Lowest Running Cost
B. Highest Running Cost and Lowest Fixed Cost
C. Lowest Fixed Cost and Lowest Running Cost
D. All aBOVE



11 . Which among the following will be most efficient for short-hauls of high-bulk high- value goods?
A. Truck
B. Train
C. Ship
D. Flight



12 . Which source makes possible to transport product from source to market directly ?
A. Ship
B. Air
C. Pipeline
D. NONE



13 . Consider the following factors:
A. High Investment in industries
B. expanding market for product
C. dynamic entrepreneurship
D . All Of them



14 . Which among the following is a bulk import of our country?
A. Non-electrical machinery
B. Electric Goods
C. Petroleum
D. NONE



15 . India has a high export earning from Diamonds. Which among the following is most appropriate reason or factor behind it?
A. High Diamonds Stocks
B. Large Production of Industrial Diamonds
C. Availability of experts on cutting and polishing
D. All Of them



16 . In which state in India , the first paper mill was started?
A. West Bengal
B. Bihar
C. Orrisa
D. Tamilnadu


17 . 1853 is a landmark in India’s Transport because of ?
A. First Train
B. First Cargo Plane
C. First Cargo Ship
D. NONE



18 . What is the primary objective of the government to buy food grains directly from the farmers?
A. Prevent Black marketing
B. Trade and earn for country
C. become the sole controller of food grain supply
D. All above



19 . Which among the following gives a justification about the fact that ” Green Revolution has not been green as it made out to be” ?
A. it confined only to wheat
B. it confined to selected areas only
C. it helped only big farmers
D. all above

20 . Where is located the Hindustan Shipyard Limited?
A. Kochi
B. Mumbai
C. Vishakhapatnam