MODEL QUESTIONS FOR IPO EXAM PAPER IV (GK) BOOK AND AUTHOR

BOOK AND AUTHOR

 

1. Who is the author of “The Kalam effect: My years with the president”? 

(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi(c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie                                                                                          
 ANS (a)
2. Who is the author of the book “Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable”?                                                   (a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy(c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth                                                                                             

ANS (c)
3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?                                                                                           (a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d)Kautilya                                                                                       
  ANS (a)
4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of 

(a) The Post Office (b) Gora(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie

ANS (Try Yourself)

 
5. Who is the author of the book ’My other two daughters’?

 (a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy

ANS (b)

 
6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story

 (a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above

ANS (c)

 
7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ “ book was written by 

(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda

ANS (d)
8. Find out the odd one

 (a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character 9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth

ANS (d)
10. ’Sonia, a Biography’ was written by 

(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty

ANS (c)
11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story

 (a) Chamber of secrets(b) The philosopher’s stone(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth

ANS (d)
12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book 

(a) From the Earth to the moon(b) All under Heaven(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream(d) Past and Present

ANS (a)
13. Who is the author of “A Passage to England”? 

(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill

ANS (b)
14. “Does IT matter” is a book written by 

(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr(d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of these

ANS (c)
15. ’Beyond time’ is the book written by 

(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel(e) None of these

ANS (e)
16. The famous book ’Anandmath’ has been authorised by 

(a) Rabindranath Tagore(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya(c) Sarojini Naidu(d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (b)
17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule? 

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

ANS (a)
18. The author of the book ’Waiting for Godot’ is:

 (a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson

ANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma – R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale – Terry Mc Millan
19. “The Vedas contain all the truth”, was interpreted by: 

(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan

ANS (b)
20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?

 ANS – Dara Shikoh

21.In “The Travels of Gulliver”, what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?

ANS – The health of the sun
22.”The man who knew infinity” is the biography of 

(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan

ANS (d)
23.What was the original name of ’Alice in Wonderland’ when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863? 

ANS – Alice’s Adventures Underground
24. The author of the book “Waiting for the Mahatma” is

 (a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar

ANS (a)
25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem ’Arjuna vivaha’ written? 

ANS – King Airlangga
26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, ’Plain Tales From the Hills’?

 ANS – To the wittiest woman in India
27. ’Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’ is R.M Lala’s biography of which Indian?

 ANS – J. R. D. Tata
28. Which of Agatha Christie’s books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title ’Anna the Adventure’? 

ANS – The Man In The Brown Suit
29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time? 

(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking

ANS (d)
30. The book ’Living with Honour’ is written by

 (a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth

ANS (b)

31. The book ’Cricket My Style’ is written by 

(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath

ANS (c)
32. Who wrote the book ’The Book of Indian Birds’

 ANS – Dr. Salim Ali
33. ’Economic History of India’ was written by 

ANS – R. C. Dutt
34.The oldest of the vedic literature is

 (a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda

ANS (c)
35. ’Leelavathi’ the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on 

ANS – Mathematics
36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999) 

ANS – Vikram Seth
37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871

 ANS – Walt Whitman (American Poet)
38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales 

ANS – Geoffrey Chaucer
39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin

 ANS – Leo Tolstoy
40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

ANS – Mark Twain

41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? 

ANS – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors? 

ANS – William Shakespeare
43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal Farm 

ANS – George Orwell
44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

 ANS – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass? 

ANS – Lewis Carroll
46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ? 

ANS – William Shakespeare
47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama

 ANS – Abul Fazl
48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?

 ANS – Mark Twain
49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?

 ANS – William Shakespeare
50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)

 ANS – Sir Isaac
 

51. Who is the author of the book “Jyoti Punj”? 

(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi(c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth

ANS (c)

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WELFARE SCHEMES FOR WOMEN

WELFARE SCHEMES FOR WOMEN

Ministry of Women and Child Development16-August, 2012

        Many welfare schemes for women are implemented by Government of India, State Governments and Union Territory Administrations. The details of major schemes under implementation by Ministry of Women and Child Development for the welfare of women are as under:

 i. RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL CRECHE SCHEME FOR THE CHILDREN OF WORKING MOTHERS (RGNCS) provides day care facilities to the children in the age group 0-6 years from families with monthly income of less than 12000/-. In addition to being a safe space for the children, the crèches provide services such as supplementary nutrition, pre-school education and emergency health care, etc.

ii. CENTRAL SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD: The main women welfare related schemes and programmes being implemented by CSWB are family counselling centres, awareness generation programme and condensed courses of education for women.

iii. NATIONAL MISSION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN (NMEW) is an initiative of the Government of India for empowering women holistically. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme sanctioned in April 2011 and acts as an umbrella Mission with a mandate to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence.

 iv. WORKING WOMEN’S HOSTEL (WWH) Scheme envisages provision of safe and affordable hostel accommodation to working women, single working women, women working at places away from their home-towns and for women being trained for employment.

v. SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME (STEP) for Women was launched as a Central Sector Scheme during 1986-87. It aims at making a significant impact on women by upgrading skills for self and wage employment. The target group includes the marginalized assetless rural women and urban poor.

vi. RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK) with a corpus of Rs.100 crore extends micro-finance services to bring about the socio-economic upliftment of poor women. 

vii. INDIRA GANDHI MATRITVA SAHYOG YOJANA (IGMSY) is a Conditional Cash Transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating (P&L) women introduced in the October 2010 to contribute to better enabling environment by providing cash incentives for improved health and nutrition to pregnant and nursing mothers.

viii. SWADHAR SCHEME: The Ministry of Women and Child Development had been administering Swadhar scheme since 2001 for Women in difficult circumstances. Under the Scheme, temporary accommodation, maintenance and rehabilitative services are provided to women and girls rendered homeless due to family discord, crime, violence, mental stress, social ostracism. Another scheme with similar objectives/target groups namely Short Stay Home (SSH) is being implemented by Central Social Welfare Board.

ix. UJJAWALA is a comprehensive scheme for prevention of trafficking and rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.

This was stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha today.

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Latest list of Empanelled Hospitals under CGHS – Effective from 7th August, 2012

Central Government Health Scheme

The Central Government Health Scheme in India is comprehensive health care to the CGHS Beneficiaries. The Central Govt. Health Scheme is applicable to the following categories of people residing in CGHS covered cities:

• All Central Govt. Servants paid from Civil Estimates (other than those employed in
• Railway Services and those employed under Delhi Administration except members of Delhi Police Force).
• Pensioners drawing pension from Civil Estimates and their family members – (Pensioner residing in non- CGHS areas also may obtain CGHS Card from nearest CGHS covered City)
• Hon’ble Members of Parliament
• Hon’ble Judges of Supreme Court of India
• Ex- Members of Parliament
• Employees & Pensioners of Autonomous Bodies covered under CGHS (Delhi)
• Ex- Governors and Ex-Vice Presidents
• Former Prime Ministers
• Former Judges of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and Hon’ble High Courts
• Freedom Fighters

It provides service through following categories of systems:-

• Allopathic
• Homeopathic
• Indian System of Medicines e.g.
• Ayurveda
• Unani
• Yoga
• Sidha System

The main components of the Scheme are:

• The dispensary services including domiciliary care.
• F. W. & M.C.H. Services
• Specialists consultation facilities both at dispensary, polyclinic and hospital
• level including X-Ray, ECG and Laboratory Examinations.
• Hospitalization.
• Organization for the purchase, storage, distribution and supply of medicines
• and other requirements.
• Health Education to beneficiaries.

The dispensary is the backbone of the Scheme. Instructions on these various matters have been issued from. time to time for the guidance of the specialists and medical Officers. With the rapid and continuous expansion of the Scheme, however, not only situation has changed and problems arisen but also. the rapidly expanding staff have not approved practices, procedures and instructions in regard to their various duties and responsibilities. In the following paragraphs is set out the gist of provisions of the Scheme, various instructions and order issued from time to time to serve as a Compendium for the guidance of the CGHS staff.

Click here to view the ‘Latest list of Empanelled Hospitals under CGHS – Effective from 7th August, 2012’…

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MODEL QUESTIONS FOR IPO EXAM PAPER III - CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 1986

THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 1986

1.         The Consumer protection act 1986 enacted in

            a)         15 Jun 2005                                                  b)         24 Oct 1986

            c)         24 Dec 1986                                                 d)         1 Jan 1986                Ans:c

2.         The Consumer protection act 1986 extends to

a)            The whole India

b)            The whole India except Nagaland tribal area,

c)            The whole India except Nagaland tribal area and Jammu and Kashmir

d)            The whole India except Jammu and Kashmir                                       Ans:d(1)

3.         Appropriate laboratory means a  laboratory or organization

a)            Recognized by Central Government

b)            Recognized by state government

c)            Both the above

d)         None of the above                                                                                       Ans:c(2a)

4.         Complainant means

a)            Consumer

b)            Any voluntary consumer association registered under the companies act 1956.

c)            The central govt or any state govt

d)            One or more consumer where there are numerous consumers having the same interest

e)            All the above                                                                                                 Ans:e(2b)

5.         Complaint means allegation in writing made by a complainant that

            a)         An unfair trade practice or restrictive trade practice has been adapted by any                    traders or service provider

            b)         The goods bought by him or agreed to be bought by him suffer from one or                      more defect

            c)         A traders or the service provider as the case may be has charged for the goods                or for the services mentioned in the complaint a price in excess of the price

            d)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(2c)

6.         The following is not a consumer

            a)         The insurance company                            b)         A licensee to run a phone

            c)         A lottery ticket holder                                   d)         All the above             Ans:d

7.         The central consumer protection council shall consist of the following members

            a)         The minister in charge of consumer affairs in the central govt, who shall be                      its chairman

            b)         Such member of other official or non official members representing such                                     interest as may be prescribed.

            c)         The Chief justice of high court

            d)         Both A&B                                                                                                      Ans:d(4)

8.         The central council shall meet as and when necessary but at least ___ meeting of the council shall be held every year

            a)         One                                                                b)         Two

            c)         Three                                                              d)         Four                            Ans:a(5)

9.         Object of the central council is

a)            The right to be protected against the marketing of goods which are hazardous to life and property

b)            The right to informed about the quality , quantity, potency, purity, standard  and price of goods so as to protect  the consumer against unfair trade practices

c)            The right to be assured, wherever possible access to a variety of goods at competitive prices

d)            The right to heard and to be assured that consumer interests  will receive due consideration appropriate fora

e)            All the above                                                                                                 Ans:e(6)

10.       Members of state consumer protection council should not exceed

            a)         Two                                                                 b)         Five

            c)         Ten                                                                 d)         Three                          Ans:c(7)

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11.       The chairman of the district consumer protection council is

            a)         District magistrate                                        b)         Collector of the District

            c)         MP of the district                                          d)         None of these           Ans:b(8a)

12.       Which one of the following know as Consumer disputes redressal  agency

           

            a)         District forum                                                            b)         State commission

            c)         National commission                                  d)         All the above             Ans:d(9)

13.       President of district forum is

a)            Collector of the district

b)            A person who are qualified as advocate

c)            A person who are qualified to be a district judge,

d)            None of these                                                                                               Ans:c(10)

14.       Mark the correct option relating to district forum

a)            It should have two member , one of whom shall be a woman

b)            Members age shall not be less than 35 years old

c)            Possess a bachelors of degree from recognized university

d)            Ten year knowledge and experience in dealing with problems relating to economics, law, commerce, accountancy, industry& public affairs

e)            All the above                                                                                                 Ans:e(10)

15.       The disqualification of the member is

            a)         Has been convicted and sentenced  to imprisonment for an offence which , in                the opinion of the state govt involves moral turpitude

            b)         Is an undercharged insolvent

            c)         Is of unsound mind

            d)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(10)

16.       Every appointment of district forum shall be made by the state govt on the recommendation  of a selection committee consisting of the following

a)            President of the state commission shall be a chairman

b)            Secretary, law dept of the state shall be a member

c)            Secretary, incharge of dept dealing with consumer affair shall be a another member.

d)            All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(10)

17.       Who will working as president in case absence of the president of state commission

           

            a)         Governor                                                       b)         Chief minister

            c)         A sitting judge of High court                      d)         Chief justice of highcourt

                                                                                                                                                Ans:c(10)

18.       Mark the correct option

            a)         Every member of district forum shall hold office a term of 5 years or up to age                  65 years

            b)         The member of district forum shall eligible for reappointment for another term

            c)         Members of district forum may resign his office in writing addressed to state                     government

            d)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(10)

19.       Jurisdiction of district for is rupees

           

            a)         Exceed twenty lac                                        b)         exceed 50 lac

            c)         Up to twenty lac                                            d)         twenty to fifty lac      Ans:c(11)

20.       The complaint shall ordinarily be decided within

a)            Twenty one days from the date on which the complaint was received

b)            Thirty days from the date on which the complaint was received

c)            Forty five days from the date on which the complaint was received

d)            No time limit                                                                                                  Ans:a(12)

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21.       Where the complaint alleges a defect in the goods which cannot be determined without proper analysis or test of the goods, the sample of goods forwarded to appropriate laboratory for laboratory test.  Such types of case finding report within ______days

           

            a)         30                    b)         40                    c)         45        d)         60                    Ans:c(13)

22.       Every complaint shall be heard as expeditiously as possible and endeavour shall be made to decide the complaint within a period of ____from the date of receipt of notice by opposite party where the complaint does not require analysis or testing of commodities and within____, if it requires analysis or testing of commodities.

            a)         3 Months, 5 months                                    b)         45 days, 90 days

            c)         30 days, 90 days                              d)         None of these                       Ans:a(13)

23.       Provided that the minimum amount of sum so payable shall not be less than ____ of the value of such defective goods sold or services provided, as the case may be to such consumers.

            a)         Rs 25000/-                                         c)         10 %

            c)         5%                                                      d)         None of these                       Ans:c(13)

24.       Any person aggrieved by an order made by the District forum may prefer an appeal such order to the State commission within

            a)         60 days                                              b)         90 days

            c)         1 month                                             d)         Thirty days                             Ans:d(15)

25.       Any person prefer an appeal to state commission shall be deposited amount in prescribed manner

            a)         Fifty percent of that amount                       b)         Twenty five thousand rupees

            c)         Whichever is less of the above A&B        d)         None of these           Ans:c(15)

(Prepared by AB Kantharaja  Kodagu Dn, Karnataka, presently serving in APS (abkantharaja@blogspot.com)  abkantharaja@gmail.com mobile No  08969822340)

Paternity Leave when a child is adopted

As per Office Memorandum No. 13018/1/2009-Estt.(L) dated 22.07.2009 (Click here to download this OM) issued by DOPT, A male Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children, on valid adoption of a child below the age of one year, may be sanctionedPaternity Leave for a period of 15 days within a period of six months from the date of valid adoption.

We also provide here the details of Maternity and Paternity Leave

Maternity Leave:

(1) A female Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children may be granted maternity leave by an authority competent to grant leave for a period of 180 days from the date of its commencement.

(2) During such period, she shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

NOTE:- In the case of a person to whom Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the said Act for the corresponding period.

(3) Maternity leave not exceeding 45 days may also be granted to a female Government servant (irrespective of the number of surviving children) during the entire service of that female Government in case of miscarriage including abortion on production of medical certificate as laid down in Rule 19:

Provided that the maternity leave granted and availed of before the commencement of the CCS (Leave) Amendment Rules, 1995, shall not be taken into account for the purpose of this sub-rule.

(4) (a) Maternity leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(b) Notwithstanding the requirement of production of medical certificate contained in sub-rule (1) of Rule 30 or sub-rule (1) of Rule 31, leave of the kind due and admissible (including commuted leave for a period not exceeding 60 days and leave not due) up to a maximum oftwo years may, if applied for, be granted in continuation of maternity leave granted under sub-rule (1).

(5) Maternity leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

Paternity leave:

(1) A male Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children, may be granted Paternity Leave by an authority competent to grant leave for a period of 15 days, during the confinement of his wife for childbirth, i.e., up to 15 days before, or up to six months from the date of delivery of the child.

(2) During such period of 15 days, he shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(3) The paternity Leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(4) The paternity leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

(5) If Paternity Leave is not availed of within the period specified in sub-rule (1), such leave shall be treated as lapsed.

NOTE:- The Paternity Leave shall not normally be refused under any circumstances.

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