Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 16 August 2018

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding NPCI are true ?

1) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is an initiative of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
2) Considering the utility nature of the objects of NPCI, it has been incorporated as a “Not for Profit” Company under the provisions of Section 25 of Companies Act 1956.
3) National Financial Switch (NFS) and Cheque Truncation System (CTS) continues to be the flagship products of NPCI.

A) 1 & 2 only
B) 2 & 3only
C) 1 & 3 only
D) All the above

Q2. Consider the following pairs of festivals & their corresponding states:

1) Brahmotsavam : Andhra Pradesh
2) ChhathPuja : Bihar
3) BohagBihu : Arunachal Pradesh

Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?

A) 1 & 2 only
B) 2 & 3 only
C) 3 only
D) All the above

Q3. India (Union Ministry of Agriculture) has written to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of United Nations (UN) proposing declaration of year 2019.Which of the following regarding millets are true ?

1) They require low or no purchased inputs, thus they are backbone for dry land agriculture.
2) It provides nutritional security and act as shield against nutritional deficiency, especially among children and women.
3) Even though they are nutritionally superior to wheat & rice; they are not adapted to harsh environment of semi-arid tropics.

A) 1 & 2 only
B) 2 & 3 only
C) 1 & 3only
D) All the above

Q4. The Gaganyaan mission unveiled in the country on independence day aims to :

A) To send a manned mission to space for the first time .
B) To send communication satellites to the ISS .
C) To send sattelites to MARS to study its atmosphere.
D) To build its own international space station in the outer space.

Q5. Consider the following statements about food processing in India :

1) The unorganised segment dominates in numbers (about 25,00,000 in 2015-16) of small enterprises and workers, but the organised segment (about 40,000) dominates in terms of value of the output and investment.
2) India, with a population of 1.3 billion has its agricultural sector grow at a rate 4.9% per year, whereas the food processing sector grew at 8%.

Which of the statements are true ?

A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) Both are true
D) None