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Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (12 October 2015)

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1. Consider the following statements.

1) Affirmative action and positive discrimination by the government in favour of the socially marginalised people are the same thing.
2) Fundamental rights are fundamental because it is required for the development of the individual & the society & so they are called fundamental rights.

Which of the above statements is / are Correct.

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 & 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

2. Preamble is important, due to these following reasons.

1) Preamble contains the essence of the constitution - its values & goals.
2) It has the basic features of the constitution.
3) If there is any lack of clarity in the constitution, the judiciary turns to the preamble in its interpretation of the relevant provision.
4) It is a microcosm of the constitution.

Which of the above statement is / are Correct.

(a) 1 & 4 only
(b) 1, 2 & 4 only
(c) 1, 3 & 4 only
(d) All of the above

3. Consider the following statements.

1) The Supreme Court in the Berubari case ruled that preamble is a part of the constitution.
2) The Parliamentary system of government is a “Basic Feature” of the Indian Constitution

Which of the above statement is / are Correct.

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 & 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

4. Which of the statement is incorrect.

(a) Social Justice means the whole society should progress without some section falling behind & exploited
(b) Economic Justice means ensuring that growth benefits all by alleviating poverty & generating jobs.
(c) Political Justice means all citizens are given the right to vote & stand for political office
(d) The Indian Constitution only aims to ensure political justice and not social justice.

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Direction : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

In the past, the richest states often grew the fastest and the poor ones slowest. But India’s record GDP growth of 8.49% per year in the five-year period 2004- 09 is a case of improved productivity and growth in customarily poor states trickling up and aggregating into rapid growth at the national level. Nobody should call this a success of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down assumes that fast growth can be had simply by changing a few policies that benefit the rich, after which some benefits trickle down to the poor. In fact, miracle growth is globally rare precisely because it is so difficult for countries to improve the productivity of a substantial proportion of the population. Only when productivity improvement is widespread is there enough productivity improvement from all regions and people to add up to fast growth. In other words, fast growth does not trickle down, it trickles up. Once a country grows fast, government revenues will boom, and can be used to accelerate spending in social sectors and welfare. Miracle growth and record revenues enabled the central government to finance socialwelfare schemes, farmloanwaivers and enormous oil subsidies. This can be called the trickling down of part of the revenue bonanza into welfare and workfare. But neither welfare nor workfare could have caused the sharp acceleration of economic growth. The growth bonanza itself was sparked by state-level political and policy changes that accelerated local growth,which then trickled up to the national level.

1. What is the author’s objective in writing this passage?

(a) Advocating greater autonomy for the richest states in India
(b) Urging the government to invest in social development to facilitate economic growth
(c) Criticising traditional economic principles on which the Indian economy is based
(d) Encouraging larger states to disburse more wealth at the grass root level