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SPECIAL GK INPUTS
 
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Dear Students,
The section of General Awareness in IRMA and MANAGE primarily focuses onsocial sector. Past years trend highlights some specific areas such as
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Data/Pattern of Agriculture sector
(The Hindu Survey on Indian Agriculture 2008 should prove very useful)
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The various NGOs and Social movements: their leaders, area of activity etc.
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Social problems of India
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Human development indicators, data etc.
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WTO, its implication for rural sectors
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Mishaps like accident due to fire, contaminated water, liquor etc.
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The Govt. schemes for social sector viz poverty alleviation, literacy,employment, healthcare etc.
(Read through the social sector section in Economic Survey and Budget 2008-09)
To cover these topics browse Govt. of India Websites/Publications. The PublicInformation Bureau of Govt. publishes India 2009, which will prove a helpful reading.Website of the Planning Commissions and documents too have comprehensiveanalysis of social sectors. Magazine 'YOJNA' too would have useful and relevantmaterial for this exam.We have provided some of the questions that have been asked in IRMA over thepast few years. These questions have been based on the students' memory. Alsoto help you judge your competency in General Knowledge, a set of practicequestions with answers has been provided towards the end.
If you have any queries, please write to us at pthq@PTeducation.com
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DIRECTIONS: 
For the following questions, four options are given.Choose the correct option.
 1. The agreement reached by all nations at the G8 summit heldin July -09 was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by .....percent by the year 2020(1) 40 percent (2) 30 percent(3) 50 percent (4) 20 percent.(5) 35 percent2. Most of the rainfall during the South West Monsoon periodoccurs within ..... hours(1) 100 (2) 120(3) 80 (4) 90(5) 1403. In the union budget for 2009-10, an additional Rs.1000 crorehas been provided for(1) Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme(2) Rice intensification system(3) Promotion of high value crops(4) Promotion of SHGs(5) Grain storage4. The adverse impact of climate change on small and marginalfarmers can be reduced considerably by(1) Promoting a small farmers' SHG movement to supportcentralized services for enhancing small farmproductivity and profitability.(2) Teaching them management techniques to market theirproducts efficiently(3) Teaching them Water and climate management(4) Making available group insurance and group credit.(5) Improving post harvest technology.5. Every year we have to export rice and wheat in spite of millions going hungry because of (1) Absence of proper storage system(2) Exports of rice and wheat give huge profits(3) Absence of effective distribution channels(4) Inefficient marketing techniques(5) Poor transportation facilities.6. SRI (system of rice intensification) evaluation in Indiastarted in 2000 at(1) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University(2) National Institute of Agriculture ExtensionManagement(3) Institute of Rural Management, Anand(4) Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur(5) Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai7. The SRI system is being replicated by WWF and ICRISAT forthe thirsty .....(1) Sugarcane crop (2) Sorghum crop(3) Groundnut crop (4) Millets(5) Pulses8. The critical aspect of crops is not the total rainfall duringthe monsoon but(1) The periodicity and intensity of rainfall during theperiod.(2) The water levels in reservoirs(3) The early major rainfall(4) The rain spells(5) None of these
 
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9. The crying need of the Indian agriculture sector today is to(1) Promote policy and approaches to help farmers toadapt to climate change and uncertainties and producemore with less.(2) Make contingency plans and approaches to deal withchange in rainfall pattern(3) Allocate more funds to deal with drought like situations(4) Take measures to treat water on an annual cycle basisand store and distribute the water resources on anannual cycle.(5) Focus on dry land agriculture10. The ICRISAT holds the global responsibility for improvinglivelihoods of the poor in the semi arid tropics. The full formof ICRISAT is(1) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi - Arid Tropics(2) Intergovernmental Crops Research Institute for thesemi - arid tropics(3) International Climate Research Institute for the semi-arid tropics(4) Intergovernmental climate research institute for thesemi-arid tropics(5) Institute of crops research and irrigation for the semi- arid tropics11. According to the IPCC, satellite data shows that the drytropics, where rainfed agriculture provides 60 percent of the world's food and some of the world's poorest live, willbe the most vulnerable to climate change. The full form of IPCC is(1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(2) International panel on Climate Change(3) Intergovernmental Plan for climate change(4) International Plan for climate change(5) International Program for climate change12. Which one of the following is correct statement for market(1) Potential buyers and sellers of the product.(2) An organization which provides facilities for exchangeof commodities(3) A place where commodities are bought and sold.(4) All of these13. A detrimental effect of the green revolution is...(1) Neglect of low input agricultural practices.(2) More emphasis on hybrid varieties and thus destroyingthe local seed varieties(3) Indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilizers thuspushing up the cost of farming.(4) Destroying the local seed varieties(5) Eliminating the native animal breeds14. Unlike organic inputs, synthetic fertilizers are made from(1) Petroleum based derivatives(2) Organic residues(3) Composed harvest residues(4) Animal manure(5) Natural gas15. Organic farming reduces CO2 emissions by .....(1) Storing atmospheric concentrations of this gas in thesoil(2) Using less fossil fuel based inputs(3) Eliminating use of synthetic fertilizers(4) Boosting soil fertility and humus content of the soil(5) None of these16. According to the IPCC, water flow in the Ganges could dropby ..... affecting more than 400 million people who dependon it for drinking water.(1) Two third (2) One fourth(3) One third (4) Half (5) Two fifth17. Agriculture sector in India contributes ..... percent of thetotal green house gases.(1) 28 (2) 30(3) 32 (4) 25(5) 26
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