industries manufacturing & service sectors section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

MCA21 is an e-Governance initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA), Government of India that enables easy and secure access of the MCA services to the corporate entities, professionals and citizens of India.

The core philosophy is to encompass and facilitate stakeholders for access to databases which would be of immense value for business operations.

Answer: (c)

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections (and not the cylinder, as cylinders were already subsidized before this scheme) to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.

LPG connection under this Scheme shall be in the name of the women belonging to the BPL family.

The scheme aims to safeguard the health of women & children by providing them with a clean cooking fuel – LPG so that they do not have to compromise their health in smoky kitchens or wander in unsafe areas collecting firewood.

Till now there are more than 8 crore beneficiaries.

Answer: (c)

The meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) India-2013 in Nov. 2013 was held in Kochi.

World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Answer: (b)

Prof. Tendulkar’s pioneering contribution was his extensive work on poverty and the estimation of people below the poverty line (BPL).

A committee was formed by the government of India in 2009, with Tendulkar as Chairman to 'report on methodology of estimation of poverty'.

In 2009, this committee came out with a new method to calculate poverty.

Answer: (a)

On 27 January 2005, the Government had decided to constitute a ‘National Investment Fund’ (NIF) into which realization from the sale of minority shareholding of the Government in CPSEs would be channelised.

This fund is managed by professionals and a part of it is used for use in the social sector – like education, health care and employment.

Answer: (d)

The first notable attempt in the steel industry in India was made in 1874 when the Bengal Iron Works (BIW) came into being at Kulti, near Asansol in West Bengal.

The Bhilai Steel Plant, located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh was set up with the help of the USSR in 1955.

SAIL Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), located in Rourkela, Odisha is the first integrated steel plant in the public sector in India, was set up with German collaboration with an installed capacity of 1 million tonnes in the 60s.

Bokaro Steel Plant is located in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India built with Soviet help in 1972.