General Awareness PYQs

The government's total fertilizer subsidy is likely to touch a record ₹2.15 lakh crore in the current fiscal. The fertilizer subsidy bill was estimated at ₹1.05 lakh crore in the 2022-23 Budget. It stood at ₹1,62,132 crore in 2021-22.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a project to link their respective fast payment systems by July 2022. India‘s home-grown payments system, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), will be linked to Singapore‘s PayNow.

Services exports are likely to touch $1 trillion 3 years before target. An expected rebound in inbound tourism and growing demand for India‘s services in sectors such as medicine, law and even gaming may help the country boost services export revenue to $1 trillion in 2027, three years ahead of estimates.

Germany will provide an additional development aid worth 10 billion Euros to India to support the latter‘s green growth plan till 2030. India‘s 2030 climate action targets include sourcing 50 per cent energy requirement from renewables and installing 500 GW of non-fossil fuel electricity capacity.

BHARAT Bond ETF is an Initiative by Government of India to cater to the borrowing requirements of Pubic Sector by pooling investments from retail, HNI and institutional investors. Edelweiss Asset Management has been given the mandate to manage this BHARAT Bond ETF program. BHARAT Bond Exchange Traded Fund is a low-cost basket of CPSE bonds that follows an index and trades on the stock exchange. The ETF would follow the underlying index which will comprise bonds issued by CPSEs, CPSUs/CPFIs and other Government organizations. ETF and indices will have a specific maturity date. For instance, BHARAT Bond ETF - April 2025 and the underlying index both will mature in April 2025.

Interest rate on employees' provident fund deposits last week was cut to a four-decade low of 8.1 per cent for the 2021-22 financial year, from 8.5 per cent in the previous year. That marked the highest EPF rate at the time since the EPFO‘s inception in 1952. Since then, the EPF rate has only been lower than 8.5% in three years — 1979-80, 1980-81 and 2011-12 — when an 8.25% return was paid on balances.

As per Schedule I of the Company act 2013 Memorandum of association of company limited by shares has six clauses, which are described below:- 1) Name Clause: – Under this clause name of company is stated, as approved by MCA. 2) Registered Office Clause: – The memorandum must mention the state in which registered office of the company is situated. Complete address of the company need not required to mention here. 3) The Object Clause: – This is the most important clause. Company is free to choose any object which is not illegal. This clause is divided in two parts that is a) Main Object and b)The objects which are necessary for furtherance of the object specified in clause 3(a) 4) Liability Clause: – Liability clause states that the liability of the member is limited to the extent of amount unpaid on shares. 5) Capital clause: – Limited company having share capital must state the amount of its share capital and division thereof into shares of fixed denominations in its capital clause. Therefore, Board of director clause is not present in the MOA.

National Coal Miners' Day is celebrated on May 4 every year to highlight the contributions of coal miners in meeting the country's energy demands. Theme 2022: The dependence on coal for energy needs is rising across the planet.

Recently, Neobank startup OPEN , a Financial Technology firm, became the 100^th unicorn in India with the latest funding of $50 million from IIFL along with existing investors. The term 'Unicorns' refers to startups that attain a valuation of more than $1 billion.

National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), formerly Gujarat Forensic Science University (GFSU), is a central university in Gandhinagar,Gujarat. It is solely dedicated to forensic and investigative science. It comes under the ministry of Home Affairs.

The FSB is established as a not–for-profit association under Swiss law and is hosted by the BIS under a five-year renewable service agreement. The FSB's creation came after the G20 Summit in London in April 2009. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the board includes all G20 major economies. The organisation structure of the FSB consists of the Plenary, Steering Committee, Standing Committees, Working Groups, Regional Consultative Groups, Chair and the Secretariat.

Types of Capital Expenditure government are -:

• Loans to States & Union Territories
• Loans to Public Enterprises
• Loans to Foreign Governments
• Acquisition of valuables

RRBs were set up as government-sponsored, regional based rural lending institutions under Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976. They were set up on the basis of recommendations of Narasimhan Working Group. RRBs are jointly owned by Central Government, concerned State Government and Sponsor Banks with the issued capital shared in the proportion of 50%, 15% and 35% respectively. The RRBs are required to provide 75% of their total credit as priority sector lending(PSL).

All figures below are as of March 4, 2022.

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The textile industry in India traditionally, after agriculture, is the only industry that has generated huge employment for both skilled and unskilled labour in textiles. The textile industry continues to be the second largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million in the country.

The Kavach system was announced in the 2022 Union Budget as a part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative. Around 2,000 km of rail network is planned to be brought under the indigenous system to enable safety and capacity augmentation in 2022-23. Indian Railways tested 'Kavach'-Automatic Train Protection System by making two trains move towards each other at full speed.

The Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha (KKGSS) is a manufacturing federation located in Garag village near Dharwad City in Dharwad district, Karnataka, India. It is the only unit in India that is authorised to manufacture and supply the Indian flag.

It was established in 6 June 1997. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional multilateral organisation. BIMSTEC not only connects South and Southeast Asia, but also the ecologies of the Great Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal. It mainly aims to create an enabling environment for rapid economic development; accelerate social progress; and promote collaboration on matters of common interest in the region. Initially, it was formed with four Member States with the acronym ‗BIST-EC‘ (Bangladesh, India, Sri-Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation). It was renamed ‗BIMST-EC‘ in 1997, following the inclusion of Myanmar. With the admission of Nepal and Bhutan in 2004, the name of the grouping was changed to ‗Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation‘ (BIMSTEC).

Forests cover 31 percent of the global land area. The total forest area is 4.06 billion hectares, or approximately 5 000m2 (or 50 x 100m) per person, but forests are not equally distributed around the globe.

60. 1 Kerala - 1084 3 Tamil Nadu - 996 4 Andhra Pradesh – 993