Feb Ca Edutap
Feb Ca Edutap
Feb Ca Edutap
REVISION Series
Most Important MCQs
Phase 1
FEBRUARY CURRENT AFFAIRS
Lecture 13
The Government has approved setting up of a major port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in
Maharashtra at a cost of Rs 65,544.54 crores.
Q. According to a recently released research , What is India’s rank among the list of
countries most likely to import the cases of novel Coronavirus?
[1] 5th
[2] 7th
[3] 12th
[4] 15th
[5] 17th
Answer: [5] 17th
Q. Standard and poor’s (S&P) has given which of the following ratings to India in
February 2020?
[1] BBB-
[2] AA
[3] CCC+
[4] BB-
[5] B
Answer: [1] BBB-
According to National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, the number of people who died
while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the countries increased by almost 62% from 68%
in 2018 to 110 in 2019.
Q. Under the revamped Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna and Restructured weather
based crop insurance scheme, Central subsidy has to be limited for premium rates
upto _______and ______ for unirrigated and irrigated areas respectively in February
2020.
[1] 15%,10%
[2] 30%,25%
[3] 25%,20%
[4] 20%,15%
[5] 35%, 30%
Answer: [2] 30%,25%
Q. There can be a scenario where poverty is handed over to individuals and families
from generations before them. In this type of poverty , there is usually no escape as
people are trapped in its causes and have no access to tools that will help them get out
of it. What can this type of poverty be called?
[1] Situational Poverty
[2] Generational Poverty
[3] Absolute Poverty
[4] Relative Poverty
[5] Transitory Poverty
Answer: [2] Generational Poverty
Q. Which of the following is the correct formula for finding the unemployment rate?
[1] (Unemployed workers/Total no. of people employed)*100
[2] (Unemployed workers/Total Labour force)*100
[3] (Unemployed workers/Total no. of people seeking employment)*100
[4] (No. of people seeking employment/Total Labour Force)*100
[5] None of the above
Answer: [2] (Unemployed workers/Total Labour force)*100
Q. The type of unemployment which occurs due to the mismatch between the jobs
available in the market and the skills of the available workers is known as __________
[1] Frictional Unemployment
[2] Seasonal Unemployment
[3] Structural Unemployment
[4] Chronic Unemployment
[5] Open Unemployment
Answer: [3] Structural Unemployment
Q. A type of migration where there is a desperate search for work driving poorer people
in many directions without a clear final destination is known as ________
[1] Footloose migration
[2] Directionless migration
[3] Uncontrolled migration
[4] Chronic migration
[5] Loose migration
Answer: [1] Footloose migration
Q. Which of the following is/are not one of the categories of the Priority Sector
Lending (PSL)?
[1] Export Credit
[2] Manufacturing Industries
[3] Housing
[4] Agriculture
[5] Micro and Small Enterprises
Answer: [2] Manufacturing Industries
Q. Which of the following is the ratio of the HDIs calculated separately for females and
males using the same methodology as in the HDI?
[1] Gender Development Index (GDI)
[2] Gender Inequality Index (GII)
[3] Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
[4] Gender Divide Index
[5] None of the above
Answer: [1] Gender Development Index (GDI)
• The GDI is the ratio of the HDIs calculated separately for females and males using
the same methodology as in the HDI.
West Bengal was the largest Rice producing state in India with a total
production of 14.97 million tonnes and a yield of 2432 kg/hectare.
Punjab had 13.38 lakh tonne rice production that accounts for 11.85
percent of total productivity
Uttar Pradesh had total of 13.27 lakh tonne rice production and
accounting 11.75 per cent of total production of country.
Q.11) Which of the following states had largest area under micro irrigation ?
[1] Madhya Pradesh
[2] Uttar Pradesh
[3] Rajasthan
[4] Andhra Pradesh
[5] Maharashtra
Answer : [3] Rajasthan
Haryana had 99.9% of its rice cultivation area covered under the irrigation thus
accounts for total having largest area under irrigation for rice crop.
Uttar Pradesh has 5.81 million hectare area under rice crop cultivation
that accounts for 13.28 percent of total area of nation.
West Bengal has 5.12 million hectare area under rice cultivation that is
11.68 percent of total area
Chhattisgarh has 3.76 million hectare area under rice crop cultivation
and it accounts for 8.59 per cent of total area of country.
Uttar Pradesh has 2.25 million tonnes of sugar cane production that
accounts for 47.21percent of total area of nation.
Madhya Pradesh has 0.90 million tonne wheat production that is 19.06
percent of total productivity
Andhra Pradesh has 0.2 million tonnes of Crude Palm Oil production
area.
It has 162689 ha area under Crude Palm Oil production.
Kerala has 1015.1 hectare area under plantation crops and accounts for 6054.8 MT
production, while the total area under plantation crop in country is 3742.91
hectare.
Karnataka has 915.8 hectare under plantation crops and produces 4936.1 MT of
plantation crops and total Production of the country is 18082.41 MT
Tamil Nadu has 619.7 hectare under plantation crop and produces 4234.9 MT
Q.18) What percent of total Pulses of world was produced by the India 2017-18?
[1] 33%
[2] 21.75%
[3] 24.73%
[4] 37.42%
[5] 26.32%
Answer : [2] 21.75%
India has 867.27 million people in rural area while the global population
accounts for 3370.78 million thus India holds 25.73 % of the total world
population.
India has 1.90 mllion tonnes of jute while the global production accounts
for 3.31 million tonnes thus India holds 57.31 % of the total global
production.
India has 186.04 million heads of cattle while the global production accounts
for 1488.96 million heads thus India holds 12.49% of the total global cattle
population.
Brazil has the largest cattle inventory in the world followed by India and China.
India is the major producer of milk in the world, recorded a milk production
figure of 165.33 million tonnes in 2017-18 of total world’s production of 809.80
million tonnes which accounts for 20.42 % of the global share.
In 2017, about 67 kilograms of rice was available per capita in India. There was a
slight increase in the amount of rice available over the years.
During the measured time period, this staple accounted for a large portion of
overall food grain availability
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