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Contemporary Indian Issues

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Contemporary Indian issues encompass the diverse socio-economic and political challenges currently facing the country. Topics include agricultural struggles, implementation of acts like the RTI, export challenges, and public service distribution. Answering these questions helps build analytical skills required for descriptive and preliminary exams.

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Contemporary Indian Issues Questions

Multiple choice civics rural livelihoods village of katik and kekti tanks and fisheries fishing in coastal regions

What is the most difficult challenge faced by independent India?

  1. Malnutrition

  2. Child labour

  3. Unemployment

  4. Poverty
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Poverty is widely considered the most fundamental challenge for post-independence India, as it is the root cause of many other issues like malnutrition, illiteracy, and unemployment. While the other options are serious problems, they are largely symptoms or consequences of widespread poverty.

Multiple choice political science diversity in society secularism understanding secularism importance and principles of secularism

What are the threats to the Indian secularism?

  1. Vote bank politics

  2. Intolerance

  3. Social inequalities

  4. All of these
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Explanation

India is a secular nation I.e., the state remains neutral in matters concerning religions or equal treatment of all religion by the state without favoring one or discriminating other. The political process in India has emanated from the social environment. The politicians lure people in the name of religion, faith, caste and divide them. The rising socioeconomic inequalities and intolerance among people regarding each other's belief, opinion, religion possess a serious threat to the secular fabric of the nation.

Multiple choice political science achieving equality moving towards equality diversity and discrimination concepts of individualism and society

What is/are the main problem or problems India faces?

  1. Inequality

  2. Poverty

  3. Illiteracy

  4. All of these
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Explanation

Though India is a democratic country and has achieved political equality still social and economic inequalities exist here. Some people are very rich and some are so poor that they can't afford two times meal for themselves. As some people are very poor as a result they are unable to give education to their children. This increases the number of illiterate people.

Multiple choice economics the state of the indian economy on the eve of independence diversification into productive activities policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule cottage and small scale industries

Which of the following is the reason behind low productivity of India's livestock despite the population being very high?

  1. Lack of promotion of good breed of animals.

  2. Lack of credit facilities for small and marginal farmers.

  3. Lack of good veterinary care.

  4. All of the above.
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Explanation

Though in terms of numbers, our livestock population is quite impressive but its productivity is quite low ascompared to other countries. It requiresimproved technology andpromotion of good breeds of animals to enhance productivity. Improved veterinary care and credit facilities to small and marginal farmers and landless labourers would enhancesustainable livelihood options through livestock production.

Multiple choice economics international economics indian economy during reforms liberalization, privatisation and globalisation: an appraisal structural changes in indian economy after liberalization

Hike in power tariff during reform period led to 50 powerloom workers committing suicide in a small town called _____ in ______. 

  1. Sircilla, Andhra Pradesh

  2. Sircilla, Uttar Pradesh

  3. Sircilla, Telangana

  4. None of the above
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A Correct answer
Explanation
Hike in power tariff combined with cut in wages of weavers led to a crisis in the livelihood of weavers and fifty powerloom workers committed suicide in a small town called ‘Siricilla’ in Andhra Pradesh.
Multiple choice civics understanding marginalisation marginalisation marginalisation in india our society

Which of the following cannot be regarded as a major problem faced by the Adivasis today?

  1. Militarisation of tribal areas

  2. Construction of dams

  3. Establishment of industries

  4. Unlawful grabbing of tribal lands
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Scheduled tribes are also called as Adivasis. These people mostly depend on forests for their survival especially by selling forest products like honey, gum, fruits etc. Present day, problems faced by Adivasis are militarization, urbanisation, construction of dams, industrialisation which cause deforestation. Unlawful grabbing of tribal lands has been reduced these days. 

Multiple choice political science national integration diverse democracy diversity unity and diversity in india community and community development community development national symbols our national symbols

The main hindrance to national integration in India is ___________________.

  1. The language policy of the government

  2. The non-functioning of the National Integration Council

  3. The formation of linguistic states

  4. The absence of strong national consciousness
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Explanation
National integration is a socio - psychological process through which a feeling of unity, solidarity and cohersion develops in the hearts of the people.
Though Indian constitution give stress on integrity of country and do not favour any particular language, caste, religion or any group but still people feel theselves attatched with their particular religion,caste and  language. Due to this passion in many areas they raise their voice to have a separate state on basis of language, caste, and religion. This leads to weaken the unity of nation. 
 For example before 1956 people demanded for formation of andhra on basis of their language. Later many state were further divided. Punjab was divided in Punjab and Haryana. "Sons of soil theory " advocates for preference to local people in government and private job. In some states they give slogan for their own state citizen llike Assam for Assamese, Maharashtra for Maharashtrians etc.
Multiple choice political science national integration diverse democracy diversity unity and diversity in india community and community development community development national symbols our national symbols

Which of the following problems is not considered or confronted by the National Integration Council?

  1. Linguism

  2. Casteism

  3. Cyber-security threat

  4. Threat of regional violence
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C Correct answer
Explanation

National integration council is a group of senior politicians and public figures who gather and look ways to solve communalism, casteism and regionalism. It doesn’t have any role to play in Cyber-security threat.

Multiple choice history contribution of madhya pradesh in freedom struggle the age of industrialisation emerging from the shadow of china the nationalist movement in indo-china

Which of the following two problems were faced by cotton weavers in India?

  1. Short supply and decline in demand

  2. Decline in production and rise in cost

  3. Export market collapsed and local market shrank

  4. Company officials' treatment and governments' apathy
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C Correct answer
Explanation
  • By the turn of the 19th-century, weavers faced a new set of problems. As the cotton industry developed in England, Indian cotton weavers faced two problems - their export market collapsed and local market shrank being flooded with British goods. Indian handmade goods could not compete with fine machine-made goods of England.
  • By 1860, they faced a new problem. They could not get sufficient supply of raw cotton which was sent to England for their industries after American world war. The prices of raw cotton shot up and Indian weavers were forced to buy raw cotton at exorbitant prices. In most cases, they were unable to pay.
Multiple choice biology reproductive health reproductive health of humans need of family planning reproductive health problems different types of reproduction

Which of the following is the problem related to reproductive health in India?

  1. Taboos

  2. Early marriage

  3. Elephantiasis

  4. Both A and B
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D Correct answer
Explanation

 In early marriage , since the age of the female partner is low , so as to give birth to a healthy child . Therefore the IMR & MMR are high in early marriages. Also in some parts of the rural India, there still exist some sex related taboos So, the correct answer is 'Both A and B'

Multiple choice geography state of industries in india meaning and classification of industries industrialisation and urbanisation urbanisation

What are the problems of rural industrialization in India?

  1. lack of Capital

  2. lack of Basic infrastructure

  3. traditional technique of production

  4. all of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Rural industrialization in India faces systemic hurdles including lack of capital, poor infrastructure, and reliance on outdated production techniques.

Multiple choice labour and its division social stratification labour sociology

The Challenges faced by the labourers from the unorganised Sector are ?

  1. Migration

  2. Lack of Social security

  3. Child Labour

  4. All
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Explanation
In unorganized sectors, employee has less facilities than the employee s of organised sector. Some of the problem faced by labourers in the unorganized sector are:
1) workers working in unorgansied sector get few wages.
2) There is no provision for over time, paid leave, holidays, leave due to sickness etc. 
3) Employment is a subject to high degree of insecurity. 
4) it is largely outside the control of government
5) The child labor is the most exploited among the employees in an unorganised sector. 
6) Lastly, the work in the unorgansied sector is not fixed, it depends on various factor so in search of the job the labourers have to move fromone place to another. The expensed spent on migration pose a threat to their livelihood.
Multiple choice civics our national symbols national symbols diverse democracy national integration citizens and citizenship citizens and citizenship

What are the factors hindering national integration in India? 

  1. Castesim, communalism and regionalism.

  2. Castesim, communalism and vegetarianism.

  3. Regionalism, communalism and spiritualism

  4. Spiritualism, vegetarianism and communalism
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A Correct answer
Explanation

India is a diverse Country and contains several communities, castes, religions, etc. The factors which are affecting national integration or unity in India are:
1) Casteism - The structure of society divided on caste has ruined the feeling of developing unity among people.
2) Communalism - society is divided into communities based on religion and conflicts among them cause riots and disturbance.
3) Linguistic differences -There are over 1652 languages spoken all over the India. People try to establish supremacy of their language over other which cause clashes and conflicts.
4) Regionalism - Regionalism restricts people to think of a nation as whole. They work for promoting the interest of the particular region they belong and compete with other regions.
Economic Inequalities - The financial status of some People in India differ from others. The rich becoming richer and poor becoming poorer causing gap among people to integrate as one.
Multiple choice social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

Among the underweight children of the world, 42 percent are in ________.

  1. India

  2. China

  3. Bangladesh

  4. Indonesia
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A Correct answer
Explanation

A new study based on a survey of the height and weight of more than one lakh children across six States has found that as many as 42 per cent of under-fives are severely or moderately underweight and that 59 per cent of them suffer from moderate to severe stunting, meaning their height is much lower than the median height-for-age of the reference population.