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Organisations and Events Dates

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Remembering the establishment years of major organizations and historical event dates is vital for competitive exams. This includes nationalization acts, budgets, and environmental laws. These questions will help you memorize important dates for your upcoming government test.

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Organisations and Events Dates Questions

Multiple choice

When was the Pulse Polio Programme launched in India?

Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

India’s polio-free certification, which was awarded by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 for ensuring polio did not infect anyone in three straight years, took almost two decades of very hard work. Though vaccination against polio started in 1978 under India’s Expanded Programme in Immunisation, only about 40% children under five were being reached by 1984.
Following the WHO’s Polio Eradication Initiative, India launched its Pulse Polio Programme in 1995 with the target to vaccinate every child under five. It took some years, but it met targets. For successive years, each one of the country’s 26 million newborns was vaccinated against the paralysing infection not once but repeatedly for the first five years of their lives. The biggest challenges were geography (for example, in the Kosi river belt in Bihar annual floods isolate several hundred families), work-related migration and ignorance: some families would refuse vaccination because they were convinced the drops would make their children impotent.
Ensuring these lifesaving drops reach around 800 million children each year — 172 million children are reached in each nationwide round of vaccination, and then there are sub-national rounds — is a spectacular feat by any standards.

  1. 1974

  2. 1984

  3. 1995

  4. 2014
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The third sentence of the passage gives the answer, 'India launched its Pulse Polio Programme in 1995 with the target to vaccinate every child under five.'

Multiple choice

When did Apple make its iPhone debut in India?

  1. 4th April 2007

  2. 16 May 2008

  3. 15 February 2009

  4. 21st August 2008
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Apple officially launched the iPhone in India through partnerships with Airtel and Vodafone on August 21, 2008.

Multiple choice

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia recently said that the exercise of producing an annual 'outcome budget' for union ministries should be scrapped. In which financial year was the 'Outcome Budget' first presented by the Finance Minister of India?

  1. 2002-03

  2. 2003-04

  3. 2004-05

  4. 2005-06
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Outcome budgets are progress reports of Ministries on what they have done with the money allocated to them in the national budget that is presented in parliament each year. It helps in the evaluation of various schemes and improvement in their delivery. Introduced during 2005-06, the outcome budget was meant to be a tool to discipline all Ministries in terms of how and when they spend their allocated money, and ensure that expenditures were not staggered towards the last quarter of the fiscal.

Multiple choice

In which year, SAARC was established?

  1. 1985

  2. 1986

  3. 1987

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established on December 8, 1985, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the signing of the SAARC Charter.

Multiple choice

Mizoram was declared a state in

  1. 1977�

  2. 1967

  3. 1987�

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Mizoram was upgraded from a Union Territory to a full-fledged state of the Indian Union on February 20, 1987.

Multiple choice

RBI was nationalized in the year

  1. 1950

  2. 1949

  3. 1947

  4. 1952
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was nationalized on January 1, 1949, under the Reserve Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.

Multiple choice

President's rule was imposed for the first time in Haryana on

  1. 21st Nov., 1967

  2. 30th April, 1977

  3. 2nd Dec., 1989

  4. 6th April, 1991
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

President's rule was imposed in Haryana for the first time on November 21, 1967, following the instability of the Rao Birender Singh government. This was the first instance of Article 356 being invoked in the state.