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Choose the correct option to complete the statement given below.
Which one is not the job of the Municipal Corporation?

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  1. It keeps the streets and markets clean.

  2. It makes gardens and maintains them.

  3. It builds hotels for the tourists

  4. It runs schools, hospitals and dispensaries.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Functions of Municipal Corporation :

(1) It takes care of street light, garbage collection, water supply.
(2) It keeps the street and the market clean.
(3) It ensures that diseases do not break out in the city.
(4) It runs schools, hospitals, and dispensaries.
(5) It makes gardens and maintains them.

Property taxes form only __________ percent of the money that a Municipal Corporation earns.

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  1. $5-10$

  2. $25-30$

  3. $50-60$

  4. $80-90$

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Property taxes form only 25-30 percent of the money that a Municipal Corporation earns.

State whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F).
Pune, being a big city, has a Municipal Corporation.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Municipal Corporation is a local governing body which is found in big cities.

It is the _______ that decides on which day of the week the market has to remain closed.

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  1. Gram Panchayat

  2. State Assembly

  3. Municipal Corporation

  4. Union Parliament

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It is the Municipal Corporation that decides on which day of the week the market has to remain closed.

Tehsildars also known as ______ work under the District Collector.

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  1. Patwari

  2. Revenue Officers

  3. Judicial Officers

  4. Session Judge

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tehsildars also known as revenue Officers work under the District Collector.

Choose the correct option to complete the given statements:
The authority that issues a license to the permanent shops is the ________.

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  1. Municipal corporation

  2. Electricity department

  3. Home Ministry

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Municipal corporation of the city issues the license to the permanent shops in the city.

PDS stands for _________.

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  1. Power Development System

  2. Public Development System

  3. Public Distribution System

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The government generally provides food grains and other daily required items like oil, salt etc to below poverty line people at subsidized rates, through Fair price shop, this system of distribution is called PDS which stands for Public Distribution System.

The Karnataka government set up the Karnataka Pulpwood Limited in ___________.

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  1. 1980

  2. 1984

  3. 1989

  4. 1990

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Correct Option: B

The distribution of powers among Central, State and  Local governments in India depicts the power sharing arrangement among different _______________.

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  1. Departments

  2. Levels of governments

  3. Socio-political groups

  4. Political groups and movements

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Correct Option: B

The two functions of parties are ____________.

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  1. electioneering and lobbying

  2. electioneering and governing

  3. fundraising and governing

  4. lobbying and governing

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Correct Option: B