General Awareness 1 According to the Economic Survey tabled in Parliament on 153.

2012, the GDP Growth of the country for the year 2011-12 is projected at 2 GDP growth of the country for 2011-12 is 3 The Government aims to ensure fiscal consolidation, that is reducing fiscal deficit. Fiscal Deficit, expressed as a percentage to GDP for the year 2011-12 is 4 Who is the Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister? 5 Cash Reserve Ration was cut by RBI during March 2012 to . W e f 10.3.2012. This will inject Rs. .. into the system 6 . Is the percentage of Deposits commercial banks must keep with the Central bank 7 Repo rate is the indicative short term rate, ie. The rate at which Banks borrow from RBI. Presently (Mar12), the Repo rate is 8 Reverse repo is the rate at which Banks park their funds with RBI. Present Repo rate is (Mar12) 9 Name the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 10 Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century at . Against .. 11 In the Union Budget tabled on 16.3.2012, service tax rate was hiked from . % to% 12 The fund allocation for MGNREGA was down from Rs.40000 Cr in 2011-12 to in 2012-13 budget 13 Name the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand who was sworn in during March 2012 14 Name the capital of Syria 15 Name the President of Syria (mar 12) 16 Name the Founder of Wikileaks 17CERN research site on neutrinos is situated at 18 Disinvestment Secretary of India is He has recently said the target level of disinvestment of PSUs for 2012-13 would be Rs.30000 Cr. 19 Name the President of Pakistan 20 Name the Prime Minister of Nepal 21 The allocation of funds for children in the Union Budget for 2012-13 is 22 In India, which is the airline with highest market share 7.6% 6.9% 5.9% Kaushik Basu 4.75% Rs.48000 Cr CRR 8.5% 7.5% Akhilesh Yadav Mirpur, Bangladesh 10 to 12 Rs.33000 cr Vijay Bahuguna Damascus Bashar alAssad Julian Assange Switzerland Mohd.Haleem Khan Asif Ali Zardari Baburam Bhattarai 5.3% Jet Airways (28.8%) Indigo 20.8% AIrindia

23 The agriculture credit target for 2012-13 announced in the Union Budget is . Up by 1 lac from the previous years target 24 According to Govt. of India, the interest rate on Short term agricultural loan will be. And for prompt repayers, it will be 25 In economic terms, the total value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year is. 26 Contribution of agriculture to the GDP growth of the countery is

17.4% Spice get 16.25% Kingfisher 5.8% 5.75 Lac cr 7%, 4% GDP 10%