RATE OF INCENTIVE FOR DELIVERY OF UID AADHAR CARDS- C.O CLARIFICATION

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REVISION OF POSTAGE RATES OF FOREIGN PARCELS (AIR/SAL) W.E.F. FROM SEPTEMBER 2012.

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MODEL QUESTIONS FOR IPO EXAM PAPER IV(GK) CLASSICAL DANCE

CLASSICAL DANCE

Classical Dance of India
Dance	State
Bharat Natyam	Tamil Nadu
Bihu	Assam
Bhangra	Punjab
Chhau	Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand
Garhwali	Uttaranchal
Garba	Gujarat
Hattari	Karnataka
Kathak	North India
Kathakali	Kerala
Kutchipudi	Andhra Pradesh
Khantumm	Mizoram
Karma	Madhya Pradesh
Laho	Meghalaya
Mohiniattam	Kerala
Mando	Goa
Manipuri	Manipur
Nati	Himachal Pradesh
Nat-Natin	Bihar
Odissi	Orissa
Rauf	Jammu & Kashmir
Yakshagan	Karnataka
Folk and Tribal Dances
States	Dances
Maharashtra	Kathakeertan, Lezin, Dandaniya, Tamasha, Gafa, Dahikala, Lovani, Mauni, Dasavtar.
Karnataka	Huttari, Suggi Kunitha, Yakashagana
Kerala	Kaikottikali, Kaliyattam, Tappatikkali
Tamil Nadu	Kolattam, Pinnal Kolattam, Kummi, Kavadi, Karagam
Andhra Pradesh	Ghanta Mardala, Veedhi Natakam, Burrakatha
Orissa	Ghumara Sanchar, Chadya Dandanata, Chhau
West Bengal	Kathi, Chhau, Baul, Kirtan, Jatra, Lama
Assam	Bihu, Khel Gopal, Rash Lila, Tabal Chongli, Canoe
Punjab	Giddha (women), Bhangra (men)
J & K	Rauf, Hikat
Himachal Pradesh	Jhora, Jhali, Dangli, Mahasu, Jadda, Jhainta, Chharhi
Haryana	Jhumar, Ras Leela, Phag dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khoria, Gagor
Gujarat	Garba, Dandiya Rass, Tippani, Gomph
Rajasthan	Ginad, Chakri, Gangore, Terahtaal, Khayal, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini
Bihar	Jata Jatin, Jadur, Chhau, Kathaputli, Bakho, Jhijhiya, Samochakwa, Karma, Jatra, Natna
Uttar Pradesh	Nautanki, Thora, Chappeli, Raslila, Kajri.
Famous Dancer
Bharatnatyam	Bala Saraswati, C. V. Chandrasekhar, Leela Samson, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Padma Subramanyam, Rukmini Devi, Sanyukta Panigrahi, Sonal Mansingh, Yamini Krishnamurti
Kathak	Bharti Gupta, Birju Maharaj, Damayanti Joshi, Durga Das, Gopi Krishna, Kumudini Lakhia, Sambhu Maharaj, Sitara Devi
Kuchipudi	Josyula Seetharamaiah, Vempathi Chinna Sthyam
Manipuri	Guru Bipin Sinha, Jhaveri Sisters, Nayana Jhaveri, Nirmala Mehta, Savita Mehta Debaprasad Das, Dhirendra nath Pattnaik, Indrani Rahman, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Priyambaba Mohanty, Sonal Mansingh
Instrumentalists
Sarod	Ali Akbar Khan, Allaudin Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Bahadur Khan, Sharan Rani, Zarin S. Sharma
Tabla	Alla Rakha Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Nikhil Ghosh, Zakir Hussain
Violin	Baluswamy Dikshitar, Gajanan Rao Joshi, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, M. S. Gopala krishnan, Mysore T. Chowdiah, T. N. Krishnan
Shehnal	Bismillah Khan
Sitar	Nikhil Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Hara Shankar Bhattacharya
Flute	Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghose, T. R. Mahalingam
Veena	K. R. Kumaraswamy lyer, Doraiswami lyengar
Vocalists
Hindustani	Shubha Mudgal, Bheemsen Joshi, Madhup Mudgal, Mukul Shivputra, Pandit Jasraj, Parveen Sultana, Naina Devi, Girija Devi, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Gangubai Hangal, Krishna Hangal, V. Rajput, Kumar Gandharva, Faiyyaz Khan, Mallikarjun Mansur.
Carnatic	M. S. Subbalakshmi, Balamuralikrishna, Bombay Jaishree, H. K. Raghavendra, H. K. Venkataram, Sitarajam, Mani Krishnaswamy, Akhil Krishnan, M. L. Vasanthakumari, M. D. Ramanathan, G. N. Balasubramaniam
Thumri	Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan, Ustad Zawad Ali Khan, Rita Ganguli, Poornima Chaudhary, Shanti Heerananda, Naina Devi
Quwwali	Ghulam Hasan Niyazi, Sultan Niyazi, Ghulam Farid Nizami, Chand Nizami, IqbalHussain Khan Bandanawaji, Aslam Sabari
Dhrupad	Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar, Zahiruddin Dagar, Waslfuddin Dagar, Bundecha Bandhu, Uday Bhawalkar, Pt. Abhay Narayan Mallick, Pt. Ritwik Sanyal

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MODEL QUESTIONS FOR IPO EXAM PAPER IV (GK) BOOK AND AUTHOR

BOOK AND AUTHOR

1. Who is the author of “The Kalam effect: My years with the president”?
(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi(c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun ShaurieANS (a)
2. Who is the author of the book “Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable”?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy(c) Shobha De (d) Vikram SethANS (c)
3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) KautilyaANS (a)
4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora(c) India Wins Freedom (d) CoolieANS (Try Yourself)
5. Who is the author of the book ’My other two daughters’?
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul KennedyANS (b)
6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the aboveANS (c)
7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ “ book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami VivekanandaANS (d)
8. Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character 9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam(c) Rith Samharam (d) KaavyadoothANS (d)
10. ’Sonia, a Biography’ was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan KuttyANS (c)
11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets(b) The philosopher’s stone(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked TruthANS (d)
12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book
(a) From the Earth to the moon(b) All under Heaven(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream(d) Past and PresentANS (a)
13. Who is the author of “A Passage to England”?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston ChurchillANS (b)
14. “Does IT matter” is a book written by
(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr(d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of theseANS (c)
15. ’Beyond time’ is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel(e) None of theseANS (e)
16. The famous book ’Anandmath’ has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya(c) Sarojini Naidu(d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (b)
17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal NehruANS (a)
18. The author of the book ’Waiting for Godot’ is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben JonsonANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma – R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale – Terry Mc Millan
19. “The Vedas contain all the truth”, was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. RadhakrishnanANS (b)
20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
ANS – Dara Shikoh
21.In “The Travels of Gulliver”, what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
ANS – The health of the sun
22.”The man who knew infinity” is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. RamanujanANS (d)
23.What was the original name of ’Alice in Wonderland’ when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?ANS – Alice’s Adventures Underground
24. The author of the book “Waiting for the Mahatma” is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. MalgonkarANS (a)



25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem ’Arjuna vivaha’ written?
ANS – King Airlangga
26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, ’Plain Tales From the Hills’?
ANS – To the wittiest woman in India
27. ’Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’ is R.M Lala’s biography of which Indian?
ANS – J. R. D. Tata
28. Which of Agatha Christie’s books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title ’Anna the Adventure’?ANS – The Man In The Brown Suit
29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen HawkingANS (d)
30. The book ’Living with Honour’ is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram SethANS (b)
31. The book ’Cricket My Style’ is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder AmarnathANS (c)
32. Who wrote the book ’The Book of Indian Birds’
ANS – Dr. Salim Ali
33. ’Economic History of India’ was written by
ANS – R. C. Dutt
34.The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva VedaANS (c)
35. ’Leelavathi’ the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
ANS – Mathematics
36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999)
ANS – Vikram Seth
37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871
ANS – Walt Whitman (American Poet)
38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales
ANS – Geoffrey Chaucer
39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin
ANS – Leo Tolstoy
40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom SawyerANS – Mark Twain
41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?ANS – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?ANS – William Shakespeare
43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal FarmANS – George Orwell
44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?ANS – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass?ANS – Lewis Carroll
46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ?ANS – William Shakespeare
47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama
ANS – Abul Fazl
48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?ANS – Mark Twain
49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?ANS – William Shakespeare
50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)ANS – Sir Isaac
51. Who is the author of the book “Jyoti Punj”?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi(c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram SethANS (c)

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Welfare Schemes for Women.

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Shri. Vineet Pandey (IPoS-1986), PMG SK Region, Karnataka Circle will hold additional charge of GM (CEPT), Mysore

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Franchise Scheme.

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Guidelines for Adoption of Children

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has revised the adoption guidelines and notified ‘Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children 2011’ on 27th June, 2011 to further streamline the adoption procedures. The criteria and procedures to be followed for adopting a child through Specialized Adoption Agencies are laid down in these Guidelines, which are based on the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 and Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption of which India is a signatory. All adoption agencies are required to follow the provisions of the Guidelines and appropriate action is taken by State Governments/UT Administrations/Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) as the case may be against the defaulting ones. To ensure the best interest of the child, these Guidelines provide that an orphaned, abandoned or surrendered child has to be declared legally free for adoption by a Child Welfare Committee before the child is proposed for adoption. Further, before placing the child with a family, a detailed Home Study Report is prepared to assess the suitability of parents to adopt. The final adoption order is passed by the Competent Court. To safeguard the interest of the adopted child, the adoption guidelines provide for post-adoption follow-up by adoption agencies for period of two years after adoption.

This was stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today.

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Hazards from Cell Phone Towers

World Health Organization (WHO) in its Fact Sheet No. 304, May 2006 on Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health (Base Stations and Wireless Technologies) has concluded that “considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak Radio Frequency (RF) Signals from base stations and wireless networks caused adverse health effects. From all evidence accumulated so far, no adverse short or long term health effects have been shown to occur from the RF Signals produced by based stations”. 

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), there are no conclusive data available so far on this issue. The review of literature does not establish conclusive evidence on the safety or risk of Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR) emitted from cell phone towers. 

Various studies have been conducted by International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) on cell phone tower radiations. ICNIRP guidelines on April 1998 states that, epidemiological studies on exposed workers and the general public have shown no major health effects associated with typical exposure environments. The studies have yielded no convicing evidence that typical exposure levels lead to adverse reproductive outcomes or an increased cancer risk in exposed individuals. 

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had adopted the International EMF norms in the year 2008 in respect of mobile towers prescribed by International Commission on Non-lonizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and licenses were accordingly amended. 

Further, based on the recommendations of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on radiation, norm for exposure limit for the Radio frequency Field (Base Station Emissions) has been reduced to 1/10th of the existing limits prescribed by ICNIRP, which will be effective from 01.09.2012. 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Shri Milind Deora in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today. 

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Steps taken by the Government for expeditious issuance of passports to the citizens

As per Government instructions, passports to Indian citizens are issued as per the provisions of the Passports Act 1967 and the Passport Rules 1980 as amended from time to time.  Prior to issuing a passport, the Passport Issuing Authority must establish the applicant’s citizenship, identity and an absence of criminal record as mandated by the Passports Act.  This requires verification of personal particulars of applicants and background check of their criminal antecedents which are time consuming.

The Government is aware that in a number of cases, there are delays in issuance of passport.  The reasons for delay normally are as under:

(i)    increase in demand for passport;

(ii)  delays in receipt of police verification reports within the stipulated time of 21 days;

(iii)  receipt of incomplete police reports due to submission of incomplete information/documentation by the applicants; and

(iv)  Shortage of staff strength in the Central Passport Organization, not keeping with the increase in demand for services.

The Government has fixed a time limit of 30 days for issue of fresh passports and 15 days for re-issue of passports and 1-7 days for Tatkaal applications.  The Government is considering several citizen-friendly proposals, including revision of time-limit for issue of passports given in Ministry of External Affairs’ Citizen Charter, to improve the delivery-process of passport issuance.

In spite of various constraints, in 2011, the Ministry issued 73.65 lakh passports and related services which is a record ever achieved in any year.

Some activities of middlemen have been noticed in and around Passport Offices.  In order to obviate any need to approach any middlemen for any kind of service, passport application procedures are prominently displayed in all the Passport Offices. Advisories cautioning the public against middlemen/touts are also displayed prominently.  Whenever middlemen activities are noticed, Passport Officers, with the assistance of local police, conduct raids to eliminate this menace.

In order to further simplify the passport procedure, a Mission Mode Project (MMP) was identified under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Government of India which inter alia includes many other high impact e-Governance initiatives and projects.  The MMP on Passports, named Passport Seva Project, aims “to deliver all Passport-related services to the citizens in a timely, transparent, more accessible, reliable manner & in a comfortable environment through streamlined processes and committed, trained & motivated workforce”.  The Passport Seva Project (PSP) incorporates the global best practices in the passport issuance system. The key features of the PSP are enumerated below:

• Establishing 77 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) for delivering all front-end citizen services.( The Project has been completely executed and  all 77 PSKs were made operational by early June 2012)
• Creation of on-line Passport Portal [www.passportindia.gov.in] for offering Passport services.
• Providing links to designated points in Police department.
• Establishing a Central Passport Printing Facility (CPPF) for handling extra load of Dispatch process to Postal Department.
• Introduction of a multi-modal Information and Grievance handling system.
• Creating a centralized IT system linking all PSK’s, Passport Offices, Police and Postal Departments.
• Introducing productivity linked incentive scheme for Government employees.
• Establishing a proper Program Governance Structure for managing the   implementation and operation of all the above.

The Minister of State in the Ministry Of External Affairs Smt. Preneet Kaur provided this information in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Source : PIB, August 17, 2012

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Walk-in Facility for Passport

The Ministry of External Affairs issued an advisory in June, 2012 to all Regional Passport Offices in the country to introduce walk in facility to ease availability of on line appointment and facilitate easy submission of forms for passport applications under following categories:

• Applicants for Tatkaal services (fresh / re-issue cases);
• Applicants for issue of Police Clearance Certificate (PCC);
• Applicants for deletion of ECR status in passports without any change in personal particulars;
• Applicants for inclusion of name of the spouse in passport;
• Applicants with valid passports, seeking new booklets in case of exhaustion of visa pages;
• Senior Citizens (above 60 years);
• Minor below 15 years whose parents hold valid passports;
• Physically challenged persons; and
• Central / State Government servants, their spouses and dependent minor children who have ‘No Objection Certificate’ / Identity Certificate.

The Ministry of External Affairs has recently introduced walk in facility to ease online appointments and smoothen submission of applications at the six Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) under Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad from these above mentioned categories of applicants w.e.f. August 01, 2012.

The Minister of State in the Ministry Of External Affairs Smt. Preneet Kaur provided this information in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 

Source : PIB, August 17, 2012

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