Most Imp 50 GK Questions about Mahatma Gandhi

Most Imp 50 GK questions about Mahatma Gandhi

1. When did Gandhiji born?
Answer: In 1869 October 2

2. When did Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law?
Answer: in 1893

3. Where did Gandhiji's first Satyagraha experimented?
Answer: South Africa in 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic
Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval

4. When was Gandhiji's first imprisonment?
Answer: 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa

5. In which railway station where Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted ?
Answer: Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica

6. When did Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica)?
Answer: in 1910

7. Where did Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement ?
Answer: Durban in South Africa

8. What is the name of weakly started by Gandhiji in SouthAfrica?
Answer: Indian opinion (1904)

9. When did Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa ?
Answer: 9th January 1915.
January 9 is observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

10. Where was Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India?
Answer: It was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917

11. Where was gandhiji’s first fast (Gandhiji’s second satyagraha in India)?
Answer: In Ahmadabad

12. Which causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?
Answer: JallianwalabaghMassacre (1919)

13. Who started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

14. Which is the only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji?
Answer: Congress session at Belgaum in 1924

15. Who started All India Harijan Samaj in 1932?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

16. Where is Wardha Ashram situated?
Answer: In Maharashtra

17. When did Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan?
Answer: 1933

18. Gandhiji called Subhash Chandra Bose as _________?
Answer: Patriot

19. Who called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”?
Answer: Winston Churchill

20. Who gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

21. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?
Answer: Tagore

22. Who is political guru of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

23. Who is considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

24. When did Gandhiji assassinated?
Answer: 1948 January 30 by Nadhuram Vinayak Godse

25. What was called as 'Post Dated Cheque' by Gandhiji ?
Answer: Cripps's Mission (1942)

26. When did Gandhiji published 'Hind Swaraj' ?
Answer: In the year 1908

27. who gave Baba Amta the title 'Abhay Sadak' ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

28. The period which is considered as 'Gandhian Era' in Indian Independence struggle ?
Answer: 1915 - 1948

29. Where was Gandhiji’s third satyagraha in India?
Answer: kheda satyagraha

30. What is the real name of Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: Satya na prayogo

31. What is the period that referred in Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: 1869 - 1921

32. When did Autobiography of Gandhiji first published ?
Answer: 1927 (in Navajeevan)

33. In which language Gandhiji wrote his Autobiography ?
Answer: Gujarati

34. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography into English ?
Answer: Mahadev Desai

35. Who founded Satyagrah Sabha ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

36. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai ?
Answer: Pyarelal

37. What is the real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Madeleine Slade

38. Who compared Gandhi's Dandi March to the legendary journey of Sri Rama to Lanka ?
Answer: Motilal Nehru
* Persons having nick name as Gandhi

39. Who is known as Frontier Gandhi ?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

40. Who is known as Bihar Gandhi ?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

41. Who is known as Modern Gandhi ?
Answer: Baba Amte

42. Who is known as Sri Lankan Gandhi ?
Answer: A.T. Ariyaratne

43. Who is known as American Gandhi ?
Answer: Martin Luther King

44. Who is known as Burmese Gandhi ?
Answer: General Aung San

45. Who is known as African Gandhi ?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda

46. Who is known as South African Gandhi ?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

47. Who is known as Kenya Gandhi ?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta

48. Who is known as Indonesian Gandhi ?
Answer: Ahmed Sukarno

49. Who wrote the book "The words of Gandhi" ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

50. Who is the write of "Gandhi on Non-Violence" ?
Answer: Thomas Merton

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List of books written by Indian politicians

List of books written by Indian politicians

•  Discovery of India, Bunch of Old Letters, - Jawaharlal Nehru
•  Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
•  The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
•  India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy - Ramachandra Guha
•  The Wonder That Was India - A L Basham
•  The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
•  A Corner Of A Foreign Field - Ramachandra Guha
•  India: A history - John Keay
•  Alberuni’s India by Alberuni (Translated by Edward C. Sachau)
•  My Country My Life - L. K. Advani (Autobiography)
•  Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence - Jaswant Singh
•  India 2020 A Vision for the New Millennium , Turning Points -APJ Abdul Kalam- APJ Abdul Kalam
•  My Unforgettable Memories -Mamata Banerjee
•  "Muslim in Indian cities”- Hamid Ansari
•  A Bend in the River, A House for Mr.Biswas -V. S. Naipaul
•  Broken Wings - Sarojini Naidu
•  A Foreign Policy for India- I.K. Gujral

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CCS (CCA) RULES - Resignation from Service procedure

CENTRAL CIVIL SERVICES (CCA) RULES, 1965

CCS (CCA) RULES - Resignation from Service

(12) Resignation from Service procedure in respect of :- 

Instructions have been issued from time to time on the subject of resignation. These instructions have now been consolidated for facility of reference and guidance of all the Ministry/Departments of the Government of India.

1. Resignation is an intimation in writing sent to the competent authority by the incumbent of a post, of his intention or proposal to resign the office/post either immediately or from a future specified date. A resignation has to be clear and unconditional.

2. it is not in the interest of Government to retain an unwilling Government servant in service. The general rule, therefore, is that a resignation of a Government servant from service should be accepted, except in the circumstances indicated below :-

(i) Where the Government servant concerned is engaged on work of importance and it would take time to make alternative arrangements for filling the post, the resignation should not be accepted straightway but only when alternative arrangements for filling the post have been made.

(ii) Where a Government servant who is under suspension submits a resignation the competent authority should examine, with reference to the merit of the disciplinary case pending against the Government servant, whether it would be in the public interest to accept the resignation. Normally, as Government servants are placed under suspension only in cases of grave delinquency, it would not be correct to accept a resignation from a Government servant under suspension. Exceptions to this rule would be where the alleged offences do not involve moral turpitude or where the quantum of evidence against the accused Government servant is not strong enough to justify the assumption that if the departmental proceedings were continued, he would be removed or dismissed from service, or where the departmental proceedings are likely to be so protracted that it would be cheaper to the public exchequer to accept the resignation.

In those cases where acceptance of resignation is considered necessary in the public interest, the resignation may be accepted with the prior approval of the Head of the Department in respect of Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ posts and that of the Minister in charge in respect of holders of Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts. In so far as Group ‘B’ officers serving in Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, the resignation of such officers shall not be accepted except with the prior approval of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Concurrence of the Central Vigilance Commission should be obtained before submission of the case to the Minister-in-charge/Comptroller and Auditor General, if the Central Vigilance Commission had advised initiation of departmental action against the Government servant concerned or such action has been initiated on the advice of the Central Vigilance Commission.

3. A resignation becomes effective when it is accepted and the Government servant is relieved of his duties. If a Government servant who had submitted a resignation, sends an intimation in writing to the appointing authority withdrawing his earlier letter of resignation before its acceptance by the appointing authority, the resignation will be deemed to have been automatically withdrawn and there is no question of accepting the resignation. In case, however, the resignation had been accepted by the appointing authority and the Government servant is to be relieved from a future date, if any request for withdrawing the resignation is made by the Government servant before he is actually relieved of his duties, the normal principle should be to allow the request of the Government servant to withdraw the resignation. If, however, the request for withdrawal is to be refused, the grounds for the rejection of the request should be duly recorded by the appointing authority and suitably intimated to the Government servant concerned.

4. Since a temporary Government servant can sever his connection from a Government service by giving a notice of termination of service under Rule 5 (1) of the Central Civil Services (TS) Rules, 1965, the instructions contained in this Office Memorandum relating to acceptance of resignation will not be applicable in cases where a notice of termination of service has been given by a temporary Government servant. If, however, a temporary Government servant submits a letter of resignation in which he does not refer to Rule 5 (1) of the CCS (TS) Rules, 1965, or does not even mention that it may be treated as a notice of termination of service, he can relinquish the charge of the post held by him only after the resignation is duly accepted by the appointing authority and he is relieved of his duties and not after the expiry of te notice period laid down in the Temporary Service Rules.

5. The procedure for withdrawal of resignation after it has become effective and the Government servant had relinquished the charge of his earlier post, are governed by the following statutory provision in sub-rules (4) to (6) of Rule 26 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 which corresponds to Art. 418 (b) of the Civil Service Regulations:-

“(4) The appointing authority may permit a person to withdraw his resignation in the public interest on the following conditions, namely :-

(i) that the resignation was tendered by the Government servant for some compelling reasons which did not involve any reflection on his integrity, efficiency or conduct and the request for withdrawal of the resignation has been made as a result of a material change in the circumstances which originally compelled him to tender the resignation;

(ii) that during the period intervening between the date on which the resignation became effective and the date from which the request for withdrawal was made, the conduct of the person concerned was in no way improper;

(iii) that the period of absence from duty between the date on which the resignation became effective and the date on which the person is allowed to resume duty as a result of permission to withdraw the resignation is not more than ninety days;

(iv) that the post, which was vacated by the Government servant on the acceptance of his resignation or any other comparable post, is available;

(v) request for withdrawal of resignation shall not be accepted by the appointing authority where a Government servant resigns his service or post with a view to taking up an appointment in or under a corporation or company wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Government or in or under a body controlled or financed by the Government;

(vi) When an order is passed by the appointing authority allowing a person to withdraw his resignation and to resume duty the order shall be deemed to include the condonation of interruption in service but the period of interruption shall not count as qualifying service.”

6. Since the CCS (Pension) Rules are applicable only to holders of permanent posts, the above provisions would apply only in the case of a permanent Government servant who had resigned his post. The cases of withdrawal of resignation of permanent Government servants which involve relaxation of any of the provisions of the above rules will need the concurrence of the Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions, as per Rule 88 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.

7. Cases of quasi-permanent Government servants requesting withdrawal of resignation submitted by them would be considered by the Department of Personnel and Training on merits.

8. A Government servant who has been selected for a post in a Central Public Enterprises/Central Autonomous body may be released only after obtaining and accepting his resignation from the Government service. Resignation from Government service with a view to secure employment in a Central Public enterprise with proper permission will not entail forfeiture of the service for the purpose of retirement/terminal benefits. In such cases, the Government servant concerned shall be deemed to have retired from service from the date of such resignation and shall be eligible to receive all retirement/terminal benefits as admissible under the relevant rules applicable to him in his parent organisation.

9. In cases where Government servants apply for posts in the same or other Departments through proper channel and on selection, they are asked to resign the previous posts for administrative reasons, the benefit of past service may, if otherwise admissible under rules, be given for purposes of fixation of pay in the new post treating the resignation as a ‘technical formality’.

[Deptt. Of Personnel & Training OM No. 28034/25/87-Ests. (A) dated 11th February, 1988]

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Postal services still in demand

For 16-year-old S. Neeraja who accompanied her father to the post office at North Veli Street on Wednesday morning, the idea of sending letters or postcards by post was new. “I have an email address and so do all my friends and cousins. We also have “apps” on our phone that enables instant messaging” she explained.

She and others like her belong to a generation that depends on technology for instant communication. But the stream of people walking in and out of the post office is evidence that the postal services in the city are still relevant.

“Inland letters and postcards are still in use despite the fact that people can now just call and pass on messages. Institutions and small organizations use it to advertise their products” says a postman at the head post office.

“The dip in the use of postal services among the general public, however, can be attributed to the advent of courier services, e-mails and cell phones” he adds.

Diverse Services

The new services launched by India Post over the last few years are aimed at generating interest among the public.

To enthuse philatelists and consumers alike, India Post in Madurai launched the ‘My Stamp’ service in August which went down well with people in the city and the surrounding districts.

“We have around 400 orders from people to print personalized postage stamps since the launch. The option of printing pictures of people, historical places, wildlife and famous tourist sites as commemorative postage stamps has found favour with many” observes an official of the Madurai Philatelic Bureau.

Epost, a service offered by India Post, is being marketed as a replacement for the telegram which was ceased by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in mid-July, on grounds of non-viability.

“People who need to send urgent messages just have to write the message on an A4 Sheet which can then be scanned and mailed to the post office located at the destination of the receiver. The message will be printed out and delivered immediately to the recipient” explained an official.

The service is yet to be fully exploited. While there were some customers who made use of the service to send Diwali greetings, officials say just 50 Eposts are sent on an average every month.

“Many people are not aware of the service. The messages reach their destination in the original form, and it just costs Rs 10. The services are also offered at lower prices for bulk corporate orders” says K. Senthilvel, a postal marketing executive.

Bulk or mass mail services offered by post offices too are fast gaining popularity and used by organizations that need to send out monthly bills or advertisement pamphlets to customers.

People are required to hand in the postcards or letters to the post offices which are then stamped, put in envelopes and dispatched.

The past and present

Currently there are around 400 postmen in the district which has three head post offices.Their numbers have dwindled over the last few years.

“In the past, two or three postmen were assigned to a single area. While one postman handled ordinary letters and postcards, the other took care of money orders and parcels” says S.B. Rajamohan, divisional secretary of a union affiliated to the National Federation of Postal Employees.

“The number of letters and parcels to be delivered has decreased and only one postman is assigned to an area nowadays” he adds, pointing to the small bundles of letters being sifted for delivery.

The postmen say that the number of money orders has dropped drastically over the last decade. “With banks widening their reach, people seldom feel the need to send money and prefer to make deposits. We especially miss delivering money to families from their kith and kin and seeing the joy on their faces and being a part of something so important and personal,” Mr. Rajamohan recalls.

Once known for their financial services, the interest rates offered by post offices are lower than that of the banks, yet people in the city continue to opt for the recurring deposit savings scheme offered by the postal department.

“The network of agents operating across the district by visiting homes and collecting the money to be deposited or invested every month made the savings scheme popular. It found favour with senior citizens and people who don’t have easy access to banks” a senior official from the postal department points out.

Despite the fact that people have turned to alternative options to communicate, postmen proclaim with pride that the network and connectivity of the postal department is unparalleled.

“The district now has many new extension areas which still rely on postal services because private courier services do not make deliveries there” a retired postman indicates.

“People used to say that nobody knows an area better than the postman. While that is changing, the services offered by the postal department are still indispensable to many” he says, with conviction.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/

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Request For Proposal for Engagement of Media Agency/Agencies for Branding & Publicity of Life Insurance Products of the Department of Posts

Click Here to view the Letter of Invitation issued vide Postal Life Insurance Directorate's letter No.28-02/2013-LI , Dated: 05.11.2013

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