FOR PA/SA EXAM - INDIAN HISTORY OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. The youngest Prime Minister of India:

Ans. Rajiv Gandhi

2. The first Indian Prime Minister to get Bharat Ratna:

Ans. Jawaharlal Nehru

3. The Indian prime minister who signed on Shimla Pact:

Ans. Indira Gandhi

4. The Prime Minister of India when India made its nuclear explosion:

Ans. Indira Gandhi

5. The first non-congress Prime Minister of India to complete tenure:

Ans. A.B Vajpayee

6. In which year Indira Gandhi nationalized banks?

Ans. 1969

7. Indira Gandhi abolished privy purses through the ……….th amendment of the constitution.

Ans. 26

8. Which slogan was given by Indira Gandhi?

Ans. Garibi Hatao

9. Which country was formed with the support of Indira Gandhi in 1971?

Ans. Bangladesh

10. Which of the following events as happened during the period of Indira Gandhi?

Ans. Bhopal Gas tragedy of 1984

11. Morarji Dasai started his official career as:

Ans. Deputy Collector

12. Morarji Dasai was the Prime Minister of India when ‘Right to Property’ was deleted from Fundamental Rights through the …………… amendment of the Constitution:

Ans. 44

13. Morarji Desai is the first Indian prime minister whose resting place is outside Delhi. His Samadhi is at:

Ans. Ahmadabad

14. The prime minister who re-established the tenure of LokSabha from six years to five years:

Ans. Morarji Desai

15. First non-congress prime minister sto get Bharat Ratna:

Ans. Morarji Desai

16. Which was introduced for the first time during the period of Rajiv Gandhi?

Ans. Navodaya Vidhyalaya

17. Rajiv Gandhi announced new education Policy in …………….

Ans. 1986

18. The first person to become PM of India without any previous experience of holding the post of minister in centre or state.

Ans. Rajiv Gandhi

19. The finance minister who resigned during the period of Rajiv Gandhi:

Ans. VP Singh

20. Anti Defection Law came into force in:

Ans. 1985

21. First Asian Games was held in 1951 in:

Ans. New Delhi

22. The venue of the first international Film Festival of Indiaheld in 1952:

Ans. Mumbai

23. STD was introduced for the first time in India between Kanpur and Lucknow in:

Ans. 1960

24. The first ISD line was established between Mumbai and ……………. In 1976.

Ans. London

25. Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian State ?

Ans. Sarojini Naidu

26. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna ?

Ans. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

27. Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi has distinguished herself in the field of..........

Ans. Vocal Music

28. Which of the following is not correctly matched ?

Ans. M.F. Hussain–Tabla

29. Who said, “You give me blood, I will give you freedom” ?

Ans. Subhash Chandra Bose

30. Nobel Prizes are not given for which of the following fields ?

Ans. Music

31. When is the ‘International Women’s Day’ observed ?

Ans. March 8

32. Indra Nooyi is the Chief Executive Officer of which company ?

Ans. Pepsi

33. The 2008 Olympics will be held in.........

Ans. Beijing

34. 6th April, 1930 is well known in the history of India because this date is associated with ……

Ans. Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi

35. The concept of ‘Din-e-Elahi’ was founded by which king ?

Ans. Akbar

36. The central point in Ashoka’s Dharma was.........

Ans. Religious toleration

37. ‘Do or Die’ was one of the most powerful slogans of India’s freedom struggle. Who gave it ?

Ans. Gandhiji

38. Who among the following formed a party named as ‘Forward Block’ ?

Ans. Subhash Chandra Bose

39. Jaspal Rana is a distinguished athlete in which of the following games ?

Ans. Shooting

40. ‘The Dronacharya Award’ is associated with.........

Ans. Sport Coaches

41. The author of ‘Gitagovinda’ was...........

Ans. Jayadeva

42. Who wrote the book ‘India Wins Freedom’ ?

Ans. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

43. Baba Amte is famous as a ………

Ans. Social Worker

44. Where are the Dilwara Temple’s located ?

Ans. Mt. Abu

45. Who was the first Indian lady to preside over the Congress ?

Ans. Annie Besant

46. In India, there are three crop seasons. Two of them are Kharif and Rabi, name the third one ?

Ans. Zaid

47. In India agriculture of jute is maximum on which Delta area ?

Ans. Ganga

48. The most discussed Tehri Dam Project is located in which of the following States ?

Ans. Uttarakhand

49. Mahatma Gandhi for the first time practised his Satyagraha in India at..........

Ans. Champaran

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Upgradation Procedure of Update 3 to Meghdoot 7.0

 Please upgrade the applications in the following order:(Manual upgradation) or Use Installer Application from Update 3 CD

Please ensure u have take back up of all data base, MDB and Day end is over in all modules.After that do up gradation in the following order 

1.                         eMO
2.                         ePayment
3.                         Point of Sale
4.                         Despatch
5.                         Sub Accounts
6.                         Treasury
7.                         Postman
8.                         AccountsMIS
9.                         R Net Communication
10.                         MO Compilation
11.                         Accounts
12.                         AccountsPBS 

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Update 3 to Meghdoot 7.0 released

Update 3 to Meghdoot 7.0 released

 Center for Excellence in Postal Technology is constantly making efforts to bring in comfort at Post offices in implementing various Departmental software. 

            The expectations of the customers are rapidly changing.  To meet the changing requirements of the customers Department is making efforts to upgrade the existing products or introducing new products.    This update takes care of all the upgrades and new products being introduced by the Department.

            The most salient features of this update are

i).    Customized installer for upgrading Meghdoot to update-3.

ii).   Online acceptance of fee for entrance examination.

iii). Disabling booking of Registered letters without barcode.

iv). Offline booking of WNX articles.

v).   e-Money order Compilation

vi). MNOP implementation in Rnet.

Detailed information is furnished below about each change implemented in the software.

                       

General Manager,

Center for Excellence in Postal Technology,

Mysore.

http://cept.gov.in

support@ceptmysore.net

Detailed information about each change implemented in the software

Reason for release:  Update-3 to Meghdoot 7.0 is being released in order to implement major changes in most of  the Meghdoot modules besides provision of some other minor changes and  rectifying the erros/bugs brought to the notice of CEPT till now.

Who has to Upgrade:  Update-3 has to be implemented by all the Computerized Post Offices in the Country.

Pre-requisite:  Update-1 to  Meghdoot version 7.0 released by CEPT on 05.12.2011.

Location to download the Software:   ftp://ftp.ptcinfo.org/Meghdoot7/Updates/Update-3/

Detailed Release document containing Installation procedure and the modifications done in each module is also available the release document.   The Software containing UPDATE-3 TO MEGHDOOT 7.0 can be downloaded from 15.09.2012.

Module wise major modifications

Module	Changes made to the Software	Improvement in Operations/Service
Point of Sale	Booking of Offline WNX Transactions	Hitherto,  WNX server needs to be connected for every event of booking process.  This offline booking reduces the transaction time at counter considerably.
	VP booking facility for the Registered Newspaper	Booking of Registered Newspaper with VP facility is introduced, which was not available earlier.
	PLI/RPLI validations prescribed by PLI Directorate, at the time of booking	Due to these validations, data mis-match between the NIC PLI data file and Meghdoot can be reduced considerably.
Despatch	Closing of more than one bag to the same destination in same despatch	Till now, only one bag can be closed in Despatch module to a particular destination Post Office in a single despatch. This is relaxed.
	Implementation of MNOP concept for the Rigistered Bags	Post Offices can close bags only to the L1/L2 Mail Offices, as per the MNOP concept.
Postman	All Delivery related options for  Speed Post Cash on Delivery articles.   The product is yet to be launched.	Facilitates delivery/despatch of SPCOD articles through Post office and its attached BOs.
	Bag Receipt and Bag Opening Options for Registered Bags	Facilitates capturing the Bag receipt and Bag opening scan as required for MNOP review on RNet
	Transmission of data of eVP articles to RNet server	Facilitates complete tracking of eVP articles through RNet website.
MO Compilation	eMO Compilation options provided	eMO Compilation options introduced with this release automates the process of submitting Issue/paid returns to DA(P).
eMO	Flushing of old Bulk payee data in addition to    flushing of Booking data to backup database	This enhances the performance of eMO module operation especially in  bigger offices where Bulk Booking and Bulk Delivery is happening.  It is ensured that even after flushing the old data, the reports for the older dates can be seen as usual.
	Capturing the data of eMO Compilation and transmission to Central Server	Facilitates cross checking of eMO compilation figures received from Head Offices
ePayemnt	Collection of Examination Fee	New service for Collection of online Examination Fee introduced
	Speed Post Cash on Delivery data transmission. articles.   The product is yet to be launched.	Transmission SPCOD articles data from the Office of Delivery to Office of payment for effecting payment through Treasury.
Treasury	Capturing the Western Union Transaction Data	Provision to feed data of individual WUIMT transactions, so as to transmit the data through AccountsMIS application for consolidated figures at central server
	Provision for Speed Post Cash on Delivery Payment .  .   The product is yet to be launched.	Facilitates payment of SPCOD delivered amount
Accounts	Calculation of Income Tax as per new rates
Schedules	PLI/RPLI validations prescribed by PLI Directorate, at the time of data entry by Schedules Clerk.	Due to these validations, data mis-match between the NIC PLI data file and Meghdoot can be reduced considerably.
AccountsMIS (DET)	Identification of offices doing fake reporting .	Post Offices cannot resort to transmit duplicate DET data.
	Capturing the Western Union Money Order Transactions	Creation of a separate file with individual transactions of WUMT transactions and transmission of the same to Central Server for centralized pairing.
Installer Application	New Application to upgrade all the modules of Update-3	Automates the up-gradation process of all the applications in a particular system

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