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PART-II M.A. IN GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR

Duration: 1 Hour INSTRUCTIONS Please read the following carefully before making an attempt to take the Test. 1. 2. 3. Marks: 50

This booklet contains 8 pages including the blank ones. As soon as you open the
booklet, please confirm that all the pages are intact and printed correctly.

This paper contains 50 questions. Keep only the Admit Card, pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT keep with
you books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watch calculators), pagers, cellular phones, or any other device.

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Fill up all the details, as indicated on top of the TEST BOOKLET and OMR Sheet. Enter correctly your Registration No. both on the TEST BOOKLET and OMR Sheet. Shade the appropriate oval against each question in the OMR sheet. Shade the oval
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Use HB Pencils only to shade the oval. Do all rough work on the test booklet only and NOT on the OMR sheet. No extra sheet
to be used for the rough work.

Follow the instructions of the Invigilator. Candidates refusing to comply with the
instructions will be expelled from the test.

10. Ensure that you have signed against your name on the attendance sheet circulated by the Invigilator. 11. At the end of the test, remain seated. Do not head off from the hall till the Invigilator announces, You may leave now. The invigilator will make the announcement only after collecting the test booklets and OMR sheets from everyone in the room. 12. There is no negative mark for wrong answers. ANY CANDIDATE PROVIDING / SEEKING / RECEIVING ASSISTANCE OR FOUND COPYING WILL BE INSTANTLY DEBARRED FROM THE TEST.
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Who is head of World Trade Organisation? a) M. Kamal Nath b) Nandita Devidayal c) Pascal Lamy d) None of the above Who is winner of recently held Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix? a) Sebastian Vettel b) Felipe Massa c) Fernando Alonso d) Michael Schumacher How many member states are there in Commonwealth Nations? a) 59 b) 54 c) 62 d) 50 Which of the following is the administrative capital of European Union? a) Belgium city b) Barcelona c) Brussels d) Lisbon Which one of the following has the B.K. Chaturvedi Committee dealt with? a) Review of Centre-States relations b) Review of Delimitation Act c) Tax reforms and measures to increase revenues d) Price-reforms in the oil sector During the freedom struggle, Aruna Asaf Ali was a major organiser of underground activity a) Civil Disobedience Movement b) Non-Cooperation Movement c) Quit India Movement d) Swadeshi Movement Who of the following is the author of the book The Idea of Justice? a) B.R.Ambedkar b) John Rawls c) Martin Luther King Jr d) Amartya Sen Which one of the following cities is the seat of Parliament of South Africa? a) Pretoria b) Durban c) Johannesburg d) Cape Town
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The purchasing power of peoples incomes is most affected by a) The inflation rate b) The trade deficit c) The balance of payments d) Fiscal policy

10) Economic growth of a country is measured by a positive change in which of the following? a) The money supply b) The Producer Price Index c) The Gross Domestic Product d) The balance of payments 11) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was founded in the year a) 1920 b) 1988 c) 1948 d) 1945 12) Which of the following reason is not part of criticism/reason of opposition to the World Trade Organisation (WTO): a) WTO is too powerful and can compel sovereign states to change laws and regulations in favor of free trade b) WTO is run by the rich for the rich and does not bother about poor and developing countries c) WTO is in favour of promoting workers right, child labour, environment and health d) WTO lacks democratic accountability 13) What is the Kyoto Protocol? a) A protocol to promote the rights of workers b) A protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aimed at fighting global warming c) A protocol to promote fair trade d) A protocol to promote decent work 14) When is the international womens day celebrated? a) 11th of March b) 1st of March c) 2nd March d) 8th March 15) Pink ribbon is international symbol associated with a) AIDS b) Breast Cancer c) Hepatitis d) Blood donation

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16) Who is the Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO)? a) Pascal Lamy b) Juan Somavia c) Dominique Strauss Kahn d) Kofi Annan 17) A joint ILO-IMF conference was held in September, 2010. Where was the conference held? a) Davos b) Cannes c) Turin d) Oslo 18) Who among the following were the official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission? a) M.K. Gandhi and Sardar Patel b) Acharya J.B.Kripalani and C.Rajagopalachari c) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azad d) Dr Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai 19) In India, which of the following is regulated by the Forward Markets Commission? a) Currency Futures Trading b) Commodities Futures Trading c) Equity Futures Trading d) Both Commodities Futures and Financial Futures Trading 20) Among the following, who was not a proponent of bhakti cult? a) Nagarjuna b) Tukaram c) Tyagraja d) Vallabhacharya 21) Which of the following reflects back more sunlight as compared to other three? a) Sand desert b) Paddy crop land c) Grass land d) Land covered with fresh snow 22) Which one of the following is responsible for the preparation and presentation of Union Budget to the Parliament? a) Department of Revenue b) Department of Economic Affairs c) Department of Financial Services d) Department of Expenditure 23) Khap Panchayats have been in news recently, what is a Khap? a) Caste b) Cluster of villages united by caste and geography c) Group of older Men d) Settlement
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In the Human Development Index ranking 2009, India is placed at which position? a) 100 b) 128 c) 199 d) 134

25) A recent report submitted on poverty in India, estimates about 38 per cent population below poverty line (BPL), this report is also known as a) Arjun Sengupta Report b) Joseph Stiglitz Report c) Prabhat Patnaik Report d) S.D.Tendulkar Report 26) What is TRYSEM related to? a) Terrorism Related Youth and Self Trial b) Training and Rural Guarantee Scheme c) Training Rural Youth for Self Employment d) Training for preventing youth to enter into terrorist related activities 27) What is NRHM policy? a) National Rural Household Migration b) National Regional Housing Manual c) National Rural Health Mission d) National Rural Housing Mission 28) Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the Folk Society? a) It is small, isolated, non literate b) The sacred prevails over the secular c) The economy is one of the status rather than of the market d) The status is achieved one 29) Which of the following groups is best classified by the feature of an in-group? a) Primary Group b) Secondary Group c) Tertiary Group d) Reference Group 30) Under which of the following articles of the Constitution of India does the state provide equal justice and free legal aid? a) b) c) d) Article 38 Article 39 Article 39A Article 41

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31) Which one of the following thinkers proposed the criterion of falsification as the measure of scientific truth? a) Levi Strauss b) Max Weber c) Karl Popper d) Karl Marx 32) Which one of the following political philosophers is an advocate of positive liberty? a) Isaih Berlin b) Iris Marion Young c) John Stuart Mill d) T.H. Green 33) Which one of the following was not identified by G. Almond as a stage of conversion process of a political system? a) Interest articulation b) Interest aggregation c) Political recruitment d) Role adjudication 34) Which one of the following judgments stated that secularism and federalism are the basic features of the Indian Constitution? a) Keshavananda Bharti Case b) S.R. Bommai Case c) Indira Sawhney Case d) Minerva Mills Case 35) The Supreme Court has increased the ambit of the Right to life (Article 21) to include which of the following? 1. Right to life includes the Right to live with livelihood 2. Right to life includes the Right to dignity 3. Right to life includes the Right to receive guaranteed employment for 100 days in a year 4. Right to life includes the Right to receive minimum wages Select the correct answer using the combinations given below: a) 4 only b) 1 and 2 only c) 1, 2 and 3 only d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 36) Which Supreme Court Judge played a pivotal role in the introduction of Public Interest Litigation? a) Justice A.N.Ray b) Justice K. S. Hegde c) Justice S.Sorabjee d) Justice P. N. Bhagwati
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37) Who of the following is associated with Jharkhand Movement? a) Sundarlal Bahuguna b) Medha Patkar c) Aruna Roy d) Jaipal Singh 38) Jhum cultivation by cutting and burning trees is in practice by indigenous tribes in a) Karnataka b) North-Eastern States c) Orissa d) Jammu and Kashmir 39) Crisis of distribution referred to in the context of poverty alleviation indicates a) Problem of distribution of fruits of development b) Improper distribution of spoils of power c) Inadequate resources to meet the needs of the country d) Injudicious distribution of financial aid to the poor 40) The policy of protective discrimination seeks to promote: a) Formal equality b) Substantive equality c) Inequality d) Meritocracy 41) Who is Union Minister of Labour and employment? a) Shri Mallikarjun Kharge b) Shri G.K. Vasan c) Shri Harish Rawat d) None of the above 42) The Plantation Labour (Amendment) Bill 2008 addressed only following issue/issues. a) prohibit children below 14 years from being employed in plantations b) The employer shall compensate a worker in case of an accident. c) Workers who are exposed to insecticides and chemicals shall be periodically medically examined in the prescribed manner. d) All of the above 43) Who is the chairperson of Labour Committtee under Lok Sabha? a) Hemanand Biswal b) T. R. Baalu c) Dara Singh Chauhan d) None of the above 44) Dr. Ambedkar in his work Thoughts on Linguistic states proposes a) One state, one language b) One language, one state c) All people in the state must speak one language d) None of the above
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45) The Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Act was passed in the year a) 2007 b) 2008 c) 2009 d) 2010 46) Labour is subject of a) State b) Union c) Concurrent list / joint subject of state & union d) None of the above 47) Which country has not ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 and Minimum Age Convention, 1973 a) India b) Pakistan c) Sri Lanka d) Nepal 48) India is ranked by US government in which of the following tiers on Traffic in Person 2010 a) Tier 1 b) Tier 2 c) Tier 2 Watch list d) Tier 3 49) Right Against Exploitation a fundamental rights given under following Articles of Constitution of India a) Articles 23 and 24 b) Article 19 and 20 c) Article 14 and 16 d) Article 29 and 30 50) Who was founder of Independent Labour Party in India a) M.K. Gandhi b) B.R.Ambedkar c) Balagangadhar Tilak d) M.N.Roy

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