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GENERAL STUDIES
Full Marks:300
Time:3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
1. Answer any ten questions from the following in about 250 words each: 10*10=100
(a) What is recession? Could the US recession bog down Indian economy?
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(b) What are the alternative fuels available for the transport sector? Discuss their
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(d) Half a century after the launch of the notorious morning sickness pill,
thalidomide, its surviving victims are demanding compensation. Explain why
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compensation is to be given.
(e) What are the salient features of the Government of India Acts of 1858 and 1909?
(f) Discuss the significance of the deal in which Tata Motors bought Jaguar and Land
Rover from automobile giant, Ford.
(g) What is the composition of the Rajya Sabha? How are the members elected?
(h) Describe how the two parties in the USA select their presidential candidates.
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(j) What was the character of social religious reforms in the 19th Century and how
did they contribute to the national awakening in India?
(l) Why is Nandigram in the news? Discuss the handling of Nandigram incidents by
the Left Front Government of West Bengal.
(o) What are the salient features of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal? Why is there
opposition to it?
2. Answer any five questions from the following in about 200 word each: 8*5=40
(a) What is SEZ? Why are some people raising objections against it?
(b) Discuss the main features of the 2008-2009 Annual Budget of India.
(e) On what day, the World Environment Day is observed? Discuss how it all started.
3. Answer any ten questions from the following in about 150 words each: 6*10=60
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(a) The Monisena Commission of Enquiry has recently submitted its report. What are
the main findings of the Commission?
(d) Technological changes have brought in a major shift in the use of roads as
transport corridors in India. Do you agree with this view?
(e) Under what circumstances, financial emergency can be declared under the Article
360 of the Constitution of India?
(f) What are the exceptions when the President of India is not bound by the aid and
advice of the Council of Ministers?
(g) Explain the phenomenon of ozone depletion, its causes and effects.What efforts
are needed to reduce it?
(h) Explain how the Himalayan and the Tibetan highlands play an important role in
the development of the South-West monsoon.
(i) Explain the nature and causes of growing slum problems in the metropolitan
cities of India.
(k) What is regionalism? In which way, regionalism has affected the Indian polity?
(n) Explain the importance of water resources and the means of conservation.
(o) What is the role of 'Sepoy Mutiny' in giving shapr to India's Struggle for
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Independence?
4. Write briefly about any fifteen of the following in about 30 words each: 2*15=30
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