- Recently which state government will develop eight hundred kilometers of road as herbal road?
a. Bihar
b. Punjab
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Karnataka
ANSWER: c. Uttar Pradesh
Government of Uttar Pradesh will develop eight hundred kilometers of road as herbal road. There will be medicinal, herbal trees on both sides of these roads. On these herbal roads, there will be trees, neem, and drumstick trees including Brahmmi, Ashwagandha and Jatropha.
- Which state government recently said that it will soon start a project to maintain the health database of all its citizens through ‘State Health Register’?
a. Karnataka
b. Bihar
c. Jharkhand
d. Delhi
ANSWER: a. Karnataka
Karnataka government recently said that it will soon start a project to maintain the health database of all its citizens through the ‘State Health Register’. This will be the first project of its kind. The state health register will contain solid and standardized information about the health of all citizens. This project will be implemented in Chikkaballapur district first on experimental basis.
- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of how many million dollars to improve 450 km of state highways and major district roads in Maharashtra?
a. 40.7 million dollars
b. $ 80.7 million
c. 95.05 million dollars
d. $ 177 million
ANSWER: d. $ 177 million
These roads include 11 state highways located in seven districts. Under this loan, the employees of the Public Works Department of the State Government will be trained to prepare special designs to protect the roads from natural disasters and to take care of these roads in times of disaster. This agreement will help in strengthening the road connectivity in rural and urban areas in the state. These projects will improve connectivity between rural areas and urban centers of the state. With this, rural communities will get better markets, employment opportunities and services.
- S&P Global Ratings forecast which country’s GDP growth to decline by 5 percent in FY 2021?
a. Nepal
b. China
c. India
d. Russia
ANSWER: c.
This reduction in India’s growth rate is due to the slowdown in economic activity across the country in the lockdown imposed to stop the Kovid-19 epidemic. A statement by S&P Global Ratings said that the economy has suffered a sudden decline due to the two-month lockdown, which has led to this decline in the GDP growth rate of the current financial year.
- Which president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has been appointed as a member of the Olympic Channel Commission?
a. Narinder Batra
b. Jitendra Singh
c. Abhay Singh Chautala
d. Narayan Ramachandran
ANSWER: a. Narinder Batra
Narinder Batra became IOC member in June last year. The Olympic Channel Commission advises the IOC Session, the IOC Executive Board and the IOC Chairman and also guides the launch and operation of the Olympic Channel. Narinder Batra was earlier President of Hockey India from 2014-2016 and President of Asian Hockey Federation from 2003-2013.
