Arts (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Initially, HYVP was implemented in about ______.

Which among the following is a process that involves the assembling, storage, processing, transportation, packaging, grading, and distribution of different agricultural commodities across the country?

What is the name of the vegetable and fruit market in Andhra Pradesh?

Why is the minimum support price fixed by the government?

Agriculture marketing does not comprise of ______.

Identify which of the following is not an example of ‘invisible item’ under Current Account of the Balance of Payments transactions:

Under the Balance of Payments structure of a nation, the two main categories of accounts for the classification of the transactions are ____________ and ____________.

i. current account

ii. unilateral transfer account

iii. capital account

iv. loan account

Identify the correct alternatives from the following:

____________ is the portion of agricultural produce which is sold in the market by the farmers, after meeting their self-consumption requirements.

Before the advent of the Green Revolution in the 1960s, India was primarily dependent on ____________ for the supply of food grains.

Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct alternatives given below:

Statement 1 - Subsidies do not add any burden on the financial health of a nation.

Statement 2 - Complete removal of subsidies may violate the aim of equitable distribution of income.

Prior to India's independence, the stagnation in the agricultural sector was mainly caused by ____________.

Read the following statements - Assertion (A) and Reason (R):

Assertion (A) - Major policy initiatives (land reforms and Green Revolution) helped India to become self-sufficient in food grains production.

Reason(R) - The proportion of people depending on agriculture did not decline as expected after the Green Revolution.

From the given alternatives choose the correct one:

In equation C = a + by, the value of b lies between ______.

Money on wings indicates ______.

Final goods refer to those goods which are used either for ______ or for ______.

Which of the following is not an indicator of human development?

Work participation rate is:

Female worker participation rate is:

Read the following hypothetical text and answer the given question:

The performance of Indian economy during the period of first seven five year plans (1950-1990) was satisfactory if not very impressive. On the eve of independence, India was an industrially backward country, but during this period of first seven plans our industries became far more diversified, with the stress being laid on the public investments in the industrial sector. The policy of import substitution led to protection of the domestic industries against the foreign producers but we failed to promote a strong export surplus. Although public sector expanded to a large extent but it could not bring desired level of improvement in the secondary sector. Excessive government regulations prevented the natural trajectory of growth of entrepreneurship as there was no competition, no innovation and no modernization on the front of the industrial sector. Many Public Sector Undertakings (PSU’s) incurred huge losses due to operational inefficiencies, red-tapism, poor technology and other similar reasons. These PSU’s continued to function because it was difficult to close a government undertaking even it is a drain on country’s limited resources. On the Agricultural front, due to the measures taken under the Green Revolution, India more or less became self-sufficient in the production of food grains. So the needs for reform of economic policy was widely felt in the context of changing global economic scenario to achieve desired growth in the country.

State whether the given statement is true or false:

Mechanization of the Indian agriculture was one of thecause of Green Revolution in India.

Read the following statements carefully:

Statement 1: The consumption curve is an upward sloping straight line curve due to the direct relationship between income and consumption and the assumption of constant Marginal Propensity to Consume.

Statement 2: Aggregate Demand curve and Consumption curve are parallel to each other.

In the light of the given statements, choose the correct alternative from the following: