Time 3 hrs marks 300. All questions compulsory
1. Answer any two
of the following (150 words) : 15x2=30
(a) Discuss the
major irritants in Indo-China relations and highlight the latest moves to overcome
these
(b) How did U.S. respond to the problem of Cross-border terrorism in the State
of Jammu and Kashmir after the Kaluchak events?
(c) Account for India’s opposition to CTBT.
2. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) Explain India’s
stand on LTTE.
(b) What does ‘Gujral doctrine’ stand for?
(c) How does India benefit from good neighbourly relations with Bangladesh?
(d) What do you know about ‘Pinaka’?
(e) Explain India’s ‘No first Use’ policy in context of Nuclear
weapons.
3. Answer the following (about 20 words each) : 2x5=10
(a) What are the
problems NRIs have to face if they decide to settle in India?
(b) What was India Millenium Deposit Scheme?
(c) What has been the impact of Gulf remittances on India’s economy?
(d) Name the nodal agency to deal with issues relating to Indians abroad and
explain its main task.
(e) What is the distinction between NRI and ‘People of India origin’.
4. Answer any one
of the following (about 250 words) : 30
(a) Outline the
main targets fixed in the National Population policy 2000. What have been the
follow up measures to this policy?
(b) The main thrust of the EXIM Policy 2002-07 is on creating a framework for
enhancing India’s export capability. In the light of this statement outline
the salient features of EXIM Policy 2002-07.
5. Answer any two of the following (about 150 words) : 15x2=30
(a) What are ‘Minimum
Support Prices’ in agricultural products? What are their objectives?
(b) Outline the main objectives and achievements of the ploicy of disinvestment
in India?
(c) With what objectives was ‘Essential Commodities Act 1955’ amended
last year?
6. Answer the following
( about 20 words) 2x15=30
(a) What is the
peak rate of Custom duty? What are its objectives in India?
(b) Define fiscal deficit.
(c) Explain the provision of OGL.
(d) Elucidate ‘Special Economic Zones’
(e) Highlight the salien feature of ‘National Highway Development Project’
(f) What is the role of SEBI
(g) Explain RBI’s Automatic Route in FDIs.
(h) With what objectives was the ‘Annapurna’ scheme launched?
(i) Elucidate ‘Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana’
(j) The union budget 2002-03 recommended some servi ces to be taxed. Name any
4 of these services.
(k) What is dumping? What is its objective?
(l) What do you understand by ‘Capital account Convertibility’ of
Rupee?
(m) Define Sex ration in the population of India. What is its present status?
(n) Distinguish between ad-valorem and specific duties.
(o) Define zero-based budget.
7. Answer any two
of the following (about 150 words) : 15x2=30
(a) Highlight the
main points of Nuclear Disarmament treaty signed by US President George Bush
and Russian Prez Vladimir Putin in May 2002.
(b) Outline the features of latest Saudi Peace Plan for West Asia Crisis and
assess its importance.
(c) “NAM is relevant in Unipolar Worls as well”. Comment.
8. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) What do the
following stand for ?
(i) WCAR
(ii) SPDC
(iii) INTERPOL
(iv) WIPO
(b) Why was Bander Seri Begawan in news recently?
(c) Who is Xanana Gusmao?
(d) What do you mean by Uni-polar world?
(e) What do you know about the North-South dialogue?
9. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) What do the
following stand for?
(i) UNCHR
(ii) UNIDO
(iii) WTO
(iv) MIGA
(b) What is meant by AU?
(c) Explain U.S. stand on the proposal for establishing an International Crime
Court
(d) What is the main purpose of G-15?
(e) Why is SAFTA being mooted?
10. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words) : 30
(a) Plastic hazards
– Discuss.
(b) Discuss in detail “The internet telephony as an alternative”.
11. Answer any two of the following (150 words) 15x2=30
(a) What are the
fundamental constants and their use in measurement system?
(b) Discuss about ‘Environment’, its components and its awareness.
(c) What is Human Cloning? Is it dangerous or beneficial? Discuss.
12. Answer the following (about 20 words) : 2x5=10
(a) What is digital
camera?
(b) What is firewall in computer language?
(c) What is multimedia?
(d) What do the following stand for?
(i) HTML
(ii) FTP
(iii) MFLOPS
(iv) PLANIT
(e) What is Piracy?
13. Answer the following: 2x8=16
(a) The figures
below give the revenue expenditure in U.P> on education in crore of rupees
for the last 3 years :
Particulars Expenditure
(crore Rs.)
1998-99 99-00 00-01
Primary Education 68.00 78.00 118.00
Secondary Education 40 45 74
Special Education 30 35 45
University and Higher Education 50 52 56
Technical Education 35 38 42
Sports and Youth Welfare 20 22 30
Represent the above
information by suitable diagram.
(b) Represent the
following data by frequency polygon :
Weekly Wages (Rs.)
No. of workers
0-10 10
10-20 15
20-40 18
40-70 60
70-100 45
100-120 40
120-150 30
14. Answer the
following
(a) The life of
2 models A & B of refrigrators in a recent survey is tabulated as follows
:
Life (no. of years)
Model A Model B
0-2 5 2
2-4 16 7
4-6 13 12
6-8 7 19
8-10 5 9
10-12 4 1
(i) What is the
average life of each model of these refrigrators?
(ii) Which model shows more uniformity?
2+6=8
(b) The following table shows the distribution of 100 families according to
their expenditure per week. Number of families corresponding to the expenditure
groups Rs. (10-20) and Rs. (30-40) are missing from the table. The median and
mode for the distribution are Rs. 25 and Rs. 24 respectively. Calculate the
missing frequencies :
Expenditure (Rs.) No. of families
0-10 14
10-20 -
20-30 27
30-40 -
40-50 15
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15. Answer the
following :
(a) The average
rainfall of a certain place for Monday to Saturday is 15 inches. Due to heavy
rainfall on Sunday, the average rainfall of the week rose to 25 inches. How
much rainfall was there on Sunday?
(b) The following are the info pertaining to employees of a factory :
Total no. of employees
100
Avg. salary of all employees Rs. 5000
Avg. salary of male employees Rs. 5200
Avg. salary of female employees Rs. 4200
What is the no.
of male and female employees?
(c) If each calue
in a sample size of 15 is multiplied by 10, then whether the mean will be changed,
justify your answer. What will happen to the mean if 12 is subtracted from each
value?
(d) A person owns 2 companies A & B. He invested Rs. 10 Lakh to establish
Co. A and Rs. 10 crore to establish Co. B. The average profits earned from both
the companies are the same. Which of the 2 companies is better from profit earning
point view? Justify your answer.
