State News Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The 84th Sammelana was presided over by Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar.

The 84th Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya Sammelana was held at Dharwad in January 2019, with the playwright, poet and Jnanpith laureate Chandrashekhar Kambar as its president.

The other three are distinguished Kannada writers who presided over other sammelanas: Baraguru Ramachandrappa the 83rd, at Mysuru in 2017, and H.S. Venkatesh Murthy the 85th, at Kalaburagi in 2020. Siddalingaiah presided over the 81st, at Shravanabelagola in 2015.

Answer: C

Statements A, C and D are accepted, so the answer is A, C and D.

Jalamrutha, launched by the Karnataka government on 28 February 2019, is a drought-proofing programme centred on the protection and rejuvenation of water bodies (A). It is designed as a community-driven movement, relying on local participation (C), and its strategy combines water literacy, rejuvenation of water bodies, awareness about water and afforestation (D).

Statement B is wrong: the scheme was taken up by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, working through gram panchayats, not by the Water Resources Department. So the options containing B are wrong.

Answer: B

The allocation is ₹ 500 Crores.

In the 2020-21 Karnataka Budget presented on 5 March 2020, the Chief Minister set aside Rs 500 crore for the Mahadayi (Kalasa and Banduri nala) project, after the Centre notified the Mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal's award.

The other figures, Rs 505, 650 and 1500 crore, do not match the announced amount.

Answer: B

The budget size was ₹ 2,34,153 Crores.

The Karnataka Budget for 2019-20, presented by the Chief Minister in February 2019, put total expenditure at Rs 2,34,153 crore, a rise of 7.7 per cent over the 2018-19 revised estimate.

Rs 2,34,150, 2,34,200 and 2,34,500 crore are close but not the announced figure.

Answer: C

The museum is at Bellary.

The Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum was opened at Ballari (Bellary) in 2020. It is named after Robert Bruce Foote, the British geologist and archaeologist who found the first Palaeolithic tool in India in 1863 and explored the Neolithic sites of Sanganakallu near Ballari, and it displays finds from that area.

Mysuru, Dharwad and Bengaluru have important museums of their own, but this museum is at Ballari, close to the sites it presents.

Answer: B

The ICMR's National Institute for Research in Tribal Health is at Jabalpur.

The institute, formerly the Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals, was set up by the Indian Council of Medical Research in Jabalpur and renamed the National Institute for Research in Tribal Health. It studies health problems of tribal communities such as sickle cell disease, malaria and nutrition.

Bhopal, Indore and Gwalior have other ICMR and medical institutions but not this one.

Answer: C

The objective is to sensitize government officials to e-governance and IT projects, the option printed as 'To sanitize Government Officials in the implementations of e-governance and information technology projects'.

E-Daksh is the Madhya Pradesh government's capacity-building programme in information technology: training centres where government officers and employees learn to use computers and to implement e-governance projects. Its focus is on preparing officials rather than on building infrastructure. The paper's 'sanitize' is a misprint for 'sensitize'.

Setting up IT infrastructure in every district, providing internet across the state, or giving IT support to officials describe other programmes, not the purpose of E-Daksh.

Answer: B

Under 'One District One Product', the product of Seoni district is custard apple.

The One District One Product scheme picks a product for each district so that its production, processing and marketing can be promoted. Seoni, in the Satpura region where custard apple (sitaphal) grows widely in forest and farm areas, has custard apple as its product.

Orange, turmeric and ginger are products chosen for other districts of the state, not for Seoni.

Answer: D

The institute was established in 1954.

The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Research and Development Institute was set up on 20 April 1954, with its first headquarters in Chhindwara, and was moved to Bhopal later. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs' list of tribal research institutes also gives 1954 for the Madhya Pradesh institute. In 1954 the Government of India asked several states to set up such institutes under a centrally sponsored scheme.

1951, 1953 and 1956 are not the founding year, and the institute's Bhopal location came after its founding at Chhindwara.

Answer: C

The tribal museum of Madhya Pradesh is in Bhopal.

The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum, opened in 2013 on the Shyamla Hills in Bhopal, presents the life, art, crafts, beliefs and dwellings of the state's tribes, such as the Gond, Bhil, Baiga, Korku, Bharia, Sahariya and Kol, in galleries largely created by tribal artists themselves.

Indore, Ujjain and Jabalpur have other museums, but the state's tribal museum is in the capital, Bhopal, near the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya.