Agreements and MoUs Questions and Answers

Q: India signed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) with which country?

The ECTA was signed with Australia.The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement was signed in April 2022 and came into force on 29 December 2022. It removed or reduced tariffs on most goods traded between the two countries.India's agreement with the UAE, also signed in 2022, is a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), not an ECTA. India had no such agreement in force with the USA or the UK at the time.

Q: Arrange the following four Indo-US defence agreements in chronological order on the basis of year of signing of these pacts:1. Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Association (LEMOA)2. Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA)3. General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA)4. Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA)

The correct order is 3, 1, 4, 2.GSOMIA, on protecting shared military information: 2002.LEMOA, on access to each other's bases for supplies and servicing: 2016.COMCASA, on secure communications equipment: 2018, at the first 2+2 dialogue.BECA, on sharing geospatial data: 2020.These four are the 'foundational agreements' of Indo-US defence cooperation. GSOMIA came well over a decade before the others, and BECA completed the set in October 2020, so only the order beginning with GSOMIA and ending with BECA fits.

Q: Name the country with which India signed a civil nuclear co-operation agreement on 9th December 2016.

The country is Vietnam.India and Vietnam signed an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in New Delhi on 9 December 2016, during the visit of the Chairperson of Vietnam's National Assembly.The other countries do not fit that date. India's civil nuclear cooperation with Russia goes back decades, including the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu, and India signed its civil nuclear agreement with South Korea in 2011. Nepal has no nuclear power programme with which such an agreement would be made.

Q: The Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd. (TSECL) has signed Power Sale Agreements to which of the following ?

The agreements are with Mizoram and Bangladesh.TSECL sells power to Bangladesh under an agreement with NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam and the Bangladesh Power Development Board (192 MW after the 2021 supplementary agreement). It also has a power sale agreement with Mizoram, about 10.5 MW according to an ADB project document, and the two states exchange power at festival times.No comparable standing power sale agreement with Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam or Nagaland is part of the arrangement the question has in mind, and Tripura buys power from some of those neighbours rather than selling to them.

Q: With which country India signed an MoU on Ocean Dialogue ?

India signed the MoU on Ocean Dialogue with Norway.During Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg's visit to New Delhi in January 2019, the two countries signed a memorandum setting up the India-Norway Ocean Dialogue, covering the blue economy, marine pollution, fisheries and ocean energy. Norway, with its long fisheries and offshore tradition, has made ocean partnerships a central part of its foreign policy.Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden were not party to this dialogue; Switzerland is in any case landlocked.

Q: Recently, Red Fort Declaration is seen in the news is :

The Red Fort Declaration concerns the strategic partnership between India and South Africa.The Red Fort Declaration on Strategic Partnership was signed in New Delhi in March 1997 by President Nelson Mandela and Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, making South Africa India's first strategic partner. It returned to the news in early 2019, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was chief guest at the Republic Day parade and the two countries reaffirmed the partnership it began.It is a bilateral document, so it is not about BRICS as a whole, the Indian Ocean Rim Association or ASEAN; India's 2018 summit with ASEAN produced the Delhi Declaration, a different document.

Q: Which consumer electronics company has partnered with Indian start-up incubator T-Hub to support start-up ecosysten in India ?

The company is OPPO.OPPO signed a partnership with T-Hub, the Hyderabad-based start-up incubator, in 2020 to support Indian start-ups working in areas such as artificial intelligence, 5G, battery, camera and imaging technology, with mentorship and access to markets.Realme, Xiaomi and Huawei are also smartphone makers active in India, but the T-Hub tie-up was with OPPO.T-Hub was set up by the Telangana government in 2015 and is one of India's largest start-up incubators.

Q: Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) signed MoU with which Indian State to modernise its manufacturing plant ?

The state is Maharashtra.In June 2020 Great Wall Motors signed an MoU with the Maharashtra government to invest in the car plant it had acquired from General Motors at Talegaon near Pune, to modernise it into an advanced manufacturing facility.Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Punjab were not party to this agreement.The agreement was one of several signed at the state's Magnetic Maharashtra 2.0 investment event in June 2020.

Q: Which State government has signed a MoU with SIDBI, to provide market support to its 35 lakh MSMEs ?

The state is Gujarat.The Gujarat government signed an MoU with the Small Industries Development Bank of India in Gandhinagar in 2020 to give its 35 lakh micro, small and medium enterprises capacity building and market support, help with technology transfer and innovation, and support in recovering from COVID-19.Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were not party to this MoU.SIDBI is the principal financial institution for the promotion and financing of MSMEs in India.

India signed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) with which country?

A.UAE
B.Australia
C.USA
D.UK

Exam Year(s)

BPSC Exam - 2023, BPSC CDPO - 2023,

Answer: B

The ECTA was signed with Australia.

The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement was signed in April 2022 and came into force on 29 December 2022. It removed or reduced tariffs on most goods traded between the two countries.

India's agreement with the UAE, also signed in 2022, is a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), not an ECTA. India had no such agreement in force with the USA or the UK at the time.

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Arrange the following four Indo-US defence agreements in chronological order on the basis of year of signing of these pacts:

1. Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Association (LEMOA)
2. Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA)
3. General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA)
4. Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA)

A.1, 2, 3, 4
B.2, 4, 3, 1
C.3, 1, 4, 2
D.4, 2, 1, 3

Exam Year(s)

HPPSC HPAS - 2021,

Answer: C

The correct order is 3, 1, 4, 2.

GSOMIA, on protecting shared military information: 2002.
LEMOA, on access to each other's bases for supplies and servicing: 2016.
COMCASA, on secure communications equipment: 2018, at the first 2+2 dialogue.
BECA, on sharing geospatial data: 2020.

These four are the 'foundational agreements' of Indo-US defence cooperation. GSOMIA came well over a decade before the others, and BECA completed the set in October 2020, so only the order beginning with GSOMIA and ending with BECA fits.

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Name the country with which India signed a civil nuclear co-operation agreement on 9th December 2016.

A.Vietnam
B.South Korea
C.Nepal
D.Russia

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2017, TNPSC - 2017,

Answer: A

The country is Vietnam.

India and Vietnam signed an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in New Delhi on 9 December 2016, during the visit of the Chairperson of Vietnam's National Assembly.

The other countries do not fit that date. India's civil nuclear cooperation with Russia goes back decades, including the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu, and India signed its civil nuclear agreement with South Korea in 2011. Nepal has no nuclear power programme with which such an agreement would be made.

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The Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd. (TSECL) has signed Power Sale Agreements to which of the following ?

A.Mizoram and Bangladesh
B.Bangladesh and Meghalaya
C.Manipur and Assam
D.Mizoram and Nagaland

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2026,

Answer: A

The agreements are with Mizoram and Bangladesh.

TSECL sells power to Bangladesh under an agreement with NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam and the Bangladesh Power Development Board (192 MW after the 2021 supplementary agreement). It also has a power sale agreement with Mizoram, about 10.5 MW according to an ADB project document, and the two states exchange power at festival times.

No comparable standing power sale agreement with Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam or Nagaland is part of the arrangement the question has in mind, and Tripura buys power from some of those neighbours rather than selling to them.

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With which country India signed an MOU on combating illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and its precursors ?

A.Thailand
B.Morocco
C.South Korea
D.Indonesia

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

The country with which India signed the MoU on illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, in the news at the time, was Indonesia.

The Union Cabinet approved the signing of this MoU with Indonesia in March 2019. It provides for exchange of information, controlled deliveries and cooperation against money laundering, for five years from signing.

India's similar agreement with Thailand dates from 2017, so it is not the recent one, and the key gives Indonesia.

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With which country India signed an MoU on Ocean Dialogue ?

A.Denmark
B.Switzerland
C.Sweden
D.Norway

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

India signed the MoU on Ocean Dialogue with Norway.

During Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg's visit to New Delhi in January 2019, the two countries signed a memorandum setting up the India-Norway Ocean Dialogue, covering the blue economy, marine pollution, fisheries and ocean energy. Norway, with its long fisheries and offshore tradition, has made ocean partnerships a central part of its foreign policy.

Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden were not party to this dialogue; Switzerland is in any case landlocked.

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Recently, Red Fort Declaration is seen in the news is :

A.to increase the economic cooperation among the BRICS Nations.
B.to encourage Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean Region by Indian Ocean Rim Association
C.to enhance India's economic cooperation with Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN)
D.to enhance the strategic partnership between India and South Africa.

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

The Red Fort Declaration concerns the strategic partnership between India and South Africa.

The Red Fort Declaration on Strategic Partnership was signed in New Delhi in March 1997 by President Nelson Mandela and Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, making South Africa India's first strategic partner. It returned to the news in early 2019, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was chief guest at the Republic Day parade and the two countries reaffirmed the partnership it began.

It is a bilateral document, so it is not about BRICS as a whole, the Indian Ocean Rim Association or ASEAN; India's 2018 summit with ASEAN produced the Delhi Declaration, a different document.

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Which consumer electronics company has partnered with Indian start-up incubator T-Hub to support start-up ecosysten in India ?

A.Realme
B.OPPO
C.Xiaomi
D.Huawei

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2021,

Answer: B

The company is OPPO.

OPPO signed a partnership with T-Hub, the Hyderabad-based start-up incubator, in 2020 to support Indian start-ups working in areas such as artificial intelligence, 5G, battery, camera and imaging technology, with mentorship and access to markets.

Realme, Xiaomi and Huawei are also smartphone makers active in India, but the T-Hub tie-up was with OPPO.

T-Hub was set up by the Telangana government in 2015 and is one of India's largest start-up incubators.

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Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) signed MoU with which Indian State to modernise its manufacturing plant ?

A.Tamil Nadu
B.Maharashtra
C.Gujarat
D.Punjab

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2021,

Answer: B

The state is Maharashtra.

In June 2020 Great Wall Motors signed an MoU with the Maharashtra government to invest in the car plant it had acquired from General Motors at Talegaon near Pune, to modernise it into an advanced manufacturing facility.

Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Punjab were not party to this agreement.

The agreement was one of several signed at the state's Magnetic Maharashtra 2.0 investment event in June 2020.

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Which State government has signed a MoU with SIDBI, to provide market support to its 35 lakh MSMEs ?

A.Tamil Nadu
B.Gujarat
C.Andhra Pradesh
D.Uttar Pradesh

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2021,

Answer: B

The state is Gujarat.

The Gujarat government signed an MoU with the Small Industries Development Bank of India in Gandhinagar in 2020 to give its 35 lakh micro, small and medium enterprises capacity building and market support, help with technology transfer and innovation, and support in recovering from COVID-19.

Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were not party to this MoU.

SIDBI is the principal financial institution for the promotion and financing of MSMEs in India.

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