Answers Key UPSC Civil Services Exam Prelims 2018

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog, following are suggested answers of Civil Services Prelim exams 2018 with Explanation.

General Studies - I

Set C

1. (b) 3-2-1-4

Democratically - Kerala - 1957
Rename of SBI - 1955
Air India - 1953
Goa - 1961/1963

2. (c)

A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution.

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4. (a) Arunanchal Pradesh

Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary (862 km2, 92°36' – 93°09'E and 26°54 – 27°16'N) lies in the foothills of the Eastern Himalaya in the East Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh

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6. (c) Both 1 and 2

1. Capital infusion into public sector bank by government has increased in last decade - Yes they have grew up heavily and recently Injection of 2.11 Lakh crore is plan of government.

2. Associate banks were merged with SBI recently

7. (a)

Cereal Grained hulled - 0%
Chicken Egg cooked - Not Exempt because it is not mentioned that Egg is in shell (HSN 408)
Fish processed and canned - 5%
Newspaper containing advertisement - Not Exempt

8.

1. Correct: The phrase ‘critical wildlife habitat’ is defined only in the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, and NOT in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. (Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=69806)

2. Correct: In a bid to undo historical injustice meted out to primitive tribal communities living in central India, the government of Madhya Pradesh has for the first time recognized the habitat rights of seven villages in Dindori district, mostly inhabited by the Baigas. - 2016

9. (d) 

96. (c)

Lala Lajpat Rai

97(d) Neither 1 nor 2 are correct

Aadhar card is not a proof of citizenship (Calcutta High Court)

Aadhar issuing agency can deactivate number.

98. (a)

Question asks for reason of drying up due to human activities

Aral Sea: Satellite images taken by NASA in August 2014 revealed that for the first time in modern history the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had completely dried up. The eastern basin is now called the Aralkum Desert.

Black Sea has a positive water balance; that is, a net outflow of water 300 km3 (72 cu mi) per year through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles into the Aegean Sea. Mediterranean water flows into the Black Sea as part of a two-way hydrological exchange. The Black Sea outflow is cooler and less saline, and floats over the warm, more saline Mediterranean inflow – as a result of differences in density caused by differences in salinity – leading to a significant anoxic layer well below the surface waters.

Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water, it contains more water than the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), Baikal is the world's deepest lake. It is considered among the world's clearest lakes and is considered the world's oldest lake – at 25–30 million years.

99. (d)

World Justice project, Rule of Law Index measures rule of law adherence in 113 countries and jurisdictions worldwide based on more than 110,000 household and 3,000 expert surveys. Featuring primary data, the WJP Rule of Law Index measures countries’ rule of law performance across eight factors: Constraints on Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Open Government, Fundamental Rights, Order and Security, Regulatory Enforcement, Civil Justice, and Criminal Justice. (https://worldjusticeproject.org/our-work/wjp-rule-law-index/wjp-rule-law-index-2017%E2%80%932018)

100. (c)

This is done through the National Financial Switch (NFS), India’s largest network of shared and interconnected ATMs developed by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology and managed by the NPCI. As of July 2016, there are 226,816 ATMs in NFS’ network which includes commercial banks, co-operative banks, regional rural banks and white label ATM operators.

The proposal to link all cash deposit machines was first expressed by the Reserve Bank of India.



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