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Q651.

The information and broadcasting ministry has constituted a panel to give recommendations for restructuring of censor board, which has been mired in controversies in the recent past.Who among the following is the constituted director  of panel ?

1)	Shyam Benegal	2)	Amitabh Bachchan
3)	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	4)	Bhawana Somaaya
5)	None of these

Q652.

The Central Govt. has appointment a panel to vigil the students no-fail-till-Class 8 which has recommended revocation of the 'no-detention policy' under which students could not be failed in exams till class VIII as part of the Right to Education. Who is the head of the panel ?

1)	Smriti Irani	2)	Rajnath Siongh
3)	Shri Arvind Panagariya,	4)	Vasudev Devnani
5)	Shri Bibek Debroy

Q653.

Recently, the Union Govt. has taken the decision that those with annual taxable income above ---------  to be excluded from getting subsidised LPG cylinders where as many as 57.5 lakh “well-to-do households” to voluntarily give up the cooking gas subsidy.

1)	above Rs 5 lakh	2)	above Rs 6 lakh
3)	above Rs 10 lakh	4)	above Rs 12 lakh
5)	None of these

Q654.

The Union Government has unveiled the India's National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015-2020 to establish India as a world class bio-manufacturing hub which would work to turn this sector into a $100 billion industry by 2025 with focus in areas of healthcare, food and nutrition, clean energy and education.The National Biotechnology Development Strategy  is under the ministry of ------- .

1)	Ministry of science and technology	2)	Ministry of HRD
3)	Ministry of Health and Education	4)	Ministry of Home
5)	None of these

Q655.

The Central Govt. has decided to scale up the financial assistance for grid connected rooftop and small solar power plants programme from Rs 600 crore to  Rs.---------- crore for implementation of Grid Connected Rooftops systems over a period of five years upto 2019-20 under National Solar Mission (NSM) which aim is to increase the use of clean energy .

1)	Rs 1,000 crore	2)	Rs 2,000 crore
3)	Rs 5,000 crore	4)	Rs 10,000 crore
5)	None of these

Q656.

The Central Government has approved an Amended Technology Up-gradation Fund Scheme (A-TUFS) replacing the existing Revised Restructured TUFS for technology up-gradation of the textiles industry. It expected to attract investment to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore and create over how many jobs in India ?

1)	20 lakh jobs	2)	30 lakh jobs
3)	40 lakh jobs	4)	50 lakh jobs
5)	None of these

Q657.

Which committee viewed the public-private partnership (PPP) model for infrastructure and has recommended several measures for easy financing of issuance of zero coupon bonds by banks to developers, equity divestment by the government from completed projects and removing bars on demonetization of viable projects after the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work is finished ?

1)	Kelkar committee	2)	Rangarajan Committee
3)	Naresh Chandra Committee	4)	Narasimham Committee
5)	None of these

Q658.

Which state government has observed December 29 as the Vishwamanava Day on the memory of the legendary poet Kuvempu 's birthday ?

1)	Kerala	2)	Karnataka
3)	Tamil Nadu	4)	Maharashtra
5)	Andhra Pradesh

Q659.

The Union Government has set up Rs 40,000 crore National Investment and Infrastructure fund (NIIF) and the chief executive of the NIIF will be finalised by January end ,2016. Who is present is the Chairman of the Council ?

1)	Financial Services Secretary, Anjuly Chib Duggal	2)	SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya
3)	Finance Minister Arun Jaitley	4)	Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das
5)	None of these

Q660.

The Central government has appointed  whom as disinvestment secretary replacing Neeraj Kumar Gupta will be the chairperson of the National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention ?

1)	Amitabh Kant	2)	Aradhana Johri
3)	Rashmi Verma	4)	Sanjay Mitra
5)	None of these