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Q1. Which of the following statements are correct?
1 NITI Aayog follows a completely centralized approach and does not involve states in decision-making.
2 Planning Commission promoted competitive federalism by encouraging states to compete in development indicators.
(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Both are correct
(d) Both are wrong
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Cooperative Federalism: Unlike the Planning Commission, which dictated policies to states, NITI Aayog treats states as equal partners in the national development process.
Competitive Federalism: It encourages healthy competition among states to improve their performance across various social and economic sectors (health, education, water management, etc.).
Q2.Which of the following statements best describes the concept of Competitive Federalism in India?
(a) It refers to a system where the central government imposes uniform policies on all states without considering their individual performance in social and economic sectors
(b) It is a mechanism under which financial resources are equally distributed among all states without linking them to performance indicators or development outcomes
(c) It is an approach that encourages states to compete with each other in improving governance, service delivery, and outcomes in sectors like health, education, and water management to achieve overall national development
(d) It denotes a situation where states compete only in political matters such as elections without focusing on socio-economic development.
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Q3. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the recent reconstitution of NITI Aayog?
(a) Ashok Kumar Lahiri has been appointed as the Vice-Chairperson replacing the previous incumbent
(b) The Vice-Chairperson of NITI Aayog is elected by the state governments collectively
(c) NITI Aayog has been abolished and replaced by a new central planning body
(d) The Prime Minister is no longer the Chairperson of NITI Aayog.
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# Government of India has reconstituted the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), appointing Ashok Kumar Lahiri as Vice-Chairperson.
# Inducting new five full-time members, of whom three have strong backgrounds in health, biotechnology, and deep tech.
# The NITI Aayog was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet in 2015, replacing the erstwhile Planning Commission.
# NITI Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalysing economic development and fostering cooperative federalism through the involvement of State Governments in the economic policymaking process using a bottom-up approach.
# It is an advisory, extra-constitutional and non-statutory body. It serves purely as an advisory think tank.
Q4. Consider the following statements about Mission Drishti:
I. Mission Drishti is the debut human spaceflight mission launched by GalaxEye aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
II. Drishti is the world’s first satellite designed exclusively for weather forecasting using infrared sensors only.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II
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Q5.Consider the following statements:
I. INS Mahendragiri is the sixth ship of the Nilgiri-class under Project 17A of the Indian Navy.
II. Project 17A involves the development of stealth guided-missile frigates as a follow-on to the Shivalik-class (Project 17).
III. All seven ships under Project 17A are being built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL).
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) I and II only
(b) II and III only
(c) I and III only
(d) I, II and III
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14.05.2026
Q1.Consider the following words:
1.Socialist
2.Democratic
3.Sovereign
4.Secular
Choose the response that gives the correct order in which these words occur in the Preamble.
(a) 3,1,4,2
(b) 3,4,1,2
(c) 3,4,2,1
(d) 4,1,3,2
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Q2. Who said “Preamble is the keynote to the Constitution”?
(a) Ernest Barker
(b) K.M. Munshi
(c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) D.D. Basu
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Q3. For which one of the following judgments of the Supreme Court of India is the Kesavananda Bharati vs State of India case considered a landmark?
(a) Religion cannot be mobilised for political ends
(b) Abolishing untouchability from the country
(c) Right to Life and Liberty cannot be suspended under any circumstance
(d) The basic structure of the Constitution, as defined in the Preamble, cannot be changed
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Q4. The ideals and objectives outlined in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution have been further elaborated in
(a) the chapter on Fundamental Rights
(b) the chapter on Directive Principles of State Policy
(c) the chapter on Directive Principles of State Policy, Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties
(d) nowhere else in the text of the Constitution
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