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PART-II

M.A. IN GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR

Duration: 1 Hour Marks: 50

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read the following carefully before making an attempt to take the Test.

1. This booklet contains 8 pages including the blank ones. As soon as you open thebooklet, please confirm that all the pages are intact and printed correctly.

2. This paper contains 50 questions.

3. Keep only the Admit Card, pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT keep withyou books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watchcalculators), pagers, cellular phones, or any other device.

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5. Enter correctly your Registration No. both on the TEST BOOKLET and OMR Sheet.

6. Shade the appropriate oval against each question in the OMR sheet. Shade the ovalcompletely and do not shade more than one oval, in that case the answer will betreated null and void.

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8. Do all rough work on the test booklet only and NOT on the OMR sheet. No extra sheetto be used for the rough work.

9. Follow the instructions of the Invigilator. Candidates refusing to comply with theinstructions will be expelled from the test.

10. Ensure that you have signed against your name on the attendance sheet circulated bythe Invigilator.

11. At the end of the test, remain seated. Do not head off from the hall till the Invigilatorannounces, “You may leave now”. The invigilator will make the announcement onlyafter collecting the test booklets and OMR sheets from everyone in the room.

12. There is no negative mark for wrong answers.

ANY CANDIDATE PROVIDING / SEEKING / RECEIVING ASSISTANCE ORFOUND COPYING WILL BE INSTANTLY DEBARRED FROM THE TEST.

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1) Who is head of World Trade Organisation?a) M. Kamal Nath b) Nandita Devidayal c) Pascal Lamy d) None of the above

2) Who is winner of recently held Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix? a) Sebastian Vettel b) Felipe Massa c) Fernando Alonso d) Michael Schumacher

3) How many member states are there in Commonwealth Nations?a) 59 b) 54 c) 62d) 50

4) Which of the following is the administrative capital of European Union?a) Belgium cityb) Barcelonac) Brusselsd) Lisbon

5) Which one of the following has the B.K. Chaturvedi Committee dealt with?a) Review of Centre-States relationsb) Review of Delimitation Actc) Tax reforms and measures to increase revenuesd) Price-reforms in the oil sector

6) During the freedom struggle, Aruna Asaf Ali was a major organiser of underground activitya) Civil Disobedience Movementb) Non-Cooperation Movementc) Quit India Movementd) Swadeshi Movement

7) Who of the following is the author of the book “The Idea of Justice”?a) B.R.Ambedkarb) John Rawlsc) Martin Luther King Jrd) Amartya Sen

8) Which one of the following cities is the seat of Parliament of South Africa?a) Pretoriab) Durbanc) Johannesburgd) Cape Town

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9) The purchasing power of people’s incomes is most affected by a) The inflation rate b) The trade deficit c) The balance of payments d) Fiscal policy

10) Economic growth of a country is measured by a positive change in which of the following?a) The money supplyb) The Producer Price Indexc) The Gross Domestic Productd) The balance of payments

11) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was founded in the yeara) 1920b) 1988c) 1948d) 1945

12) Which of the following reason is not part of criticism/reason of opposition to the World Trade Organisation (WTO):a) WTO is too powerful and can compel sovereign states to change laws and

regulations in favor of free tradeb) WTO is run by the rich for the rich and does not bother about poor and developing

countriesc) WTO is in favour of promoting worker’s right, child labour, environment and

healthd) WTO lacks democratic accountability

13) What is the Kyoto Protocol?a) A protocol to promote the rights of workersb) A protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

aimed at fighting global warmingc) A protocol to promote fair traded) A protocol to promote decent work

14) When is the international women’s day celebrated?a) 11th of March b) 1st of March c) 2nd March d) 8th March

15) Pink ribbon is international symbol associated with a) AIDSb) Breast Cancerc) Hepatitisd) Blood donation

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16) Who is the Director General of International Labour Organisation (ILO)?a) Pascal Lamyb) Juan Somaviac) Dominique Strauss Kahn d) Kofi Annan

17) A joint ILO-IMF conference was held in September, 2010. Where was the conference held?a) Davos b) Cannesc) Turin d) Oslo

18) Who among the following were the official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission?a) M.K. Gandhi and Sardar Patelb) Acharya J.B.Kripalani and C.Rajagopalacharic) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azadd) Dr Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

19) In India, which of the following is regulated by the Forward Markets Commission?a) Currency Futures Trading b) Commodities Futures Trading c) Equity Futures Tradingd) Both Commodities Futures and Financial Futures Trading

20) Among the following, who was not a proponent of bhakti cult?a) Nagarjunab) Tukaramc) Tyagrajad) Vallabhacharya

21) Which of the following reflects back more sunlight as compared to other three?a) Sand desertb) Paddy crop landc) Grass landd) Land covered with fresh snow

22) Which one of the following is responsible for the preparation and presentation ofUnion Budget to the Parliament?a) Department of Revenue b) Department of Economic Affairs c) Department of Financial Servicesd) Department of Expenditure

23) Khap Panchayats have been in news recently, what is a Khap?a) Casteb) Cluster of villages united by caste and geographyc) Group of older Mend) Settlement

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24 In the Human Development Index ranking 2009, India is placed at which position?a) 100b) 128c) 199d) 134

25) A recent report submitted on poverty in India, estimates about 38 per cent populationbelow poverty line (BPL), this report is also known as a) Arjun Sengupta Reportb) Joseph Stiglitz Reportc) Prabhat Patnaik Reportd) S.D.Tendulkar Report

26) What is TRYSEM related to?a) Terrorism Related Youth and Self Trialb) Training and Rural Guarantee Schemec) Training Rural Youth for Self Employmentd) Training for preventing youth to enter into terrorist related activities

27) What is NRHM policy?a) National Rural Household Migration b) National Regional Housing Manual c) National Rural Health Mission d) National Rural Housing Mission

28) Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the Folk Society?a) It is small, isolated, non literateb) The sacred prevails over the secularc) The economy is one of the status rather than of the marketd) The status is achieved one

29) Which of the following groups is best classified by the feature of an in-group?a) Primary Groupb) Secondary Group c) Tertiary Group d) Reference Group

30) Under which of the following articles of the Constitution of India does the stateprovide equal justice and free legal aid?

a) Article 38

b) Article 39

c) Article 39A

d) Article 41

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31) Which one of the following thinkers proposed the criterion of falsification as themeasure of scientific truth?a) Levi Straussb) Max Weberc) Karl Popperd) Karl Marx

32) Which one of the following political philosophers is an advocate of positive liberty?a) Isaih Berlin b) Iris Marion Young c) John Stuart Mill d) T.H. Green

33) Which one of the following was not identified by G. Almond as a stage of conversionprocess of a political system?a) Interest articulation b) Interest aggregation c) Political recruitment d) Role adjudication

34) Which one of the following judgments stated that secularism and federalism are thebasic features of the Indian Constitution?a) Keshavananda Bharti Caseb) S.R. Bommai Casec) Indira Sawhney Cased) Minerva Mills Case

35) The Supreme Court has increased the ambit of the Right to life (Article 21) to includewhich of the following?1. Right to life includes the Right to live with livelihood2. Right to life includes the Right to dignity3. Right to life includes the Right to receive guaranteed employment for 100 days in

a year4. Right to life includes the Right to receive minimum wagesSelect the correct answer using the combinations given below:a) 4 onlyb) 1 and 2 onlyc) 1, 2 and 3 onlyd) 1, 2, 3 and 4

36) Which Supreme Court Judge played a pivotal role in the introduction of Public InterestLitigation?a) Justice A.N.Rayb) Justice K. S. Hegdec) Justice S.Sorabjeed) Justice P. N. Bhagwati

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37) Who of the following is associated with Jharkhand Movement?a) Sundarlal Bahugunab) Medha Patkarc) Aruna Royd) Jaipal Singh

38) Jhum cultivation by cutting and burning trees is in practice by indigenous tribes ina) Karnataka b) North-Eastern States c) Orissa d) Jammu and Kashmir

39) ‘Crisis of distribution’ referred to in the context of poverty alleviation indicates a) Problem of distribution of fruits of development b) Improper distribution of spoils of power c) Inadequate resources to meet the needs of the country d) Injudicious distribution of financial aid to the poor

40) The policy of protective discrimination seeks to promote:a) Formal equality b) Substantive equality c) Inequality d) Meritocracy

41) Who is Union Minister of Labour and employment? a) Shri Mallikarjun Khargeb) Shri G.K. Vasanc) Shri Harish Rawatd) None of the above

42) The Plantation Labour (Amendment) Bill 2008 addressed only following issue/issues.a) prohibit children below 14 years from being employed in plantationsb) The employer shall compensate a worker in case of an accident.c) Workers who are exposed to insecticides and chemicals shall be periodically

medically examined in the prescribed manner.d) All of the above

43) Who is the chairperson of Labour Committtee under Lok Sabha?a) Hemanand Biswalb) T. R. Baaluc) Dara Singh Chauhand) None of the above

44) Dr. Ambedkar in his work “Thoughts on Linguistic states” proposesa) One state, one language b) One language, one statec) All people in the state must speak one languaged) None of the above

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45) The Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Act was passed in the year a) 2007b) 2008c) 2009d) 2010

46) Labour is subject of a) Stateb) Unionc) Concurrent list / joint subject of state & uniond) None of the above

47) Which country has not ratified the “Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999”and “Minimum Age Convention, 1973”a) Indiab) Pakistanc) Sri Lanka d) Nepal

48) India is ranked by US government in which of the following tiers on ‘Traffic in Person 2010’a) Tier 1 b) Tier 2 c) Tier 2 Watch listd) Tier 3

49) Right Against Exploitation — a fundamental rights given under following Articles ofConstitution of Indiaa) Articles 23 and 24b) Article 19 and 20c) Article 14 and 16d) Article 29 and 30

50) Who was founder of “Independent Labour Party” in Indiaa) M.K. Gandhib) B.R.Ambedkarc) Balagangadhar Tilakd) M.N.Roy

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