MPPSC Prelims 2016 Solved Paper

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Solution:

Bangladesh — 4096.7 km

China —       3488 km

Pakistan —-   3323 km

Nepal —-   1751 km

Mayanmar — 1643 km

Bhutan —- 699 km

Afganishtan —- 106 km

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Solution: Anamudi is a mountain located in the Ernakulam and Idukki districts of the Indian state of Kerala.It is the highest peak in the Western Ghats and in South India also. It lies in kerala.

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Solution: The valley is bounded on the southwest by the Pir Panjal Range and on the northeast by the main Himalayas range. It is approximately 135 km (84 mi) long and 32 km (20 mi) wide, and drained by the Jhelum River.

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Solution: Barren Island, one of the most easterly of the Andaman Islands, is the only confirmed active volcano in India.

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Solution: Blue revolution refers to the intense growth of the aquaculture industry (fish and marine products).

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Solution: It is drawn on conquered area.

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Solution: Hudhud cyclone hit the Indian mainland at Andra Pradesh Coast. It was a strong tropical cyclone.

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Solution: Rana Pratap Sagar. Oldest dam over Chambal River in Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution:

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) is the largest shipbuilding and maintenance facility in India located in the port city of Kochi, Kerala, India.

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Solution: It is an experimental geothermal power plant of 5 MW capacity set up at Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh.

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Solution: gully erosion by Chambal River.

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Solution: It connects the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (East), Mumbai (west), and Chennai (south).

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Solution: The potato is a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum.

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Solution: Nobel gas is gases of group 18 of the periodic table .The elements helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon are the members of this group.

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Solution: Liver, the largest gland in the body, a spongy mass of wedge-shaped lobes,

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Solution: All mammals have lungs that are the main organs for breathing. During inhalation, the lungs expand with air, and oxygen diffuses across the lung’s surface and enters the bloodstream. During exhalation, the lungs expel air and lung volume decreases.

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Solution: Acetic acid (CH₃COOH), also called ethanoic acid, the most important of the carboxylic acids is a dilute (approximately 5 percent by volume) solution of acetic acid produced by fermentation and oxidation of natural carbohydrates is called vinegar; a salt, ester, or acylal of acetic acid is called acetate.

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Solution: Myopia is an eye disorder also known as Nearsightedness.

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Solution: Watt is a unit of Power.

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Solution: Mercury is commonly used in barometers because its height of the column can be a reasonable size due to higher density so that to measure atmospheric pressure.

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Solution: Uranium is a radioactive substance.

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Solution: The formal and real beginning of five-year plans is said to have started in MP from 11th November 1956.

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Solution: Starch is a polysaccharide comprising glucose monomers joined in α 1,4 linkages.

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Solution: The first level includes the producers—the photosynthetic plants—which convert the Sun’s radiant energy into nutrients available to other organisms in the community. These plants are eaten by herbivores (plant-eaters, or primary consumers), the second trophic level.

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Solution: The process of pasteurisation involves heating milk to 71.7°C for at least 15 seconds (and no more than 25 seconds). … Once the milk has been heated, it is then cooled very quickly to less than 3°C.

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Solution: The ozone hole has developed because people have polluted the atmosphere with chemicals containing chlorine and bromine. The primary chemicals involved are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs for short), halons, and carbon tetrachloride.

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Solution: Rajendra Chaudhary is known as the ‘Waterman of India’. He is the founder of Tarun Bahrat Sangh which works for revival of rivers such as Aravari,Tiba etc in Rajasthan.

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Solution: Sunderlal Bahuguna (passed away recently in 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader.

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Solution: The Survey of India is India’s central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company, it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India.

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Solution: The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for protection of plants and animal species. Before 1972, India had only five designated national parks.

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Solution: Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest record of population density having 17 per square kilometre.

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Solution: The project named ‘e-sahyog’ of the Income-tax department was launched by the Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley on October 27, 2015, in New Delhi.

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Solution: Mark Zuckerberg Visited the Taj Mahal during his India visit in 2015.

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Solution: It was held in Belek, Antalya Province, Turkey on 15–16 November 2015.

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Solution: O.P. Sabharwal is the author of the book Killer Instinct. This book tells about rescue and raid mission worldwide.

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Solution: INS Sindhurakshak was a Russian constructed Kilo-class 877EKM diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy.

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Solution: Five countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

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Solution: Gokarn, who died at the age of 59, was appointed as the executive director for India on the board of the IMF in November 2015.

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Solution: At Delhi.

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Solution: 31 October is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel who had a major role in the political integration of India.

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Solution: A “caged parrot” was how the Supreme Court had described the agency during a hearing of the Coalfield allocation cases in 2013. That time, the BJP, which was in the opposition, accused the agency of being controlled by the Congress-led government.

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Solution: Madhya Pradesh Laghu Udyog Nigam Limited is a State Govt company, incorporated on 28 Dec, 1961.

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Solution: The Indian Parliament passed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on 23rd August 2005.It guarantees the 100 days of wage employment in the financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. In this scheme, one-third of the proposed job will be reserved for women.

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Solution: The Gold Export Promotion Park is situated in Indore.

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Solution: Total population of Madhya Pradesh as per 2011 census is 7.27 crore, of which male and female are 3.76 crore and 3.51 crore respectively.

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Solution: According to the 2011 census, Madhya Pradesh’s most populous district is Indore, whose population is 32,76,697, while the lowest population is in Harda district, which is 5,70,465.

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Solution: The economy of Madhya Pradesh is significantly agrarian which is reflecting rapid strides towards industrial and service sectors as well.

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Solution: The Government of Madhya pradesh for the first time declared a Madhya Pradesh Mineral Policy in the year 1995.

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Solution: The spirit and the objective of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected Habitations. A habitation which was earlier provided all-weather connectivity would not be eligible even if the present condition of the road is bad

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Solution: All options are correct.

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Solution: Chrome, an Internet browser released by Google, Inc., a major American search engine company, in 2008.

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Solution: A computer worm is a malicious, self-replicating software program (popularly termed as ‘malware’) which affects the functions of software and hardware programs.

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Solution: SPAM is any sort of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication sent out in bulk, usually in the form of an email.

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Solution: Baidu.com is the search engine in the Chinese-language or china based.

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Solution: A video input device, such as a video camera, desktop web cam, or a camera built in to a tablet, smart phone, or laptop. and an audio input device, such as a stand-alone microphone, headset, or a smart phone’s voice input are required.

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Solution: Hypertext Transfer Protocol = HTTP

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Solution: The Central Government inay, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

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Solution: The Dhupgarh Peak (1,350 metres), near Pachmarhi is the state’s highest point.

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Solution: The Kaimur range acts as a water divide between Yamuna and Son.

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Solution: Pachmarhi is a hill station in Hoshangabad district(Narmadapuram) of Madhya Pradesh

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Solution: Tawa river is the longest tributary of Narmada, originates in the Mahadeo hills in Betul (Madhya Pradesh), before joining the Narmada in Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh).

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Solution: The Dhuandhar Falls is a waterfall in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: The Chambal and its tributaries drain the Malwa region of northwestern Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: Madhya Pradesh has a Monsoon type of Climate.

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Solution: Suchitra Sen was an Indian film actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema.

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Solution: The 29th state of India is Telangana, which has been formed on 2 June 2014.

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Solution: This fair is held at the samadhi of Kana Baba in a village named Sodhalpur in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: Vidisha district

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Solution: Khajuraho located in the Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh is a group of temples related to Hinduism and Jainism.

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Solution: Agariya tribes worship Lohasur as their deity who are iron smelter workers and miners.

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Solution: Bharat Bhavan is an autonomous multi-arts complex and museum in Bhopal established and funded by the Government of Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: STs have the highest proportion in Jhabua district (86.8 per cent) followed by Barwani (67 per cent), Dindori (64.5 per cent) and Mandla (57.2 per cent) districts.

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Solution: The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders, and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in each province.

Sensex, which stands for ‘Stock Exchange Sensitive Index‘, is the stock market index for the Bombay Stock Exchange. It calculates the movement on BSE  (Bombay Stock Exchange).

The BSE SENSEX is a free-float market-weighted stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The NIFTY 50 is a benchmark Indian stock market index that represents the weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. It is one of the two main stock indices used in India, the other being the BSE SENSEX.

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Solution: SBI is India’s largest public sector bank and is ranked 232^nd on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s biggest corporations.

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Solution: The tomb of Sher Shah Suri is in the Sasaram town of Bihar.

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Solution: WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.^[

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Solution: The Supreme Court is the custodian of the Constitution of India and the higher judiciary has played a crucial role in supporting the separation of powers, an important feature of our democracy.

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Solution: Balwant Rai Mehta committee recommended for the establishment of a three-tier Panchayati raj system:

1. At village-level grama panchayats
2. At block-level panchayat samitis, and
3. At district-level Zila Parishads.

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Solution: The term scientific socialism was used by Friedrich Engels to characterize the doctrines that he and Karl Marx developed and distinguish them from other socialist doctrines.

Scientific socialism was introduced to Russia in the late ninenteenth century.

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Solution: The first state to be created on a linguistic basis was Andhra in 1953, created out of the Telugu-speaking northern parts of Madras State.

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Solution: Niccolò de’ Conti was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer. Born in Chioggia, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and possibly to Southern China, during the early 15th century.

He visited Vijayanagar empire during the reign of Devaraya-I .

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Solution: Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, is commonly referred to as the “Home of Cricket” and it also has world’s oldest sporting museum. It was named after its founder Thomas Lord. It is also called as the ‘Mecca of Cricket.

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Solution: Men’s football made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Games in Paris, where Great Britain took the first gold medal.

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Solution: The Chittagong armoury raid took place on 18 April 1930 led by freedom fighter Surya Sen.

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Solution: On 14 June 1945 Lord Wavell at the Shimla Conference announced a plan for a new Executive Council in which all members except the Viceroy and the Commander in Chief would be Indians.

The secretary of state of India, L.S.Amery, officially launched the Wavell plan in London.

The Wavell Plan was first  in 1945

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Solution: Under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, land may be acquired for a public purpose and also for companies.

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Solution: The Prime Minister acts as the Chairperson, presently NITI Aayog.

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Solution: It states that “Public servant” shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.