NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Public Administration MCQs (Practice_Test 4 of 104)
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- Consider the following statements: The system of Performance Appraisal of employees
- provides systematic judgement for purposes of promotion, salary increases, transfers, demotions, etc.
- acts as a means of informing a subordinate as to how he is doing and where he needs to improve.
- helps in determining the training needs of individual employees
- facilitates a healthy dialogue between the employer and employees
- Which of these statements are correct?
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 1 and 4
- 1,2 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- Legislative control over administration is a matter of
- historical accident
- convention
- procedural compliance
- democratic faith
- Consider the following statements regarding Public Accounts Committee
- It examines the Audit Report of the CAG
- The suggestions made by the Committee are necessarily accepted by the Government
- It ensures the observance of the canons of financial propriety in all transactions
- The Committee functions in a nonpartisan manner
- Which of these statements are correct?
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- 1 and 2
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- Which one of the following events is NOT considered to be an indication of loss of confidence of the lower house of the Parliament?
- Adjournment motion is carried
- Vote of thanks on the President՚s address is not carried
- Cut on Money Bill is passed
- Censure motion is passed
- Which one of the following is NOT a limitation of Judicial Control?
- Administrative actions are of highly technical nature
- Judicial remedy is quite expensive
- Judicial process is time consuming
- Judiciary can by itself take cognizance of the excess of the officials
- At present, institutions for the redressal of citizen՚s grievances in India include
- Supreme Court and the Lokpal
- Lokpal and the Lokayukta.
- Lokayukta and the Supreme Court
- Administrative Tribunals and the
- Lokpal
- Consider the following characteristic features
- Being run by a government department with a Minister at the top
- Being a corporate body created by a special statute of Parliament
- Being financed by annual appropriations from the Treasury
- Enjoying financial autonomy and being expected to be self-supporting
- Which of these are the characteristic features of a public corporation?
- 1 and 2
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 4
- 3 and 4
- When a company is in a position to control the management of another company, it automatically becomes a/an
- private limited company
- amalgamated company
- joint limited company
- holding company
- Which one of the following statements about Performance Budget is NOT correct?
- It operates with clearly defined objectives
- It lays emphasis on purposes of expenditure
- It is concerned with outputs and not inputs
- It is used for implementations of government programmes
- Consider the following statements: A budget is always
- a statements of estimated income and expenditure
- either surplus or deficit
- bound by a time frame
- performance-oriented
- Which of these statements are correct?
- 1 and 2
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 4
- Which one of the following statements is not correct?
- The Railway budget and the demand for grants relating to Railways are presented to the Parliament separately
- Generally one demand for grant is presented in respect of each Ministry or Department
- The demand for grants for the Department of Telecommunications is presented to the Parliament separately
- The demands for grants of various
- Ministries include both plan and nonplan estimates of expenditure under each head
- Which one of the following statements about ‘Audit’ is NOT correct?
- It adopts a fault-finding approach
- It concerns itself with financial propriety
- It is concerned with adherence to rules, regulations and procedure
- It critically examines income, expenditure and performance
- Consider the following statements: Fiscal deficit in Government budget can be reduced by
- rationalising and economising expenditure
- cutting down inefficiency
- improving workers ′ productivity
- adopting new methods of budgetmaking
- Which of these statements are correct?
- 1,2 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- Which one of the following is NOT a primary function of the accounting system?
- To reveal financial conditions of the organisation
- To protect those who handle funds
- To prevent necessary adjustments in expenditure
- To help auditing
- Which one of the following Acts restricts the political activities at the State and local level civil servants in the USA?
- Civil Service Act, 1883
- Ransteck Act, 1940
- First Hatch Act, 1939
- Second Hatch Act, 1940