NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Public Administration MCQs (Practice_Test 96 of 104)
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- Which one of the following is NOT an objective of Whitley Councils?
- Ventilation of grievances through discussions
- Providing a forum for securing cooperation between State and civil servants
- Proposing legislation on issues relating to civil servants vis-a-vis their employment
- Hearing petitions filed by individual civil servants
- A new All India service can be created by
- an amendment of the Constitution
- an executive order
- a resolution under Article 312 of the Constitution
- a statute
- The mid-career Advance Professional Programme is Public Administration popularly known as APPP A for civil servants is organised by:
- HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, Jaipur
- Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad
- Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi
- Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie
- Which one of the following countries does NOT have a Civil Service Commission charged with the responsibility for recruitment to the higher civil service?
- Canada
- USA
- Britain
- France
- The first Chairman of Administrative Reforms Commission was
- Shri K. Hanurilanthaiah
- Gulzari Lal Nanda
- Morarji Desai
- V. T. Krishnamachari
- The political rights available to a civil servant in India do NOT prohibit him/her from
- expressing a political view
- contributing financially to a political party
- subscribing to a political movement
- Voting at national and state elections
- Consider the following Reports:
- Paul H. Appleby Report I.
- A. D. Gorwale Report
- Santhanam Committee՚s Report
- Administrative Reforms Commission՚s
- Report
- The correct chronological sequence of these reports
- 2,1, 4,3
- 2,1, 3,4
- 1,2, 3,4
- 1,2, 4,3
- The correct chronological sequence of these reports
- The Fifth Pay Commission of the Central Government had recommended
- retention of the existing system of classification of services/posts
- modification of the classification into Class I, class II, Class III and Class IV
- giving the existing classification into Group A, B, C, D “a decent burial” as it served no practical purpose
- introduction of the American system of position classification
- Consider the following statements: A budget presented in terms of functions, programmes and activities of the government is known as
- line items budgeting
- programme budgeting
- performance budgeting
- Of these statements
- 1 alone is correct
- 1 and 2 are correct
- 2 and 3 are correct
- 1,2 and 3 are correct
- Consider the following statements: In India, the Comptroller and Auditor General has to
- audit government expenditure
- make financial policy
- sanction grants to various departments
- see that public expenditure are in conformity with the government rules
- Of these statements
- 2,3 and 4 are correct
- 1 and 3 are correct
- 2 and 3 are correct
- 1 and 4 are correct
- Which of the following is NOT true of Audit in India?
- It is a Constitutional obligation
- It looks into the question of merits of expenditure
- It investigates into the impropriety, wastefulness or extravagance of expenditure
- It is governed by an executive order
- When an advance grant is made by Parliament, pending the regular passage of the budget it is called
- vote on credit
- token grant
- vote on account
- supplementary grant
- What is the correct sequence of the stages of the enactment of the budget in India?
- Passing of finance bill, appropriation bill, voting of demand for grants, general discussion
- General discussion, appropriation bill, voting of demands of grants, finance bill
- General discussion, voting of demands for grants, appropriation bill, finance bill
- Finance bill, voting of demands for grants, general discussion, appropriation bill
- Consider the following statements: The Finance Ministry is given tremendous control over the estimates of other Ministries because
- usually a Cabinet Minister is in charge of it
- it is not a spending Ministry
- it is responsible for the conduct of all the financial transactions of the Government as a whole
- no other ministry can spend without its sanction
- Of these statements
- 1,2 and 3 are correct
- 2,3 and 4 are correct
- 1,3 and 4 are correct
- 1,2 and 4 are correct
- ‘Performance Budgeting’ was introduced in India, on the recommendations of
- Gorwala Report
- Sanathanam Committee
- Administrative Reforms Commission
- Paul H. Appleby Report