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With Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma abolishing the discretionary quota for gas and telephone connections enjoyed by members of parliament last week, demands are being made for doing away with the same privilege for Union ministers.
Imposing a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on former petroleum minister Satish Sharma for arbitrarily allotting petrol pumps, the Supreme Court had said last year that absolute discretion was an anathema to the Constitution and advised the ‘judicious’ use of discretionary powers.
Citing the use of the so-called privileges as “prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust”, HD Shourie of Common Cause has sought the prime minister’s intervention to “stop this practice of discretionary quota for ministers to present to the public an image of clean functioning of the government.”
In a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary, he has drawn the PM’s attention to the misuse of this privilege by more than a dozen ministers. In the railways, discretionary quota covers platform stalls, passes, tickets and berths on trains. In civil aviation and tourism, the largesse includes free international air tickets, out-of-turn seats and stalls in ITDC hotels.
“Prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust” — in this quote prejudicial means
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5e8aaf9a7b82aa7479fb0d24With Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma abolishing the discretionary quota for gas and telephone connections enjoyed by members of parliament last week, demands are being made for doing away with the same privilege for Union ministers.
Imposing a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on former petroleum minister Satish Sharma for arbitrarily allotting petrol pumps, the Supreme Court had said last year that absolute discretion was an anathema to the Constitution and advised the ‘judicious’ use of discretionary powers.
Citing the use of the so-called privileges as “prejudicial to public interest and a breach of trust”, HD Shourie of Common Cause has sought the prime minister’s intervention to “stop this practice of discretionary quota for ministers to present to the public an image of clean functioning of the government.”
In a letter written to the Cabinet Secretary, he has drawn the PM’s attention to the misuse of this privilege by more than a dozen ministers. In the railways, discretionary quota covers platform stalls, passes, tickets and berths on trains. In civil aviation and tourism, the largesse includes free international air tickets, out-of-turn seats and stalls in ITDC hotels.
- 1an opinion formed in the mind beforehandfalse
- 2previous suggestionfalse
- 3prehistoric knowledgefalse
- 4to instruct previouslyfalse
- 5being harmfultrue
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Answer : 5. "being harmful"
Q: Which one of the following gas is readily soluble in water at room temperature ? 10268 05c2dc02c94bba731de8f0a2c
5c2dc02c94bba731de8f0a2c- 1chlorinefalse
- 2nitrogenfalse
- 3ammoniafalse
- 4carbon dioxidetrue
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Answer : 4. "carbon dioxide"
Q: Which of the following is Not a Function? 10240 05b5cc6b2e4d2b4197774d388
5b5cc6b2e4d2b4197774d388- 1Incident Managementtrue
- 2Technical Managementfalse
- 3Service Deskfalse
- 4Application Managementfalse
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Answer : 1. "Incident Management"
Explanation :
Answer: A) Incident Management Explanation:
Q: Who called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak? 10230 05b5cc6a2e4d2b4197774cb51
5b5cc6a2e4d2b4197774cb51- 1Rabindranath Tagoretrue
- 2Mahatma Gandhifalse
- 3Bal Gangadhar Tilakfalse
- 4Lala Lajpat Raifalse
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Answer : 1. "Rabindranath Tagore"
Explanation :
Answer: A) Rabindranath Tagore Explanation: Rabindranath Tagore called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak for the first time.
Q: Select the option that has the same relationship with the third number as the second number with the first number.
10 : 1010 :: 11 :?
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5f5f276880a26b7dabf9965710 : 1010 :: 11 :?
- 11342true
- 21351false
- 31352false
- 41331false
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Answer : 1. "1342"
Q: A and B began business with Rs.3000 and Rs.4000 after 8 months, A withdraws Rs.1000 and B advances Rs.1000 more. At the end of the year, their profits amounted to Rs.630 find the share of A ? 10164 05b5cc6e9e4d2b4197774edfc
5b5cc6e9e4d2b4197774edfc- 1Rs. 240true
- 2Rs. 75false
- 3Rs. 125false
- 4Rs. 354false
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Answer : 1. "Rs. 240"
Explanation :
Answer: A) Rs. 240 Explanation: The ratio of A & B investments = (3x8 + 2x4):(4x8 + 5x4) => 8:13 => 8/21 x 630 = 240.
Q: lion: animal : : flower : ___________ 10145 25bdbed7a4bfcd664dd39042c
5bdbed7a4bfcd664dd39042c- 1planttrue
- 2rootsfalse
- 3grassfalse
- 4rosefalse
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Answer : 1. "plant"
Q: Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 hours and 1717 hours respectively. Harihar opened the pipes A and B to fill an empty tank and some times later he closed the taps A and B , when the tank was supposed to be full. After that it was found that the tank was emptied in 2.5 hours because an outlet pipe "C" connected to the tank was open from the beginning. If Harihar closed the pipe C instead of closing pipes A and B the remaining tank would have been filled in : 10143 05b5cc7cfe4d2b419777511cc
5b5cc7cfe4d2b419777511cc- 12 hoursfalse
- 28 hourstrue
- 36 hoursfalse
- 44 hoursfalse
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Answer : 2. "8 hours"
Explanation :
Answer: B) 8 hours Explanation: Efficiency of Inlet pipe A = 4.16% 10024 Efficiency of Inlet pipe B = 5.83% 1001717 Therefore, Efficiency of A and B together = 100 % Now, if the efficiency of outlet pipe be x% then in 10 hours the capacity of tank which will be filled = 10 * (10 - x) Now, since this amount of water is being emptied by 'C' at x% per hour, then 10x10-xx=2.5 hrs => x = 8 Therefore, in 10 hours 20% tank is filled only. Hence, the remaining 80% of the capacity will be filled by pipes A and B in 80/10 = 8 hours

