3476: With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
3477: Assertion (A): Balance of Payments represents a better picture of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world than the Balance of Trade.
Reason (R) : Balance of Payments takes into account the exchange of both visible and invisible items whereas Balance of Trade does not.
(a) Both A and R are individually true R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are individually true R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
3478: Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched ?
Inventor : Invention
1. Christopher : Hovercraft Cockerell
2. David Bushnell : Submarine
3. J.C. Perrier : Steamship
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
(a) 1 and 2, only
(b) 2 and 3, only
(c) 1 and 3, only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
3479: The surface of the water in a lake is frozen and its temperature is -15°C. The maximum possible temperature of the water inside the lake in contact with the ice layer will be:
(a) 0°C
(b) 4°C
(c) 15°C
(d) Insufficient data to predict
3480: Consider the following statements:
1. The Rajya Sabha has no power either to reject or to amend a Money Bill.
2. The Rajya Sabha cannot vote on the Demands for Grants.
3. The Rajya Sabha cannot discuss the Annual Financial Statement.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3