1706: The average salary of 100 employees in an office is Rs. 16,000 per month. The management decided to raise salary of every employee by 5% but stopped a transport allowance of Rs. 800 per month which was paid earlier to every employee. What will be the new average monthly salary ?
(A) Rs. 16,500
(B) Rs.16,000
(C) Rs. 16,800
(D) Cannot be known since data are insufficient
1707: Hybridisation is useful in developing improved crops by:
(a) Creating new and better genes
(b) Eliminating undesirable genes
(c) Producing favourable combination of genes
(d) By encouraging favourable genes and removing unfavourable ones
1708: The Hunter Commission was appointed after the
(a) Black hole incident
(b) Jalianwallabagh massacre
(c) Uprising of 1857
(d) Partition of Bengal
1709: Who started Bhoodan Movement in India?
(a) Gandhiji
(b) Jayaprakash Narayan
(c) Vinoba Bhave
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
1710: The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, whose permission is required for cultivation of any genetically modified crop such as Bt-Cotton in India, is under the Union Minister of
(a) Agriculture
(b) Environment and Forests
(c) Commerce and Industry
(d) Rural Development