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UPSC CDS Indian Demographics — practice questions — page 7

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Freedom from hunger, poverty and illiteracy is the key to:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the top HDI statesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Swachh Bharat aimsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the development wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Improved or worsenedRead the answer and worked solution →Poverty bandsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Human development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A cluster of dwellings where people live and command a territory as economic base is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Small, sparsely spaced settlements specialising in agriculture are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Urban settlements specialise in:Read the answer and worked solution →A compact, closely built village with farms outside it, common in the northern plains, is:Read the answer and worked solution →In Rajasthan, compact settlements are necessitated by scarcity of:Read the answer and worked solution →In Bundelkhand and Nagaland, people live in compact villages mainly for:Read the answer and worked solution →Semi-clustered settlements, where dominant groups hold the centre and others the flanks, are widespread in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Isolated huts on remote hills in Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Kerala form which settlement type?Read the answer and worked solution →Varanasi, Prayag, Pataliputra and Madurai are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Agra grew as fort towns in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Europeans first developed trading ports such as Surat, Daman, Goa and:Read the answer and worked solution →The British consolidated their hold around three principal nodes: Mumbai, Chennai and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which town is cited as a modern industrial town that evolved after 1850?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar and Gandhinagar were developed after independence as:Read the answer and worked solution →Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Gurugram around Delhi are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →The level of urbanisation in India in 2011 was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Census classifies urban centres into how many classes?Read the answer and worked solution →An urban centre with more than one lakh people is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Cities with more than five million people are:Read the answer and worked solution →More than 60 percent of India's urban population lives in:Read the answer and worked solution →How many of India's cities are metropolitan cities or urban agglomerations?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Freedom from hunger, poverty and illiteracy is the key to:

  1. Trade surplus
  2. Tax collection
  3. Urban growth
  4. Human development
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Correct answer: D. Human development

1. Development is freedom. 2. Empowerment and participation follow. 3. This is the key to human development. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 3, Human Development._

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Catch the top HDI states

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Kerala
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Delhi
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Himachal
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Goa
  5. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Punjab
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Bihar
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Odisha
  8. Matches the category
    No
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    Chhattisgarh
Category
Top HDI state
Instructions
Catch the states at the top of the HDI ranking. Let the bottom states fall.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 3, Human Development._

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Pop the Swachh Bharat aims

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Other terms
  1. Tariffs
  2. Licences
  3. Tolls
Matching terms
  1. ODF
  2. Solid waste
  3. LPG
  4. Clean water
  5. Solar
Instructions
Pop the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 3, Human Development._

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