Section A
1. Who are people prone to food insecurity?
2.Who were the Bolsheviks?
3. What is buffer stock?
4.Correct the following statement: "Hoarding food grains by
wholesalers and retailers is an important strategy for Food
Security.”
5.Among the executives, what makes the minister more powerful
than a civil servant?
6. Which group in the Russian society was welcoming of change?
a) Radicals
b) Liberals
c) Conservatives
d) Tsar
7. What is a subsidy?
8. What is judicial review?
9. When were the banks and industries in Russia nationalized?
10. One of the executive powers of the President of India is that
he/she can
a. Appoint the Auditor General and the Attorney General of India
b. Pardon/suspend the death sentence given by any court.
c. He/she can declare war or peace with any country.
d. He/she can dissolve the parliament and order fresh elections.
11. What is PIL?
12. The word for Russian Parliament is
Answers
Answer:
1.a large section of people suffer from food and nutrition insecurity in India. (ii) The worst affected groups are landless people with little or no land to depend upon, traditional artisans, and providers of traditional services, petty self-employed workers and destitute including beggars.
2.The Bolsheviks, also known in English as the Bolshevists, were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov that split from the Menshevik.
Founded: 1903, Brussels, Belgium
Founders: Vladimir Lenin, Alexander Bogdanov
3.A buffer stock scheme is an attempt to use commodity storage for the purposes of stabilising prices in an entire economy or an individual market. Specifically, commodities are bought when a surplus exists in the economy, stored, and are then sold from these stores when economic shortages in the economy occur.
7.money that the government, etc. pays to help an organization or to keep the cost of a service low.
8.Judicial review is a process under which executive or legislative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.
9.Central Executive Committee, Decree on Nationalization of Banks. December 27, 1917.
11.Public interest litigation refers to litigation undertaken to secure public interest and demonstrates the availability of justice to socially-disadvantaged parties and was introduced by Justice P. N. Bhagwati. It is a relaxation on the traditional rule of locus standi.
12.After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation in 1993 replaced its old Soviet-era constitution with a new document that revived the name “State Duma” for the lower house of the newly created Federal Assembly, or Russian national parliament. (The Federation Council comprised the upper house.)