JPSC Prelims Paper 2 Mock Test - 9 - JPSC (Jharkhand) MCQ

• The assistant to the village headman in a Santhal village is called Pramanik.
• Santals have well-developed political organization.
  • In the Manjhi administrative system, Manjhi is the secular village Headman.
  • The Sub-head or assistant to the village Headman of Manjhi in the community system of Santals is called Parmanik.
  • Jog Manjhi is the deputy village Headman.
  • Jog Parmanik is deputy to the Parmanik.

• The level of urbanisation was the highest in Dhanbad as per the Jharkhand Economic Survey 2019-2020.
• As per the Jharkhand Economic Survey 2019-2020, the level of urbanisation in Jharkhand is less than that of the national average.
• Jharkhand with an urban population of 24.05% is growing at the rate of 2.3% per annum, however less than the National Average of 31.16%.
• As per the Census 2011, only 24.05 per cent population of the state lived in the urban areas while the corresponding figure at the national level was 32 per cent.
• The level of urbanisation was the highest in the Dhanbad district where more than fifty per cent of the population live in the urban areas followed by Purbi Singhbhum and Bokaro. 

• The observed climate change in Jharkhand is because of Anthropogenic factors, the Energy sector, and Greenhouse emissions, among other factors.
• Anthropogenic factors constitute the primary deterministic causes of species declines, endangerment and extinction:
  • land development
  • overexploitation
  • species translocations and introductions
  • pollution.
• The primary anthropogenic factors produce ecological and genetic effects contributing to extinction risk.
• All the major climate change projects predict an increase in rainfall in the state of Jharkhand.
• It is clear that anthropogenic greenhouse gases (mostly CO₂) are responsible for weather pattern shifts and global mean temperature rise (UNFCCC, 2007).
• The summer temperature will go up by a maximum of 2-3⁰ C during 2020-2050 whereas the average winter temperature will go up by 4.78-5.2⁰ C during the same duration.
• The agriculture productivity will decrease in the state as the temperature rises. The forestry resources, being the cheapest available carbon sink, will also suffer.
• This will not only affect the plant species but will force the fauna to make adjustments to altered conditions by moving to newer locations.
• Thermal power plants in the state of Jharkhand mostly run on coal. It is no brainer that it contributes to global warming It is estimated that the net GHG emissions will reach almost 105 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
• Apart from the direct emission from electricity generation, a large number of emissions take place from fuel (especially diesel) to meet the power deficit situation.

• Jharkhand Birsa Harit Gram Yojana was announced on May 4, 2020.
• This scheme was started by Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
• The Jharkhand Birsa Harit Gram Yojana aims to use over 2 lakh acres of unused government fallow land for afforestation.
• Around 5 lakh families will be given nearly 100 fruit-bearing plants in one unit and the initial plantation, maintenance, land work and afforestation works will be taken up through MGNREGA. Hence options 1 & 3 are correct.
• The sides of village approach roads, as well as inner roads, can also be used for linear plantation. Hence option 2 is correct.
• Hence, it is not true that one unit can be planted in one village.
• The Unique Selling Point of this scheme is that the person engaged in planting such trees and taking their care will be reaping the benefits of the produce.
• Each family is estimated to receive an annual income of Rs. 50,000 every year. The ownership of the land however will remain with the government.

• JHARCRAFT was established in 2006.
• It is also known as Jharkhand Silk Textile and Handicraft Development Corporation Ltd.
• It is a government of Jharkhand undertaking.
• Jharcraft was formed to create sustainable livelihood opportunities in the rural areas, based on Sericulture, Handloom, Handicraft and other allied activities.
• It supports the whole value chain of production and marketing including, providing raw materials, training, designs and marketing.
• The poor artisans of Jharkhand who have recognised silk production as a source of income have enhanced their skills in quality and varieties of products like organic fabrics, silk sarees, Designer garments, Home Furnishing etc.
• In the first year, the organisation was engaged in organizing production units of various categories. 
• Today, it provides both, forward and backward linkage to the Handloom and Handicrafts sectors for a sustainable source of livelihood.

• River Kanhar originates from Sarguja of Chattisgarh.
• It enters Jharkhand from Bhandaria block of Garhwa District.
• It flows through Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.
• It is a tributary of the Son river.
• It features a number of waterfalls like Pavai Falls, Gur-Sindhu Falls, and Sukhdari Falls.
• Presently, the Kanhar Hydroelectric Project including the Kanhar River development scheme is centred on Kanhar Reservoir on the Baradih, Garhwa District.
• Tributaries- Suria, Sendur, Galphulla, Goita, Chana, Lanva, Theme, Hathinala, Riger, Pandu, Kursa, and Cherna Nallah.

• Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act:
  • It is the first codified law of tenancy in the Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand.
  • It prohibits the sale of Adivasi land to Non-Adivasis in the Santhal Pargana region accompanied by Jharkhand’s border with Bengal.
• Santhal Pargana is located in Jharkhand and it comprises six districts in the northeastern part of the state- Dhumka (sub-capital of the state), Deoghar, Godda, Pakur, Sahi Bganj and Jamtara.
• Section 14- Raiyats not to be ejected by order of the Deputy Commissioner
• Section 19- Division of holding and distribution of rent
• Section 20- Transfer of raiyat's rights
• Section 21- Transfer of raiyati land by bhugut-bandha or complete usufructuary mortgage by a non-aboriginal raiyat and its limits

• The 2011 National Games (34th National Games) was held from 12 February 2011 to 26 February 2011 in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
• It was inaugurated at the Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi by then Jharkhand Governor- M.O.H. Farook.
• Mascot-Chhaua, a deer in running motion holding the torch. Hence, statement 2 is correct.
• It depicts the body of a human and the head of a stag, symbolising both stillness and energy that characterise Jharkhand’s tribal communities.
• The state of Jharkhand won 33 gold, 26 silver, and 37 bronze; totalling 96 medals. Hence, statement 3 is correct.
• The positions bagged in the game-
  • First- Services Sports Control Board
  • Second- Manipur
  • Third- Haryana
  • Fourth- Maharastra
  • Fifth- Jharkhand

Hence, statement 4 is not correct.

• RamRekha Dham is the holy place which is about 26 K.M from Simdega, Jharkhand.
• It is believed that Lord Rama, Seeta, and Laxman visited this place while they were in exile as per Hindu Mythology.
• Some archaeological structures like Agni Kund, charan paduka, Sita chulha, gupt ganga etc. shows that during the exile period they followed this path.
• People visit RamRekha Dham to view these archaeological structures and the temple of Lord Rama, Maa Sita, Laxman, Hanumana and Lord Shiva which lies in a bowed cave.
• Every Year on Kartik Purnima a Mela is organised here.

• In 1929, the Simon Commission was submitted with a memorandum in which there was a demand for the separation of the state of Jharkhand.
• In 1947, when India became independent, the All India Jharkhand Party was formed.
• The Jharkhand movement demanded the creation of the state of Jharkhand within the Indian Union with all the federalist autonomous trappings of the Constitution.
• However, they had been able to secure a development council for the region called the Jharkhand Area Autonomous Council (JAAC). 
• A Committee on Jharkhand matters (COJM) was appointed and by 1995, Bihar Vidhan Sabha had legislated to create the Jharkhand Area Autonomous Council (JAAC).
• The Council consisted of eighteen districts of Santhal Pargana and Chotanagpur.
• In July 1997, the Bihar government adopted a resolution for the formation of the state of Jharkhand.
• Accordingly, the new state of Jharkhand was formed on 15th November 2000.

Jharkhand's water table had declined by an average of three meters between 2009 and 2010, from 20 meters to 17 meters.

• Shri SLS Jageshwar, director of groundwater and minor irrigation said that 8 years ago the decline in water table level before and after monsoon was in centimeters and now it is in meters.
• The state government had declared all the 24 districts drought-hit in 2010.
• There were no rains for more than a month.
• Forced by this upheaval farmers in the state suffered to stay afloat.
• Due to a huge shortage of fodder, many of them sold off their most prized possession i.e. their cattle.

• Jharkhand state has three climate regions.
• Jharkhand forms a part of agro-climatic Zone VII known as Eastern Plateau and Hill Region.

The state has been further classified into three agro-climatic regions: Central and North-eastern Plateau (Region-I), Western Plateau (Region-II), and South-eastern Plateau (Region-III). 
Central and North-eastern Plateau (Region-I) has tropical monsoon, Western Plateau (Region-II), and South-eastern Plateau (Region-III) has humid to subtropical monsoon.
The main seasons are summer, rainy, autumn, winter, and spring. 

To maintain a balance between industrial growth and the environment, the Jharkhand government launched Mukhyamantri Jan Van Yojana in Jharkhand.

• The aim of this was to reduce the burden on the forest department and to promote plantation on private land among the farmers and common people.
• This aims at increasing the green area cover on private lands as well.
• Under this, expenditure will be borne partly by the forest department and partly by the common people.
• It will also promote groundwater conservation through plantations and farmers can increase their income through planting trees.
• 50% of expenditure done by the common man on planting and maintaining the plants will be borne by the Forest Department under this scheme. 
• The main objectives of Mukhyamantri Jan Van Yojana are as follows:-
  • To maintain environmental balance by increasing the green cover of the state.
  • To Conserve groundwater through the plantation.
  • To reduce the pressure on notified forests by promoting forest produce production in the private sector.
  • To increase the income of farmers by planting trees on their land.
  • Enhancing forest cover with public cooperation in the State.

Industrial policy 2016 aimed at higher capital formation, increasing the wages of the people and provide employment opportunities to the people.

• The Government of Jharkhand gave priority to industrial growth in order to reduce poverty and employment.
• It aimed to create an industry-friendly environment to maximize investment in mineral and natural resource-based industries.
• Under this policy, the state government collaborated with GAIL for the infrastructure development of the power.
• The aim was to provide 100% rural electrification by 2017 to 32000 villages.
• At the time of this policy, there was only 15% rural electrification.
• Decisions were taken to open the State Power sector for private investment and also a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Government of India to make reforms in the power sector.

• Tilaiya Dam is constructed on the river Barakar.
• Tilaiya Dam was the first of the four multi-purpose dams included in the first phase of the Damodar Valley Corporation.
• It was constructed across the Barakar River, at Tilaiya in Koderma district in the Indian state of Jharkhand and opened in 1953.
• The dam is 1200 ft long and 99 ft high situated in an ideal surrounding with a beautiful reservoir in 36 sq km area.
• Built with the main object of controlling floods, the hydro -electric station produces 4MW. 

• Under the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, a female of a Khunt-Kattidar is excluded from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties.
• When the forthwith landlord of an occupancy holding is a proprietor or an abiding tenure-holder and the entire interests of the landlords
• The Raiyat in the holding become composite in the same person by transfer, succession, or otherwise, such a person, shall hold the land as a proprietor or permanent tenure-holder, as the case may be, and shall not hold it by any inferior right whatsoever; but nothing in this subsection shall prejudicially affect the rights of any third person.
• The words "male descendants" wherever occurring, would comprise females.

• Ranchi University was established on 12th July 1960.
• Before this university came up, the colleges under its jurisdiction were under Patna University.
• The university now expands into five districts of Jharkhand namely Khunti, Gumla, Ranchi, Simdega and Lohardaga.
• Its first Vice-Chancellor was Bishnudeo Narayan Singh.
• The chancellor of this university is the governor of the state.
• Till 2000, the governor of Bihar was its chancellor and after the division of the state from 2000 governor of Jharkhand is the chancellor.

Langade is a dance form. It is a famous dance of Chattisgarh.

• The Langade dance is performed with one leg bowed.
• This dance is performed on any occasion of joy and any festival like in the Sohray festival.
• Langde has many forms and variations that are performed according to the occasion.
• Every village has a specific common ground where they gather and dance together.
• In some places variation of this dance form is performed like Langde.

Albert Ekka 

• He was the hero of the ‘Brigade of the Guards’ of the Army.
• He was martyred while thwarting the enemy attack in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
• The Government of India posthumously awarded the highest military honor ‘Paramveer Chakra’ to him.
• He was born on 27 December 1942 in a tribal Christian family in Zari village of Gumla district. 

Birsa Munda

• Birsa Munda was a young freedom fighter and a tribal leader, whose spirit of activism in the late nineteenth century is remembered to be a strong mark of protest against British rule in India.

Tilka Majhi

• He was also the first Adivasi leader from Manjhi Community who was considered as 2nd fighter after Maharana Pratap.
• He took up arms against the British in 1784.
• He organized the Adivasis to form an armed group to fight against the resource grabbing and exploitation of the British.

Jatra Oraon

• He was an Indian tribal freedom fighter and social reformist. He was the founder of the Tana Bhagat Movement among the Oraon tribe. Tana Bhagat alias Jatra Oraon was born in September 1888 at Chingari Navatoli village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand.

• The amount of annual tribute agreed to be paid by the Nagbanshi ruler Raja Durjan Sal to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1628 was Rupees 6000.
• Raha Durjan Sal was a Nagvanshi king in the 17th century.
• He succeeded his father Bairisal in 1614.
• He agreed to pay an annual tribute of Rs. 6000 to Jahangir for the title of Shah to be conferred to him.
• Durjan Sal was remembered from prison to identify real diamonds after staying twelve years in prison.
• He pointed out a flaw and proved himself right.
• He tied the diamonds to the end of horn of a ram and made it fight with another ram, while flaw diamond split other remains intact.

• The former American President Barack Obama belongs to Democratic Party.

Barack Obama

• Barack Hussein Obama is an American politician and attorney who was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.
• He was the 1st African American president of the United States.
• He belonged to Democratic Party.
• Obama was born in Honululu, Hawai.
• His biggest achievement was to bring the "Obama Care" health scheme.
• In his re-election, he defeated Mitt Romney.
• He authored "A Promised Land", "Dreams From My Father", "The Audacity of Hope".

• Marion Bartoli winner of the Women's Singles title of Wimbledon, 2013, belongs to France.

Wimbledon:

• It was founded in the year 1877.
• Till now it has organized 133 editions.
• It is hosted in London, England, United Kingdom.
• The match is conducted on Grass Outdoor.
• The Prize money for the tournament is £34,000,000.
• The current champions are - Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep.

• ​Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara got the Best Film Award at the Filmfare Awards 2012.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara:

• Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language friends road comedy-drama film directed by Zoya Akhtar and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani of Excel Entertainment.
• The film features a cast consisting of Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, and Kalki Koechlin.
• It was filmed in Spain, India, Egypt, and the United Kingdom with a budget of ₹550 million (US$7.7 million).
• The music and score were composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy with lyrics by Javed Akhtar.

• Chlorine gas is used in the purification of drinking water.

Chlorine

• Chlorine (Cl), chemical element, the second lightest member of the halogen family elements, or Group 17 (Group VIIa) of the periodic table.
• Chlorine is a toxic, corrosive, greenish-yellow gas that is jittery to the eyes and to the respiratory system.
• Apart from very small amounts of free chlorine (Cl) in volcanic gases.
• Chlorine is generally found only in the form of chemical compounds.
• It accumulates 0.017 percent of Earth’s crust.
• Natural chlorine is a mixture of two stationary isotopes: chlorine-35 (75.53 percent) and chlorine-37 (24.47 percent).
• The most general compound of chlorine is sodium chloride, which is found in nature as crystalline rock salt, often discolored by impurities.
• Sodium chloride is also found in seawater, which has an average concentration of about 2 percent of that salt.

Uses of other elements

• Helium - It is used to provide an inert protective atmosphere for making fiber optics and semiconductors, and for arc welding.
• Fluorine - It is used in semiconductor manufacturing for plasma etching, flat panel display production.
• Carbon Dioxide - It is used as a refrigerant, in fire extinguishers, for inflating life rafts and life jackets. 

• Starch is digested with the help of saliva.

Starch

• Starch, a white, granular, organic chemical that is produced by all green plants.
• Starch is a soft, white, tasteless powder that is insoluble in cold water, alcohol, or other solvents.
• The basic chemical formula of the starch molecule is (C6H10O5)n.
• Starch is a polysaccharide comprising glucose monomers joined in α 1,4 linkages.
• The simplest form of starch is the linear polymer amylose; amylopectin is the branched form.

Protein-rich food - Dairy Products, Lean meats, Poultry
Fiber-rich food - Wholegrain breakfast cerals, wholewheat Pasta, Pears, Berries, Melon

The reason for dental caries is a bacterial infection.
Dental infections

• Dental infections most commonly occur when bacteria invade the pulp and spread to surrounding tissues.
• This can be due to dental caries, trauma, or dental procedures.
• Periodontal infections first involve the gingival tissues causing gingivitis and, over time, periodontitis.

Until the 20th Century, Pneumonia was the leading lethal bacterial disease.
Diseases caused by Bacteria

• Cholera
• Leprosy
• Tuberculosis
• Plague
• Syphilis

• Earthworm burrows increase soil porosity which increases the amount of air and water that get into the soil.
• Increased porosity also lowers bulk density and increases root development.

This proves that the reason is true and that earthworms are considered good for agriculture.
Hence the assertion is false and the reason is true.

• Out of the given figures, Figure 'D' is divided into 4 different parts but the other three figures present are divided into four equal parts.
• Therefore, Figure 'D' does not share the common characteristics with the other three figures.

Hence, the answer is option 4.

Four ladies A, B, C, D and four gentlemen E, F, G, H are sitting in a circle around a table facing each other.
(i) C, who is sitting between G and E, is facing D.

(ii) F is between D and A and is facing G.
(iii) H is to the right of B.
CASE 1 

CASE 2

(iv) No two ladies or two gentlemen are sitting side by side.
Case 1 is eliminated because B and D or H and G are sitting together and it is clearly mentioned that no two ladies or two gentlemen are sitting side by side.

E is facing towards H.
Hence, the answer is H.

• 7² + 3² = 49 + 9 = 58
• 1² + 3² = 1 + 9 =10
• 2² + 4² = 4 + 16 = 20
• 5² + 6² = 25 + 36 = 61 

The correct answer is 5(51)6.