Test: HP TGT Arts General Awareness and EVS Mock - 6 - Software Development MCQ

Laxmi Narayan Temple:

• Constructed by Raja Sahil Varman, believed to be the founder of modern Chamba in 920 AD, the Laxmi Narayan Temple is the main shrine in the town that has a group of six temples.
• It is located in the Chamba district.
• Known for fine classical forms, the temple has been built in shikhara (spire) style with wooden chhatris (cenotaphs) and a shell roof.
• Besides the idol of Lord Vishnu, who is the presiding deity, the temple houses a metallic image of Garuda, the lord's mount.
• Other temples in the complex include the Radha Krishna Temple that was constructed by Rani Sarda in 1825, Gauri Shankar Temple commissioned by Yugkar Varman, the son of Sahil Varman, and the Shiva Temple of Chandragupta that was built by Sahil Varman.

Michael Douglas will be conferred with the Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award at the 54th International Film Festival in Goa, recognizing his significant contributions to the world of cinema. He has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He is also known for his iconic roles in films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Fatal Attraction," and "Wall Street."

The tallest statue in the World of Sardar Patel which was inaugurated by Sh. Narendra Modi is 182 meters tall. This statue is called as Statue of Unity.

The Statue is located on the Narmada River. On 31 October 2018, The Statue of Unity was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Madhya Pradesh won their maiden Ranji Trophy title, beating tournament heavyweights Mumbai by 6 wickets in the final at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

The Ranji team of Madhya Pradesh played under the leadership of Aditya Shrivastava. The team defeated 41-time champions Mumbai. The team was coached by former India wicketkeeper-batsman Chandrakant Pandit. M Chinnaswamy Stadium is a cricket stadium located in Bangalore, Karnataka. Formerly known as the Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, it was later rechristened as a tribute to Mangalam Chinnaswamy, a lawyer from Mandya and a founding member of the Mysore State Cricket Association.

International Women’s Day is being celebrated on 8th March every year to celebrates women’s social, economical, cultural, and political achievements and their increasing visibility in every sphere of life. The theme of 2020 International Women’s Day was “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”.

The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering Union and State election processes in India. Part XV of the Indian constitution deals with elections and establishes a commission for these matters.

Functions of ECI:

• It ensures that political parties and candidates adhere to the Model Code of Conduct.
• Regulates and registers political parties as per eligibility to contest in elections. So, statement 1 is correct.
• Put a limit on campaign expenditure per candidate to all parties.
• All political parties must submit annual reports to the ECI to be able to claim the tax benefit on the contributions.
• Guarantees that all political parties regularly submit audited financial reports.​
• Supervise, control and conduct all elections to Parliament and State Legislatures.
• Prepares electoral rolls. So, statement 3 is correct.
• Managing the election process from notification of election dates to the declaration of results.
• It can cancel the polls in event of any irregularity like rigging, booth capture, violence, etc.
• Allot election symbols to political parties or candidates. So, statement 2 is correct.
• Advising to the President or Governor in matters relating to the disqualification of sitting legislators except under Schedule 10. So, statement 4 is correct.
• It acts as a court for settling disputes related to the granting of recognition and allotment of symbols to political parties.

Pitts India Act, 1784

• It distinguished between the commercial and political functions of the Company.
• It allowed the Court of Directors to manage the commercial affairs but created a new body called the Board of Control to manage the political affairs.
• Thus, it established a system of double government.
• It empowered the Board of Control to supervise and direct all operations of the civil and military government or revenues of the British possessions in India.

Shikari Devi Wildlife Sanctuary is located in areas of outer Seraj areas such as Janjehli in Mandi District.

It was first notified as a sanctuary in 1962 and re-notified on 27th March 1974. This sanctuary is named after the goddess Shikari Devi, to whom a temple situated within the sanctuary is dedicated.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has developed 'National Single Window System (NSWS)' for India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO).

Art and craft should be integrated in EVS teaching, because it promotes creativity, discipline in the class and inclusion.

Assessment through art integrated learning helps the facilitator to move away from the traditional paper-pencil or oral and recall method towards a continuous and comprehensive assessment method which can help assess both the learning of the subject as well as the socio-emotional development of the student.

Defence Ministry sector receives the highest allocation  with ₹6.1 lakh crore in the Budget for 2024-25.

Bhutan emerged as the primary beneficiary of Indian aid in the Interim Budget 2024, receiving ₹2,398.97 crores, showcasing India's commitment to supporting its neighbouring countries' development initiatives.

The Dzüko Valley is a valley located on the borders of the state of Nagaland and Manipur of northeast India. This valley is well known for its natural environment, seasonal flowers, and flora and fauna. It is situated at an altitude of 2452 m above sea level.

On January 6, 1899, Lord Curzon was appointed the new Governor-General and Viceroy of India.

He was the youngest Viceroy of India. This was a time when British unpopularity was increasing due to the impact of recurring famine and the plague. Lord Curzon supported the selection of Shimla as the summer capital of British India in these words-"It is the only place in India where a Viceroy can keep himself free from office workload".

Curzon did little to change the opinion of the educated Indian class. Instead of engaging with the nationalist intelligentsia, he implemented a series of repressive measures. For instance, he reduced the number of elected Indian representatives in the Calcutta Corporation (1899). The University Act of 1904 brought Calcutta University under the direct control of the government. The Official Secrets Act (1904) was amended to curb the nationalist tone of Indian newspapers.

The dialect spoken in Bilaspur district of H.P is Kahluri. Bilaspuri or Kahluri is a language spoken in northern India, predominantly in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh and in the Rupnagar district of the Punjab state. It is associated with the people of the former princely state of Bilaspur in the Panjab Hills. Kahluri is classified as one of the varieties of the Western Pahari language group. However, Kahluri is listed as Punjabi in the census.

Nepal hosted the 13th South Asian Games in the year 2019. The South Asian Games is a multi-sport biennial event that is held among the South Asian athletes. 27 games were played in the 2019 iteration of South Asian Games. The first South Asian Games were hosted by Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984.

The Panchayati Raj System is described in Part of the Indian Constitution. Rajasthan is the first state where this system was first implemented in in Nagaur District. Later, it also became the first state to have this system placed in all the districts of the state. The Amendment is associated with this system in India.

Provisions under Indian Councils Act, 1861

• The 1861 Act marked an advance in that the principle of representatives of non-officials in legislative bodies became accepted; laws were to be made after due deliberation, and as pieces of legislation they could be changed only by the same deliberative process.
• Law-making was thus no longer seen as the exclusive business of the executive.
• The portfolio system introduced by Lord Canning laid the foundations of cabinet government in India, each branch of the administration having its official head and spokesman in the government, who was responsible for its administration.
• The Act by vesting legislative powers in the Governments of Bombay and Madras and by making provision for the institution of similar legislative councils in other provinces laid the foundations of legislative devolution.
• The councils could not discuss important matters and no financial matters at all without previous approval of government.
• They had no control over budget.

Problems related to environmental education syllabus in EVS teaching is not related to lack of resources problem.

Problems related to environmental education system - the subject matter of EVS is complex and difficult for learners at primary level . How to make the subject matter easily comprehensible? It is the major challenge while teaching small children. 

The resource based problems are:

• Difficulty in making use of public resources
• EVS closely related to science
• Lack of experienced teachers

The integrated nature of EVS at primary level favours concepts & issues of science, social science and environment education are integrated, the child looks his/her environment in a holistic manner and it is theme based.

EVS stands for Environmental Studies. As the name suggests, it is the study of the environment that refers to the surroundings in which we live. The components of the environment comprise everything that supports the survival of humans directly or indirectly. As per of EVS curriculum, children at the Primary Stage are expected to; acquire awareness about immediate/wider surroundings through lived experiences on various themes and subthemes related to daily life for example Family, Plants, Animals, Food, and Water, Travel, Shelter, etc.

Bhakra Dam is the largest dam in Himachal Pradesh.

Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam forms the Govind Sagar reservoir. The dam, located at a gorge near the (now submerged) upstream Bhakra village in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh of height 226 m. The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m. Its reservoir is known as "Gobind Sagar" stores up to 9.34 billion cubic metres of water.

Smith Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Ross & Smith Islands requires a forest permit from the Forest Office at Diglipur.

Bhakra Dam is the largest dam in  Himachal Pradesh.

Bhakra Dam:

• Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh in northern India.
• The dam forms the Govind Sagar reservoir.
• The dam, located at a gorge near the (now submerged)
• upstream Bhakra village in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh of height 226 m
• The length of the dam (measured from the road above it) is 518.25 m and the width is 9.1 m.
• Its reservoir is known as "Gobind Sagar" stores up to billion cubic metres of water.
• The 90 km long reservoir created by the Bhakra Dam is spread over an area of 168.35 km}
• In terms of quantity of water, it is the third-largest reservoir in India, the first being the Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh with a capacity of 12.22 billion cubic metres and the second Nagarjunasagar Dam.

The Official currency of Europe is Euro.

Yen is the official currency of Japan.

Dollar is the official currency of USA.

Pound is the official currency of United Kingdom.

‘Sujanpur Tira’ is famous for Holi festival. Holi was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Sujanpur Tira town of Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur district, which is famous for a fair during the festival of colours. The main function was held in the huge Chaugan ground at Sujanpur Tira, where thousands of men, women and children celebrated Holi.

The first successful taste in the Pokhran region of the Thar desert took place in the year 1974. The name of the testing operation was “Pokhran I” or “Operation Smiling Buddha”. The test was conducted on May 18, 1974, under the supervision of Raja Ramanna, who was then the director of India's premier nuclear research institute Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). The test was named 'Smiling Buddha' because it was conducted on Buddha Purnima that year.

Learning through experience, learning from concrete to abstract, known to unknown and contextual nature of EVS. is true in relation to the EVS learning.

EVS learning should be designed in a logical manner according to the thinking capacity of the learners because it has many concepts and they may overlap with each other if the wrong approach is followed. Approaches to learning EVS:

• Be real-life based i.e contextual and enjoyable for the students.
• Be safe for the students.
• Designed from known to unknown and concrete to abstract.
• Focus on the experiences of the child.
• Involve all students.
• Be appropriate for the age group of students.
• Be such that these awaken interest, and curiosity, provide meaningful information and create a self-directed learning process for the child.

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are gaseous components of the atmosphere that contribute to the 'greenhouse effect'. Greenhouse gases include water vapour(H2O), carbon dioxide(CO2), methane(CH4), nitrous oxide(N2O), and ozone(O3).

Treaty of Sagauli was signed between the kingdom of Gorkha and British East India company that result in the arrival of the British on the Shimla Hill States.

The resulting Treaty of Segauli (1816) gave the British the tract of hill country where Shimla (Simla), the site of the future summer capital of British India, was situated, and it settled relations between Nepal and British India for the rest of the British period.

The Climate Conference 2024, themed “Decoding the Green Transition for India,” was recently held on January 12, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was organized by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.