JPSC Prelims Paper 2 Mock Test - 4 - JPSC (Jharkhand) MCQ

• Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari was one of the prominent leaders in the movement for a separate state of Jharkhand.
  • He was a member of the "Jharkhand coordinator committee" along with Ram Dayal Munda and Binod Bihari Mahato.
  • He established "Nagpuri Sansthan" on 17 February 2002 with his wife Shanti Keshri in Pithoria.
• According to B.P. Kesari, Bhumihar caste is not considered Sadan.
• Sadan refers to non-tribal Indo-Aryan ethnic groups of Jharkhand.
  • These people are generally known for their agricultural activities.
  • There is a fundamental difference between Sadans and Adivasis- Adivasis are tribes and Sadans are communities.
  • The Adivasis are nomadic while the Sadans form permanent residence.
• Some of the languages used by them are:
  • Nagpiri
  • Kurmali
  • Khortha
  • Panchpargania
• B.P. Kesari believed that the original form of these languages must have developed in different tribes of Nagajati. But language is not limited to caste only.

• The share of the Industrial sector in the Group State Value Added (GSVA) of Jharkhand in the year 2019-2020 (Pr) is about 39%.
• The Gross State Value Added (GSVA) is the summation of value addition made by enterprises, Government and households.
• The GDP or GSDP is equal to GSVA at basic prices + product taxes – product subsidies.
• As per the Economic Survey 2019-20 of Jharkhand, sector-wise GSVA is given as under- 
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing- 14.5%
  • Crops- 7.8%
  • Forestry and logging- 3.5%
  • Industry- 38.8%
  • Manufacturing- 20.5%
  • Railways- 2.5%
• Among the three major sectors (the primary, the secondary and the tertiary) of the state’s economy, the tertiary sector grew at the fastest rate the year (2019-20).
• While the primary sector had been estimated to grow at the rate of 3.6 per cent and the secondary sector at the rate of 3.8 per cent, the tertiary sector was estimated to grow at the rate of 8.3 per cent this year (2019-20).

• The district that has been chosen for Green India Mission under NAPCC is Saraikela Kharsawan.
• The National Mission for a Green India or the commonly called Green India Mission (GIM), is one of the eight Missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
• It was launched in February 2014 with the objective to safeguard the biological resources of our nation and associated livelihoods against the peril of adverse climate change and to recognise the vital impact of forestry on ecological sustainability, biodiversity conservation and food-, water- and livelihood security.
• It aims at protecting, restoring and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover and responding to climate change through adaptation and mitigation measures.
• In 2015, in Jharkhand, eighteen villages had been identified under union government-sponsored 'Green India Mission' for undertaking eco-friendly development programmes in the areas falling under Seraikela forest division in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand.

• Palamau Sanctuary
  • Palamau Tiger Reserve forms part of Betla National Park and Palamau Wildlife Sanctuary.
  • Palamau Wildlife Sanctuary was initially created over a forest area of 979.97 Sq. Km. and since then an area of 226.32 sq. Km. of this sanctuary has been notified as Betla National Park.
  • Forests here are of Dry as well as Moist Deciduous types with bamboo brakes.
  • It was established in 1973.
  • It is the oldest in terms of its establishment.
• Topchanchi Sanctuary Dhanbad 
  • It covers an area of 8.75 square kilometers.
  • The forests here are of Dry Mixed Deciduous type.
  • The grassland and bamboo crops are also present.
  • Leopard, Jungle Cat, Cheetal, Barking Deer, Wild Boar, Mongoose, Langur, Jackal, Fox, Wild Dog etc. constitute the mammal fauna here.
  • It was established in 1978.
• Gautam Budha Sanctuary Koderma
  • It covers an area of 259 km².
  • It covers portions of the Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests and Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests eco-regions.
  • Fauna includes tigers, leopards, wolves, sloth bears, chitals, chinkaras, and many species of birds.
  • It was established in 1976.
• Udhwa Lake Bird Sanctuary, Sahabganj
  • It is one of the natural abodes for a number of different types of birds.
  • It is named after Saint Uddhava, a friend of Lord Krishna in Mahabharatha.
  • The sanctuary is called a lake sanctuary as it has two backwater lakes over the river Ganga, Patoura, and Bareil within its boundaries. 
  • It was established in the year 1991.

• Damodar Valley Corporation came into existence on 7th July 1948 as the first multipurpose river valley project of Independent India.
• The Government of West Bengal, Bihar (now Jharkhand area), and the Central Government formed the corporation.
• It operates both thermal power stations and hydel power stations under the Ministry of Power, Govt of India
• DVC has been generating and transmitting power since 1953. There are two Hydel Stations under DVC in Jharkhand-
  • Panchet Hydel Station- 80 MW capacity
  • Tilaiya Hydel Station- 4 MW capacity
• There is one Hydel Station under DVC in West Bengal-
  • Maithon Hydel Station- 63.2 MW capacity.
• The total capacity comes out to be 147.2 MW.

• The India State of Forest Report 2019 released shows an increase of 5,188 square kilometres of forest and tree cover across the country compared to the ISFR 2017.
• As per ISFR 2019 published by the Forest Survey of India, the forest cover of Jharkhand is 23,611 sq km which is 29.62% of the total geographical area of the State, recording an increase of 58.41 sq km since 2017.
• The Per capita forest and tree cover in Jharkhand is 0.08 hectares.
• The state has a geographical area of 79,714 km² and represents 2.42% of the country’s area.
• Of the total recorded forest area, Reserved Forests comprise 18.58%, Protected Forests 81.28%, and Unclassed Forests 0.14%.
• The total forest and tree cover recorded together constitutes about 33.21% of the geographical area of the state. 

• Right to fair compensation and transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment) Act, 2017 
  • The Act shall be deemed to have come into effect on 1st January 2014.
  •  It amended the Right to fair compensation and transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment) Act, 2013.
• The Act shall be deemed to have come into effect on 1st January 2014.
• Section 10A of the amended Act exempts government infrastructure projects, including schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, panchayat buildings, Anganwadi centres, rail, road, waterways, electrification projects, irrigation projects, housing for the economically weaker section, water supply, pipelines, transmission and other government buildings from conducting social impact assessment (SIA), taking consent of the affected people and ensuring food security.
• The central provision of obtaining 70 per cent and 80 per cent consent of the affected families for PPP projects and private projects, respectively, has been removed as per this Act.

• Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act (CNT act) is a significant act for the tribal population of Jharkhand.
• The Act came into force on the 11th of November 1908.
• It was first published in the Calcutta Gazette.
• It received the assent of the Governor-General on the 29th of October 1908.
• It prohibits the transfer of tribal land to non-tribals and protects community ownership.
• The act is listed in the Ninth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Hence, it is beyond judicial review. 
• This Act is applicable in North Chota Nagpur, South Chota Nagpur and Palamau divisions, including areas under several municipalities and notified area committees.
• Section 20 of the Act- Effect of acquisition of occupancy- right by landlord
• Section 21 of the Act- Rights of occupancy raiyat in respect of use of land.
• Section 40 of the Act- Conditions of enhancement of rent of non-occupancy-raiyat.
• Section 41 of the Act- Grounds on which non-occupancy-raiyat may be ejected.

• Father Peter Shanti Navrangi wrote the book 'Jesu Charita Chintamaine' (Biography of Jesus Christ) in Nagpuri in 1963 CE.
• He was a writer and wrote novels in many languages, but primarily in Hindi and Nagpuri.
• He also wrote 'Prem Lahiri', 'A sadani reader', etc. in Nagpuri language.
• Sadri (known as Nagpuri) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar.
• According to the 2011 Census, there were approximately 5,130,000 native speakers of the Nagpuri language.

• In the British period, a special tax was levied on the farmers of Singhbhum on rearing silk and lac on such trees as Kusum and Asan.
• The tax was called DalKatti.
• British rule significantly affected the livelihood patterns of the Singhbum Hos, particularly the complementary roles of the forest and settled cultivation in their economy.
• Tasar silk is mainly reared in the forests on Arjuna and Asan trees.
• They asserted their right to special control and dalkatti on only certain commercially valuable products of time such as wild tussar cocoons, Kusum, Asan, etc.
• Tasar rearing attracted a royalty of eight annas or 50 paise for every 100 cocoons reared, and thus, most of the rearers had moved to village sites for rearing, where they paid a Dalkati tax of Re 1 per family.

Stephen Marandi is a tribal leader from Santhal Pargana.

• He is the leader of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and currently is a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly.
• He worked on the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand and was the pro tem speaker of the fourth Jharkhand Legislative Assembly.
• He has been MLA 7 times.
• He was given this award on the 16th Foundation Day of the Jharkhand assembly.

In India, Reserved forest or protected forest means the forests that have been targeted to be protected to some extent.

• They come under legal jurisdiction.
• The term was first used in the Indian Forest Act 1926.
• Forest cover in the Jharkhand state is 23, 553 km² which is 29.54% of the state's geographical area.
• The breakup of forests can be summarized as reserved -18.58%, Protected Forests - 81.28%, and Unclassed Forests - 0.14%.
• Top forests in Jharkhand are Betla National Park, Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, and Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Out of the total forest area in Jharkhand, about 18% of the area is classified as reserved forest.
• 79% is a protected area and 3% is an unclassified area of forest in the state of Jharkhand.
• 76% of the reserved forest lies in West Singhbhum and Palamu districts.
• 5 districts namely Hazaribagh, Giridih, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, and Palamu account for 75% of the protected forest area.
• In terms of area under forest cover, Jharkhand ranks tenth among all states of India.
• The state with a geographical area of 79,714 km² constitutes 2.42% of the country’s area.
• The total recorded forest area of the state is 23,605 km² which is 29.61% of the geographical area of the state.
• Of the total recorded forest area, Reserved Forests constitute 18.58%, Protected Forests 81.28%, and Unclassed Forests 0.14%.
• As per the India State of Forest Report, 2017 published by the Forest Survey of India, forest cover in the state is 23, 553 km² which is 29.54% of the state’s geographical area.
• The total forest and tree cover put together, constitutes about 33.21% of the geographical area of the state.

• Jharkhand CAMPA stands for Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority.
• It was established in 2009.

The aim of this organization is to protect the natural forest covers which have not been categorized into any of the categories like protected forest cover, forest cover in Wildlife sanctuaries or parks.
As per the guidelines if the area is covered by 33% of the forest then it is considered that the trees are sufficient so the aim of this organisation is to maintain the 33% forest cover on any land.
It works for the afforestation of trees.

Bokaro Steel plant is located in Bokaro, Jharkhand and was the fourth public sector plant which was established in 1964 with the help of Russia.

• It was later merged with SAIL.
• It is the first Indian steel plant which has been built by using maximum products like equipment, raw material and other things from India itself.
• Currently, it operates 5 blast furnaces and has the capacity to produce 5.8 MT of liquid steel.
• The major products of this plant are hot rolled and cold rolled coils, galvanized clean sheets, hot rolled plates and sheets.

• The largest producer of lac in Jharkhand is the Khunti district.
• The scrutiny of data showed that the Khunti district has the largest producer of lac to the tune of 28.9 percent of total lac production of the state accompanied by Simdega (24.5 percent) and Gumla (17.9 percent).
• The constructive growth rate in lac production was recorded in Gumla, West Singhbhum, and Simdega to the tune of 21.6, 6.32, and 28.9 percent per annum respectively during the last four years.

The highest negative growth rate was analyzed in Latehar (-69.3 percent) district.
The relative analysis of the last three and four years period growth rate showed that the Gumla district recorded positive growth with a slight shortage (24.9 to 21.6 percent).
Simdega district directed very good reformation (-21.2 to 28.9 percent) and another district that recorded good improvement was West Singhbhum (- 17.3to 6.3 percent).

• According to Sec. 33 of the Santhal Paragana Tenancy Act, 1949, settlement of wasteland is liable to be set aside if not cultivated within 5 years.
• Settlement of wasteland responsible to be set aside if not cultivated within five years.
• In the event of any land settled as predicated not being brought under cultivation within a period of five years from the date of settlement.
• It shall be kept open for the Deputy Commissioner on an application made by a jamabandi raiyat, the village headman, mulraiyat or the landlord, as the case may be, to set aside the settlement and to make such resettlement as is permissible under this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santal Parganas.

Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act enacted in 1876 had been passed following the Santhal rebellion in 1855 against feudal land tenure systems of the colonial government.
The 1876 Act prohibits the sale of Adivasi land to non-Adivasis in the Santhal Pargana region along Jharkhand’s border with Bengal.
The amendments will affect not just 22 Adivasi communities living in Jharkhand, but other economically poor social groups.

Premlata, who is being supported by Tata Steel is also the first person from Jharkhand to go on an expedition to Mount Everest.

• She is also the country's oldest woman to scale the world's highest peak, Mt Everest.
• She is the first Indian woman to scale all the seven highest Continental peaks of the world.
• She was awarded Padmashree by the Indian government in 2013. 

• Soleman Murmu is the author of the drama "Koche Kadba".
• Some other prominent dramas and their author are as follows -
  • Chimpus haram – Pani pinto
  • Tala go ak’ rua- Pani Pinto
  • Darege dhan – Pt. Raghunath Murmu
  • Sansar Phend – Sadhu Ramchand Murmu
  • Birsa Bir – Lal Tudu

• The Sohrai festival in Jharkhand is celebrated on the next day of Diwali to glorify cattle or animal wealth. 
  • Sohrai is a winter harvest festival and one of the most important festivals of Santhals in Jharkhand and West Bengal.
  • It is associated with the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and West Bengal.
  • It is also called the animal or cattle festival.
  • It is celebrated by Prajapati, Kurmi, Santal, Munda and Oraons among others.

• The families who cleared jungles and prepare lands for plow were known as Bhumihars.
• Bhumihars are a Hindu caste majorly found in Bihar (Including the Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand.
• The Bhumihars claim to have Brahmin status and are also referred to as Bhumihar Brahmin.
• In Bihar, they are also called Babhan and they have also been called Bhuinhar.
• In popular narratives about their origin is that they belonged to a low caste tribe called "Bhuyans" who gained land and perverted themselves as Brahmins when faced unequal treatment at the hands of sacerdotal authorities.

The Bhumihars played a major role in organizing peasant, leftist, and independence movements since the 1910s. 
In 1914 and 1916, the Bhumihars of Pipra and Turkaulia fought against indigo cultivation.
When Mahatma Gandhi initiated a satyagraha against indigo cultivation in Motihari in 1917, a number of Bhumihar intellectuals joined the protest.
These included famous personalities such as Shri Krishna Singh (or Sinha), Ram Dayalu Singh, Ramnandan Mishra, Shilbhadra Yaji, Karyanand Sharma, and Sahajanand Saraswati.

Robert G. Mugabe

• Robert G. Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who performed his duties as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.
• He worked as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017.
• Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he recognized as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.
• Mugabe was born to an underprivileged Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia.
• He got his education at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare.
• Mugabe even served as a schoolteacher in Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana.
• After making anti-government comments, he was guilty of sedition and imprisoned between 1964 and 1974.

• The prestigious BAFTA Award for the Best Actor in a leading role has been awarded to Daniel Day-Lewis.

BAFTA Awards:

• The EE British Academy Film Awards or BAFTA Film Awards are organized in a yearly award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.
• The ceremonies were originally held at the flagship Odeon cinema in Leicester Square in London.
• Then after it held at the Royal Opera House from 2008 to 2016.
• Since 2017, the ceremony has been organized at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
• It was first awarded in the year 1949.
• The 74th Edition of BAFTA was held on 10-11 April 2021.

• China does not share its border with Bulgaria.

China:

• China, officially known as the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia.
• It covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres.
• China shares its borders with 14 Sovereign Countries.
• They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. 

• The 47th Jnapith Award winner Pratibha Ray writes in the Odiya language.

Pratibha Ray

• Pratibha Ray is an Indian academic scholar and writer of Odia-language novels and stories.
• For her role in Indian literature, Ray received the Jnanpith Award in the year 2011.
• She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2022 in the field of Literature and Education.
• She was born at Alabol, a desolate village in the Balikuda area of Jagatsinghpur district formerly part of the Cuttack district of Odisha state.
• She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991.
• Her first novel Barsha Basanta Baishakha (1974)  was a best seller of that time.
• Her discovery for a "social order based on equality, love, peace and integration", continues, since she first penned at the age of nine.
• When she wrote for social order, based on equality without class, caste, religion or sex discriminations.
• The specialties women have been prosperous with should be provender further.
• Her 1st Novel Barsha Basanta Baishakha was a best seller.

• Infrared radiation
  • Infrared radiation is used in the remote control of a television.
  • Infrared radiation, that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that extends from the long wavelength, or red, end of the visible-light range to the microwave range.
  • Invisible to the eye, it can be detected as a sensation of warmth on the skin.
  • The infrared range is usually divided into three regions: near-infrared (nearest the visible spectrum).
  • Its wavelengths are about 0.78 to about 2.5 micrometers (a micrometer, or micron, is 10-6 meters); middle infrared, with wavelengths 2.5 to about 50 micrometers; and far infrared, with wavelengths 50 to 1,000 micrometers.
  • Most of the radiation emitted by a moderately heated surface is infrared; it forms a continuous spectrum.
  • Molecular excitation also produces copious infrared radiation but in a discrete spectrum of lines or bands.

Protein

• Proteins are the fundamental building blocks of our body.
• They are major complex macromolecules or bio-molecules which perform a major role in the functioning and regulating of our body cells, tissues and other organs in the human body.
• They are also used in giving strength to our body in producing hormones, enzymes, and other metabolic chemicals.
• They are also bewildered in the functioning and regulating of our body cells, tissues and organs.
• Proteins are made up of amino acids, arranged into different groups.
• These fundamental amino acid sequences are specific and their arrangements are controlled by the DNA.

Rich Sources of proteins are

• Dairy Products - Milk, Yoghurt, Cheese
• Poultry - Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Emu
• Fish and Sea food - Fish, Prawns, Crab, Lobster, Mussels, Oysters
• Nuts and Seeds - Almonds, Pine nuts, Walnuts, Macadamias.

• Brass gets discolored in the air due to the presence of hydrogen sulphide.
• It is due to the presence of the mixture of hydrogen and sulphide that makes Brass discolored.
• Hydrogen sulphide is the chemical compound having the formula H2S.
• It is a colorless chalcogen hydride gas with the peculiarity of the foul odor of rotten eggs.
• It is poisonous, corrosive, combustible, and flammable.

Properties of Hydrogen sulphide

• Hydrogen sulphide is often generated from the microbial breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen gas, such as in swamps and sewers.
• This process is commonly called anaerobic digestion which is done by sulphate-reducing microorganisms.
• H2S also generates in volcanic gases, natural gas, and in some sources of well water.
• The human body generates small amounts of H2S and uses it as a signaling molecule.

• From the given statement the commitment of the present government is provided.
• It cannot be concluded on this basis that the former government did not do anything serious about the development of its people because the work of the previous government is not discussed or suggested in the statement.
• Again, the given information need not imply that the government is not going to work seriously for the development of the urban people. This is not indicated anywhere in the statement.

Hence, none of the conclusions follows.

• 6 * 2 + 4 = 12 + 4 = 16
• 16 * 2 + 8 = 32 + 8 = 40
• 40 * 2 + 12 = 80 + 12 = 92
• 92 * 2 + 16 = 184 + 16 = 200
• 200 * 2 + 20 = 400 + 20 = 420
• 420 *2 + 24 = 840 + 24 = 864

Therefore, 96 is the wrong number present in the series.

• L + 2 = N - 4 = J
• R + 2 = T - 4 = P
• F + 2 = H - 4 = D
• N + 2 = P - 5 = K

The correct answer is NPK.