PRACTICE QUESTIONS ABOUT "NITI AAYOG"

1. Think - tank of Government of India that replaces Planning Commission of India is...

1) NITI Vakya

2) NITI Vajpayee

3) NITI Prasasthi

4) NITI Dharma

5) NITI Aayog

2. NITI Aayog stands for......

1) National Institution for Transition India

2) National Information for Transforming India

3) National Institution for Take India

4) National Institution for Transforming India

5) None

3. NITI Aayog come into effect from....

1) 1 April 2015

2) 1 April 2016

3) 1 March 2015

4) 1 January 2015

5) 25 Dec 2014

4. The NITI Aayog headed by....

1) President of India

2) Finance Minister

3) Minister for Planning

4) RBI Governor

5) Prime Minister

5. To reflect changes required in India's governance structures and provide a more active role for the state governments in achieving national objectives, NITI Aayog initiated. Its Vice Chairman appointed by .....

1) President of India

2) Vice President of India

3) Finance Minister

4) Home Minister

5) Prime Minister

6. Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog is...

1) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

2) Arvind Panagariya

3) Abhijith Sen

4) Amartya Sen

5) None

7. NITI Aayog has been tasked with a role of formulating policies and direction for the government and serving as a think-tank, which will have Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Present CEO is....

1) Arvind Mayaram

2) Rajiv Meharshi

3) Sudha Pillai

4) Sindhushree Khullar

5) None

8. NITI Aayog will have full time members. It will have how many part time members selected from leading universities research organizations and other relevant institutions in an exofficio capacity?

1) 4

2) 6

3) 8

4) 2

5) None

9. An Economist Bibek Debroy and V.K.Saraswat were appointed as full-time members of NITI Aayog. Who is V.K.Saraswat ?

1) former DRDO Chief

2) former ISRO Chairman

3) former Finance Secretary

4) former Defence Minister

5) None of above

10. Maximum of how many Ex-officio members selected from the Union Council of Ministers to be nominated by the Prime Minister in NITI Ayog?

1) 12

2) 7

3) 4

4) 10

5) None

11. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu and ........... were made ex-officio members of NITI ayog.

1) Tribal Affaris Minister Jula Oram

2) Rural Development Minister Chaudary Birender Singh

3) Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh

4) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

5) None

12. Roads and National Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani and ...... were made Special invitees to the NITI Aayog?

1) Law and Justice Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda

2) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar

3) Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot

4) Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu

5) None

13. Planning Commission was the centre-tostate one-way flow of policy, where as NITI Ayog is a genuine and continuing partnership of states. NITI Ayog depends on how many pillars of Effective governance?

1) 7

2) 5

3) 10

4) 8

5) 12

14. NITI Ayog will have .......... comprising the Chief Ministers of all the States and Lt. Governors of Union Territories.

1) Presidium

2) Co-ordination committee

3) General Committee

4) Governing Council

5) Administrative Council

15. Regional Councils will be formed to address specific issues and contingencies impacting more than one state or a region. They are headed by......

1) Governor of the state or Finance Minister of India

2) Chief Minister

3) Chairperson of the NITI Aayog or his nominee

4) President of India and Governor of state

5) None of above

ANSWERS:

1-5, 2-4, 3-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-2, 7-4, 8-2, 9-1, 10-3

11-3, 12-3, 13-1, 14-4, 15-3