Om Birla becomes first Lok Sabha Speaker in 20 years to be re-elected as MP
👉 Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla won the Kota parliamentary seat by a margin of over 41,139 votes, thus becoming the first presiding officer to be re-elected to the lower house in 20 years.
👉 In 2019, BJP's Birla, Lok Sabha member from Kota, was elected Speaker. In 2024, Birla retained the Kota parliamentary seat by defeating Congress's Prahlad Gunjal.
👉 The last Lok Sabha Speaker to be re-elected to the lower house was P A Sangma, who was the presiding officer of the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. Sangma, then a member of the Congress, was re-elected from Tura in Meghalaya in the 1998 Lok Sabha elections.
👉 Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla won the Kota parliamentary seat by a margin of over 41,139 votes, thus becoming the first presiding officer to be re-elected to the lower house in 20 years.
👉 In 2019, BJP's Birla, Lok Sabha member from Kota, was elected Speaker. In 2024, Birla retained the Kota parliamentary seat by defeating Congress's Prahlad Gunjal.
👉 The last Lok Sabha Speaker to be re-elected to the lower house was P A Sangma, who was the presiding officer of the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. Sangma, then a member of the Congress, was re-elected from Tura in Meghalaya in the 1998 Lok Sabha elections.
🕸The credit-deposit ratio (CDR) is a financial metric representing the percentage of loans a bank has issued relative to its total deposits.
🕸Calculated by dividing total loans by total deposits and multiplying by 100, the CDR offers insights into a bank's lending practices and risk exposure
🕸This ratio indicates a balance between the bank's lending activities and its available funds, ensuring liquidity while promoting lending growth
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🕸Calculated by dividing total loans by total deposits and multiplying by 100, the CDR offers insights into a bank's lending practices and risk exposure
🕸This ratio indicates a balance between the bank's lending activities and its available funds, ensuring liquidity while promoting lending growth
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Once complete, these expressways will significantly improve connectivity and accessibility in Bihar.
The travel time savings and smooth traffic flow will boost tourism, agriculture and industrial growth across this belt.
Although land acquisition poses challenges, cooperation from local communities will help realise this infrastructure priority for Bihar.
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The travel time savings and smooth traffic flow will boost tourism, agriculture and industrial growth across this belt.
Although land acquisition poses challenges, cooperation from local communities will help realise this infrastructure priority for Bihar.
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Social Audit is the critical assessment of government programmes and activities by the community with active involvement of the primary stakeholders
How it aids in good governance:
🕸️reduce corruption
🕸️monitoring and feedback
🕸️accountability and transparency
🕸️encourages community participation
🕸️empowering marginalised
🕸️policy evaluation
🕸️strengthens local government
Issues in social audit:
🕸️rules not followed
🕸️not institutionalised
🕸️apathy in implementing agency
🕸️no incentives to participate
Way forward:
🕸️support of implementing agencies
🕸️using management information system(MIS)
🕸️civil society participation
🕸️role of media
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How it aids in good governance:
🕸️reduce corruption
🕸️monitoring and feedback
🕸️accountability and transparency
🕸️encourages community participation
🕸️empowering marginalised
🕸️policy evaluation
🕸️strengthens local government
Issues in social audit:
🕸️rules not followed
🕸️not institutionalised
🕸️apathy in implementing agency
🕸️no incentives to participate
Way forward:
🕸️support of implementing agencies
🕸️using management information system(MIS)
🕸️civil society participation
🕸️role of media
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🕸Kosi river is suitable for coconut cultivation.
🕸It is estimated that nearly 50,000 hectares of potential area in Bihar is available for coconut cultivation, mainly in North Bihar under irrigated condition.
🕸Coconut Development Board aims to equip the coconut farmers in production, processing, marketing and export of coconut and its value added products thus making India the world leader in production, productivity, processing for value addition and export of coconut.
🕸Bihar belongs to nontraditional coconut cultivated area and special focus is being given for development of coconut sector in the state.
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🕸It is estimated that nearly 50,000 hectares of potential area in Bihar is available for coconut cultivation, mainly in North Bihar under irrigated condition.
🕸Coconut Development Board aims to equip the coconut farmers in production, processing, marketing and export of coconut and its value added products thus making India the world leader in production, productivity, processing for value addition and export of coconut.
🕸Bihar belongs to nontraditional coconut cultivated area and special focus is being given for development of coconut sector in the state.
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By which one of the following Acts was the Governor of Bengal designated as the Governor General of Bengal?
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54%
The Regulating Act of 1773
3%
The Pitt's India Act
5%
The Charter Act of 1793
38%
The Charter Act of 1833
In the federation established by the Government of India Act of 1935, residuary powers given to the
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8%
Federal Legislature
59%
Governor General
24%
Provincial Legislature
8%
Provincial Governors
In the context of Indian history, the principle of Dyarchy refers to
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12%
Division of the central legislature into two houses.
6%
Having two sets of rulers, one in London and another in Delhi.
79%
Division of the subjects delegated to the provinces into two categories.
3%
None of the above
When was the monopoly of China trade lost by East India Company?
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26%
1813
74%
1833
0%
1838
0%
1860